Monday, December 19, 2016

This week was our Christmas conference! We sang lots of songs and ate lots of food and got to sit on Snow Clause's lap! Haha it was crazy!

This week I've been able to learn so much more about our savior and his birth. It's an amazing opportunity to learn more about him as we focus on such an important time in history. I love Christmas so much because of all the lights and the fun things that happen and being with family and friends. But the amazing thing about a mission is that I get to purely focus on the true meaning of why we have Christmas.

It's a huge blessing!

We also got to help "clothe the naked"! We helped a man wrap his fake Christmas tree in Saran Wrap because it was going to start raining and he didn't want the lights to get ruined.. so that was an adventure!

There's also this super cute house here in Boulder City that has the biggest mini nativity scene I've ever seen! It's so cool! And one of our members had A REAL CHRISTMAS TREE!!!  It's from Oregon too! So we took a selfie with the tree because it is from our home :) Hope you all have an amazing Christmas! I love you all!

Love

Sister Eliza Hopper

Monday, December 12, 2016

Have I mentioned how much I love Christmas? I love it!!

This week was full of Christmas fun! We have been using the #LIGHTtheWORLD initiative and it's been amazing! If you haven't seen it yet go on to Mormon.org and start watching the videos and doing them! It's awesome!

I stood on a basketball

We took a selfie with a creepy fake santa

Went to Searchlight again to spiritually feed the hungry!

I got a cute hat from a member and was really tired so I pulled it over my face...

Yesterday at church they had the members in the Eldorado Valley ward come up during sacrament meeting and share their favorite Christmas hymn and then we would sing it! It was really amazing and the spirit was so strong. Christmas on the mission is hard because of being away from home but I'm seeing the blessings of being a missionary during this time. I love it!

We got to celebrate one of my favorite peoples 90th birthday! Velda! 

I don't have a lot of time this week so I'm sorry! But hopefully the pictures will make up for it!

A picture of me with anger animal(surprise) 

We made Brother Grinch (Brother Werly) a new investigator!

Merry Christmas! Love you all!

Love,

Sister Eliza Hopper

Monday, December 5, 2016

Merry Christmas!! This week Boulder City blew up with Christmas and it was awesome! The parade went through town and the streets lit up! We also set up our Christmas tree and even have a couple presents in front of it already!

If you haven't already seen them the church has put out some really awesome videos for the Christmas season! #Lighttheworld there's a video for every day until Christmas! It shows us different ways we can be more like Christ and it's been an amazing blessing to see others take on that challenge and it's been a lot of fun putting it into our work!

Sister Foulke and I are having lots of fun and enjoying our time here in Boulder City :) it's really awesome having an Oregonian companion especially during the Christmas season!

Sorry this is short but I don't have a lot of time this week! Love you all!

Sister Eliza Hopper