HELLOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, some people have been confused about the title of my last email. I was in a hurry and forgot to explain about the "Veniece one question please" thing. Sister Muench's first name is Veniece and when we were online chatting with people on Mormon.org; there is a guy who frequents Mormon.org chats and Sister Muench has talked to him before and apparently he always types in all caps and kept saying "VENIECE ONE QUESTION PLEASE" etc. LOL. So now that's a joke that I say sometimes to Sister Muench.

People have asked about how it works for me to be at the Oakland Temple Visitors Center and have an area that we teach in. So regarding my apartment, it's in my proselyting area (San Lorenzo) and we drive to the Visitors Center in Oakland. We have our own car (it's super nice). Our apartment is pretty big. It has 2 rooms. One where we sleep and the other has a big dresser and a huge closet that I get all to myself since Sister Muench uses the one in our room. We're mostly booked with appointments every week so we don't do a lot of tracting or knocking on doors. But we have done some; usually when when we show up for dinner at a member’s house and we’re early, we go down the street and knock on doors.

Anyway, now that we got that out of the way, on to the weekly email!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TANNER!! I can't believe you're 15!!

The San Francisco/Oakland Mission is so close to our goal of 400 baptisms for the year!! Last I heard it was 306/400 and we had 69 people on date for the ninth of December, but we just had 11 baptisms last week!! So exciting!!

Monday was super fun because we had a district activity and ate pizza and played apples to apples and I tried pupusas for the first time! And I finally met a less active lady names Sister Campbell! She has 4 cats but I couldn't pet them because I found out that Sister Muench is allergic to cats.

So on Wednesday we FINALLY got to teach our potential Investigator Deiny (the family we're teaching) and add her as an investigator! And we met with Tori (a recent convert) on Monday and re-taught her the plan of salvation. Then we had a lesson with Michael Angelo (a recent convert) and re-taught him about the importance of keeping the Sabbath day holy. Then we had dinner at the Chilton's Wednesday night and they have 6 kids! It was so fun and the food was really good :) 

I had to speak in sacrament this past Sunday on the importance of member missionary work and then we taught the lesson for the Gospel Principles class right after. But I cannot stress the importance of members being full time finders and the missionaries being full time teachers! Just imagine how many more people we could teach! And I went to Chillie Padi with a member and 2 other sister missionary companions. It was delicious!!

By the way, here’s a really amazing story! So this first grader and her dad came into the visitor center because she wondered why she couldn't go into the temple (they're non-members) so the dad took her in to learn! (How cool is that!) And Sister Madsen showed them the temple kiosk and then showed them "God's plan for the family" and she asked me and my companion to end it when the video got over. It was so cool to see how the video touched him! At the end of the Video it talked about how families are central to God's plan and he said that he moved from California because everyone is always so centered on their career and not their family and so he really loved that. We gave him a referral card to fill out and he said it's not a “no” but that he'd have to "chew" on the information that we gave him and come back with his wife!!!

That's all I have time for. Have a wonderful week!! Don't forget to #LightTheWorld!!!!