Elder Dittmers Journey to New Mexico

This has been a great Christmas so far! I got a new camera so I can take higher quality pictures 

For those of you who don't know, missionaries still proselyte on Christmas day, so I'm looking forward to visiting members and talking about the birth of Christ.

Elder Oftedahl got really sick for a couple of days, so we had to stay home for a bit. I had a lot of time on my hands to read and to do some random stuff. Most of that time was spent reading and eating food. It was sort of boring, but I learned a lot of stuff from the bible dictionary!

We also have an investigator who accepted to be baptized on January 27th! Her name is Shelly Nez, and when we invited her to be baptized, she asked if her 7 year old daughter could be baptized as well. We were able to explain to her that we can't baptize her daughter until she turns 8, but that we were really excited to hear how excited she is to have her daughter baptized as well. That was quite the miracle. 

Remember that Christmas is all about Jesus Christ's birth! One of my favorite scriptures that I read recently is in Helaman 14:2-8. This is when Samuel the Lamanite preaches to the Nephites about the coming of Christ and that this event will happen in five years. There's a great song about this that is one of my favorites. I can't remember the title of it for some reason, but it goes like this:

"Said Samuel, within five years a night will be as day,

And baby Jesus will be born in a land far, far away,

Hosanna, hosanna! Oh let us gladly sing,

How blessed that our Lord was born, let earth receive her King!"

I love that song a lot, and the way it describes Jesus Christ as the King of the earth is amazing to me. Remember Christ's birth! That's the best way to celebrate Christmas!

I took a picture of our Christmas tree that Elder and Sister Buetler gave us a couple days ago, and the other picture is of my paper Christmas tree with paper ornaments drenching it so that you can't even tell that there is a tree there in the first place.

 

This tree is completely covered in notes from people and family in the Eagle Crest 1st ward.

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We had a wonderful Skype video with Isaac for about 45 minutes.  He looks great, seemed really happy and lots of laughing. 

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Photos from a member in Kayenta: