Missionaries

One of the thing we love the most living here in Harrisburg,PA is the opportunity we have to invite the missionaries to our home for dinner or just to visit and share a message... it feels like living in Chile. The missionary work and the life we have as a members of the church, "Mormons" here its so much as in Chile. We are the only "Mormons" in our neighborhood. Mimi and Kayla are the only members in their school. Kyle and his classmate and friend Chad, who is in our ward too, are the only "Mormons" in the whole Widener School of Law. So, each one of us have had share our testimonies and gospel with somebody here who is not a mormon. My girls have had share the Book of Mormon and their testimonies with their classes in sharing time. Its amazing to see how this has helped their testimonies to grow.
Our Ward has a huge area, maybe 3 or 4 towns... we have so many opportunities to share the gospel. We , as a family, have been sharing the gospel and inviting everybody in our neighborhood to activities and sacrament. Dominique and Kayla invited their friends to church and to our Family Home Evening. They like to come to church with us and participating in our FHE. I have sended the missionaries to some of our friends here, and have had some discussions with the missionaries in our home with some of our neighbors too.
We had 6 missionaries for Christmas dinner. We had 12 or 14 having dinner with us once in a cold rainy day. I remember that time specially because my girls were so happy when all af them decided to sing for us as a family. So there we had a choir of angels singing beautifully just for us. The Spirit was so strong that day I remembered my heart full of gratitude to my Heavenly Father because my girls were able to feel it too!.
The Missionaries were always so nice to our girls and they just adored them and played with them all the time!.
The other thing the girls loved to do was making jokes on the Elders whenever we could. One time I called the missionaries, they were invited for dinner to our home that day, to let them know that we were gonna have a "delicatessen" from my country as a dinner... it was gonna be..."ROASTED PIG HEAD"...mmmmm....YUMMY!!. It was so funny to see their faces when they got home and dinner was ready!. We all had a good laugh about it!
Their favorite thing for dinner was "EMPANADAS". They always asked me to make them...every single week they wanted to come and have Empanadas. There was no missionary who didn't learned how to make EMPANADAS...and eat them!
We had so many nice memories about missionaries in our home. We have our "regalones" too...like, Elder Stefenson..."ffff stefefeson", Anderson, Reyes, and so many more I can't remember all their names...however we will have those memories forever and I hope my girls will never forget the memories and the feelings they had when they were in our home!.
There's different pictures from diferent times here