Baptismal Dates, 12 shirt & Facebook

Well it's Tuesday, sorry I was late writing but since we are going through facebook training here I will have P-days on Tuesday's for the next three weeks. It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas :) and last Monday was awesome! Almost every door we knocked we taught a lesson so we only had to knock on like 5 before it was time to leave but wow it was a really good start to the week! I also opened my 12 shirt from my mom so that made me super happy :) Tuesday was pretty down, people were really closed off and it wasn't anything too exciting. Wednesday was pretty slow but we were able to stop by a member and teach them and wow it was an amazing lesson. Best one with a member I have ever had. The Spirit was soo strong and it was a cool experience. On Sunday we found out that the lesson we had with them helped them out a lot more than we even knew and I know we were inspired to go teach them even though they are active members. I think everyone can use a good missionary lesson every once in a while because even if they know everything that we say, it's not us or our words teaching them. It's the Spirit and what they feel that helps them. So that was a really good experience for me to realize the importance of helping all members out and in return they help us with our work :) Thursday was really slow and hard to talk to anyone because everyone was getting ready for their worship parties for Mary. So we stopped by Paniagua to see how they were doing and answered some of their questions about prayer. Well it was ridiculous all of the huge statues and idol worshiping that we saw plus how all of them were drunk while worshiping. It didn't make sense haha This world is super fallen. But I know that this gospel is what brings TRUE and EVERLASTING HAPPINESS. Friday we had facebook training! It is super weird that we will now have an hour a day to use facebook. They want me to let you all know that I will and should be adding family and friends but I shouldn't be chatting with you unless it is strictly about missionary work. I am going to be focusing on my area but they said if there is somebody at home that is interested I can teach them over facebook and I will be probably be able to Skype them with my companion and teach them to prepare them to meet in person with their local missionaries. It got me super pumped hearing all of the success stories and everything. Also they want friends and family liking and sharing any of my posts that I their friends can see it and the hope of the whole facebook and missionary idea is to create a huge social media burst of good, uplifting posts and to share the gospel in new ways. Our mission is one of 30 in the world who has the opportunity to try it and I am super excited, we also will get our ipads or android tablets in January. Saturday we got to teach Zaira with the awesome Plan of Salvation visuals that the Hamideh's sent me. It was awesome we basically had Zaira teach her little sibblings the Plan of Salvation and we helped her a little bit. Super awesome how much she has grown in the gospel. We also had a really good gospel conversation with her dad who used to hate missionaries and there has been a huge change in his heart. He accepted a Book of Mormon and is excited to learn more. The Paniagua family fed us that night and we also got to review the baptismal interview questions with them and they are sooo ready to be baptized on January 5th!! :) Sunday we pretty sweet. we had dinner with this member Hermana Connie and she invited a friend and basically ended up teaching the Restoration, Plan of Salvation and much more during dinner haha She is an awesome member and all we did was bear testimony and invite her friend to read some of the Book of Mormon and she was way interested. It is so much easier to work with people through members friends. Too bad she isn't in our area but I think the elders in her area are going to start teaching her now. That night we went to visit Luis because he didn't come to church or the Christmas program like he told us he would. He felt really bad for not coming but he had starting reading the Book of Mormon and praying every night so that was awesome. He wasn't understanding very much of what we read so we helped him understand what he had already read and read more with him explaining it as we went and it was sweet. Then we taught him the second half of the Plan of Salvation and it was sweet, when we asked him if he would prepare to be baptized on January 12th. He said yes, I asked him why and he told us because he wants to make it back to the celestial kingdom with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and hopefully his whole family. It was so cool, he is going to be a huge example for his family and most of his family is pretty open so I think the whole family is going to have baptismal dates soon :) Well this week was awesome! Thanks for all of the Christmas cards and everything! I know this gospel is true and I am so lucky to have this opportunity to share it with others. Love you all! and add me on facebook ahha my name is Elder Nathanael Hyde :) Love, Elder Hyde