A wonderful week of some great Christmas miracles! Most of which
came from caroling, and sharing people the He is the Gift video. I
love this time of year to be able to help many people come closer to
Christ and the real meaning of Christmas. I really appreciate the
opportunity to be here in California serving as a full time
missionary. It has filled my soul with great joy serving these
wonderful people whom I have come to love. Even though I am in a new
area and with a new companion, I really do feel the love that our
Savior and our Heavenly Father have for the people here. As we were
able to go caroling a few times this week and it was great how happy a
few simple songs can make somebody.

Our mission is starting something called "Just serve" which is an
initiate to get us out serving a lot more in the community and I'm
really excited for it. We should be doing at least an hour of service
a day with a maximum of 10 hours of service a week. There have been
huge success stories in other missions and while it was hard to find
much service this week I'm really excited for it to get picking up to
show the community that we are here to serve them.

Being able to Skype home was way awesome and I love you so much
family! You guys just make me so happy and it was great to see and
talk to you all. I know that we belong to the the true church of Jesus
Christ and the He is our Savior. I love you all.
Elder Hyde