It's been a fantastic week in Florida!! We had a ton of service opportunities those week, which has been nice because we haven't had many service opportunities as of late. Like a lot, pretty much like one big project a day.
I'll start with the best one: we got to help out at the MISSION OFFICE!!!! The office senior couple called us up one day and asked if we could come by and help out with Christmas decorating and putting together somethings for the departing and arriving missionaries. But we got to help set up the office tree!!!! 
That was pretty fun. With that and the new light the world video and just light the world coming up in general I've been so excited for Christmas!!! Not because if the presents or the trees or the music (even though all of those things can be pretty cool) I am so excited to celebrate the birth of our Savior, and to remember that he came into the world to teach the gospel and to perform the atonement all for us. So that we could all one day return home to our Heavenly Father.
We also helped this older member in our ward take all of her Christmas things out of storage and set up her Christmas tree and nativity sets, it was a pretty awesome, Christmas is the BEST
on a less Christmassy note we helped this lady clean her house and she was kinda a hoarder. But that strengthened my testimony that material things dont matter and that Christmas is so much more than things, so much more than boxes so much more than bags so much more than packages and tags - the grinch.kinda made me want to throw our all my stuff and be a minimalist
We also helped Beverly clean her house which was pretty fun! And a rather convenient way to teach her because she loved to talk and so we listened to her while we cleaned up her house and by the time we were done cleaning she had said all she wanted to say and we were able to teach her a lesson and give her a Book of Mormon!
We were unable to meet with Chigonum this week (he was sick) most of the people we've been with have either just recovered from being sick, or are sick
We had our last lesson with Mark this week, in which we referred him to the YSA elders
We taught Tiptap again this week and had a really good lesson on prayer and listening to the voice if the spirit.
I think that's all the main things that happened this week, this one's super scattered because I only had a lil bit o time to write this week because we have Zone P-day, we played capture the flag and gator ball 
My favorite thing i read this week was a talk by Richard G Scott called 'Using the supernal gift of prayer' it's so good!!!! I love the power that prayer had, everytime we pray we are communicating with the creator of all things. And as we pray he will listen to and answer ALL of our prayers. It made me think of this section from the Bible Dictionary section on prayer
"Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made conditional on our asking for them. Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings"
I know that prayer works, every single time I've gone through challenges on my mission I have always found solace in prayer.
Thank you all so much for all your love, prayers and support!
Love Sister Maller
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