Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone has a blessed day!

Ojai is doing great. We saw so many miracles this week! We were able

to find one of our investigators that we had not been able to find for

a few weeks, and had an awesome lesson with him. We were also able to

find a couple of former investigators who seem interested, and invited

us back, so we are looking forward to working with them. Ojai is just

such an awesome area. There is so much work here. (Sometimes it is a

little hidden, but when we look for it, we are blessed an hundred

fold.) We are really excited for Christmas Eve and Christmas. We have

quick appointments set up with almost every one of our investigators

and less actives those days, and it will be great to share a part of

this wonderful holiday with them.

Went to the cross in Ventura last week with our District. It was so

much fun, and SO BEAUTIFUL.

The view from the Cross

Us and the Ojai Elders on Elder Jensens last night in the mission. He is a riot.

Hermana Zarate is doing awesome. As always. I love her so much. This

week we found out just how allergic to mushrooms she is. She has known

she was allergic since she was little, so she never eats them. We have

been given pizza with them on before, and if she picked them off it

was fine. Well this week, we were eating out with some members, and we

ordered a soup that had mushrooms in it. They were pretty easy to pick

out, so we figured, that like the pizza, she would be fine. She

wasn't. It turned in to a crazy night of going to get bennydryl, and a

pretty serious allergic reaction. It was actually pretty terrifying.

There was talk of going to the ER. The Elders came up from Ventura to

give her a blessing, which we were so grateful for. They gave her a

beautiful blessing of healing, and she instantly felt better. It was a

neat experience. She doesn't really remember anything from that night,

which is a bummer, because we had some really funny conversations. We

will just call it blackmail.

Frosting Cookies for DAYS

We had the chance this week to do a lot of service. One miracle was a

new investigator named Renee. She just moved here from Pismo beach,

where she had been investigating on and off for quite some time. We

had tried to get ahold of her mulitple times since she had gotten to

Ojai, but had never been able to find her. Wednesday, one of our

appointments fell through, so we decided to go and visit her. We had

just walked up to the door, not even knocked, when she opened the

door, and said, "I can't believe your here. I need your help. I was

just about to call you." It turned out that she had to have the last

UHAUL of her stuff unloaded that day. We were able to call the elders,

and get it all done. She was so grateful. After the Elders left, we

were able to stay for a little bit and help with some other things,

and talk a lot about religion and God. She was such a miracle. We are

going to be going back on Christmas to share a message, and we are so

excited about the potential she has. We were also able to do service

for a few other investigators, and it was so awesome to get those

opportunities to help build that trust and love. I love service!

Elder Jensen made us Perogis (sp?) for a goodbye gift. We ate them.
All. They were so flipping delicious!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I have a lot of pictures to

send this week, so be prepared!