Jan 1st & 2nd, 2017

Happy New Year!!

Brig got to email us on New Year's Day because of the Holiday the missionaries got an extra half day Pday!! This is his letter on Jan 1st-

MOMMA!!!

How was snow boarding in Utah? I'm not sure if you guys are driving home today or what? Oh and today, because it's New Years Day, it counts as a p day and I can email! So, hope you had a good time in Utah and took some sick pics to send me woot woot!!
I'm doing pretty good here, we have been knocking on a lot of doors recently. One door I went up to, this lady answered and when she did she had like toothpaste around her mouth and she was holding her tooth brush and was like, what do you want? ! and im just like, hey how's it going we're missionaries and were just inviting people to go up to the temple, she stops me mid sentence and says, are you Mormon?! I said yes. and she says Get the &$%* out of the city, kind of an interesting way to say she wasn't interested don't you think? Its pretty funny how anti some people are up here but it's good. 
On the bright side we have found a couple people we are going to start visiting and we hope things go well with them! So I dont have my camera with me today, but I am going to get on tomorrow for a little bit, I think so that I can send pics and stuff. 
How was the break, is everyone ready and happy to go back to school? Where did you guys spend New Years Eve? Hope you took some pics!!
I love and miss you all!!

And then these pictures are from New Years Eve when we watched Star Wars (that came out last year) and Zootopia which was actually super good and I hadn't seen it yet but it was fantastic! We just watched them in the Relief society room in the church with the zone, SO FUN!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Here is Brig's letter from Jan 2nd-

MOMMA!!

So I don't have a lot of time to email because its getting late for us here, but I'll try and answer your questions! 

So my goals as a missionarry this year are to get through all of the standard works, and teach some people!! 

So, for P-day stuff I can either choose to wear this flannel or a sweatshirt that has an American flag bear on it and says California, so those are my warm wear apparel options that were both free haha, so that's what you always see me wearing. Its ok to wear it that much even though that doesn't follow fashion rules but it's fine with mission rules as long as its non proselyting time. I am still wearing the sweaters I have during those other times! I love that new sweater so much its super awesome!

I am still in the Book of Mormon and haven't been studying it as intensly as I was about a month ago so I think I'll try to study that better as part of my New Year goal.  I don't have many more stories, we've just been walking and talking a lot and we have some potential investigators we are going to try to contact, so I will let you know how that goes next week if you remind me! Love you so much here come the pictures!!!

So the guy with me at the restaurant is Juan Cahua and he is one of the greatest members ever and is from Peru so he took us to a fancy Peruvian restaurant which was super awesome!

The other one is the Spanish missionaries in our district went to get chinese food at some restaurant to say goodbye to some of the missionaries leaving that transfer!