Crazy week full of miracles, home talk...and 8 year anniversary

hola como esta, padre y madre, Mi Hermana y mi hermano!! (For those of us who don't know spanish, this means...Hello, how are you, father and mother, my sister and my brother?)

Oh my P-days are too busy for me haha just so crazy. So this week was another one of those crazy weeks and man, oh man, they just kept me busy this week haha. We saw so many crazy things and so many miracles. A lot of cookies and tamales, the red hat society and a baptism. It was so crazy, and I am not going to even get into half of it. 
Felicia is one of the great miracles of the week. I felt prompted to know this area and it was not super bad, but then this one door was, oh man!! So we knocked and the grandma said, 'hi. Felicia your mormons are here' and Felicia acted like she knew us and I had never seen her before. Well, we get talking and she had pretty much been taught everything in the Irvine mission and she moved up here. She was going to be baptized but ended up moving here so we taught her twice this week and she has a date for January 7th now so that is pretty cool!!

Then Tara was our second miracle!! She was found in AG 1st ward but do to some personal issues she is coming to our ward. She is not a member but we were able to set her with a date for 28th of January and she is so excited to get baptized!!! This week was also full of tender mercies and just so many other things that it has been so crazy awesome. 

This week was also pretty hard. Well Friday was. So the departing missionaries had to share their testimonies and it was only me and I started to tear up while bearing my testimony. It sucks! Seriously, coming home does not excite me really all that much. I am more nervous and just not excited. I know that I will be able to apply my mission skills and do so many awesome things, I am NEVER going inactive, so that does not scare me. I am excited to work and give up old habits and start new great ones. I don't know, maybe because I just don't know what to expect. I don't want to be negative about going home. It will be great and I have so many journeys ahead, I just have loved my mission. Yea, so I am excited and not. That is how I feel about all that. 

Elder Routledge & Elder Shaw

We also hit 8 years as members this week, and dad hits his 2 years soon and Shel hits her 8 year soon, and Scott is just a stud ;)
It is so crazy how much our family has grown and I was really thinking about that this week. Just think how much closer we are, but mom, I fear lest you may be missing your journey because you are so focused on my journey. I love that you're my biggest fan, I just don't want you to neglect anyone else, dad, scotty or shel because of me, that's all. I just want you all to know how important you all are to me. Please know that I love you all so much and I can't wait to share with you all these experiences, but don't get lost in the world. In all things, turn to Christ and our Father in Heaven and be worthy of the Spirit. I love you all so much. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!!
Know that all of you are in my prayers
Love Elder Routledge