Dear Family and Friends,

Happy New Year!! Hope you enjoy celebrating a new start!!

It was great to celebrate Christmas this week. Already though it seems like that happened a very long time ago! So weird how time flies but at the same time so much happens that the beginning of the week seems like it happened a month ago!

This was a really, really good week. We were able to teach a lot and even surpass some of our goals for the week! We were also able to see miracles. One day we prayed to know where we should go to find, and both of us received the impression that we should go to a certain street...we were able to talk to several people there that seemed really interested. The best part was that we knew that that was where we were supposed to be at that time, for whatever reason. Another day we went to St. Helena, a little town in the far-away part of our area and were received into the home of a woman when we knocked on her door. She is amazing and definitely someone who is searching. And we found her because Heavenly Father knows her and loves her and He directs us his servants. That same day (actually right next door) we knocked on the door of a young boy who used to meet with the missionaries. He has since been in contact with us and asking us lots of questions...he's searching for truth too, as well as his cousin. Again, Heavenly Father helped us to be there in the right place at the right time to find them.

I'm so grateful for the blessing to be serving here in Napa, seeing and helping the area strengthen, and being a part of the miracles that are happening in our mission.

Also, I forgot to tell the family when I talked to you on Christmas that my mission president said to tell you hello and that he is grateful for the sacrifice you are making as I serve here in the mission. He said he'll take good care of me!!! And he is. 

Anyway, love you all so much! Enjoy making some goals to start the new year--remember that it is through the power of Christ that real change can come into our hearts and into our lives. I know that power is real and am so grateful to have it sustaining me as I serve here in Napa.

So much love,

Hermana Alicia Brighton