Holy cow!  I can not believe that 2012 has come and gone!  It flew by so fast, and from what I hear this year is going to be a whole lot faster!  It was so good to hear from everyone on Christmas!!!  I didn't realize it was going to be SO stinkin' hard to hang up the phone!  I wanted to grab it and just keep talking!  Next call I want to do it a little different and have a short little conversation with everyone and then be on speaker with everyone.  I felt bad that I didn´t really get to talk to everyone and that I did most of the talking:-) So Hna. Marenco that lost her baby last week is doing great!  I was really trying to figure out what we could share with them that would help them.  We went over Wednesday night just after she got home from the hospital to share a message of hope and faith.  They had such a different spirit in there home that was filled with faith and hope!  It was so cool to see the difference!  I thought we were going to walk in and she was going to be super bummed out, but it was very opposite!  They are so grateful to the Lord for showing her that they can have children if they do all they can to prepare for the temple and live the gospel of Jesus Christ.  She has been told for 14 years that she can´t have children, and then they had this miracle.  They brought up the experience we had with them, and she told me she kept thinking oh yeah okay maybe in another 14 years, but then from what I found out it happened right after you guys told me that.  Then we had a lesson with them last night and the Hermano said to me that Our Heavenly Father knows what he is doing and puts certain people in our paths for reasons.  He said he had no idea why they moved here for a time and plan on moving back to Nicuragua (not sure how to spell that), but now he feels that it was because they were supposed to meet me.  They told me they will never forget me and really hope to stay in contact with where ever we go, and that I am a very special person to them.  I just wanted to cry all night last night, because it just shows me once again that although I might not be able to clearly express everything I want to, I can still show them the love of Christ by striving to have the spirit with me always.  Then this last Sunday we had a lesson with a menos activo, that only had a little while.  So we were trying to figure out what to share with her that would help (it is the Family that got offended by the other family we asked to have a family home evening with)  Hermana Cuellar (my companion) sat there looking at me, then all the sudden the scripture Mosiah 2:17 came to mind.  We talked about that and asked her what is one thing she can do to serve this week, then another thought came to mind, you need to help her do something kind to the sister in the ward that has offended her.  So that is just what we are going to do!  I was so grateful to have the spirit with me, with out it there is no way I could have come up with that. We found a 13 year old this week named Tribet that came to church with us, and seems really excited!  I am super excited about him and will keep you posted! I made some cheesy pancakes and my companions have thought I am crazy...and then they try them! TASTY!  I had a dream the other night that my companion Hna. Treviño stole the little bees off of my flip flops, and I was SO sad, luckily I still have them, but it was very funny and random.  The poinsettias here are HUGE and they have them year round, I have a picture for you but no way to load it and send it right now. Thank Brother and Sister Harrison for all of their letters I love them, and it is always fun to hear from home!  Gram and Papa thank you for your letters as well! Thank you each for all of your love and support!  As missionaries it is really cool to feel that!  KC HAPPY BIRTHDAY next week!  The big 21! Sparkling Cider here you come, woah!  Well funny story of the week, it has been so blasted cold I have been wearing two sweatshirts, and socks, but the other day when someone asked about the cold (this was still with Hna. Treviño) Hna. Treviño said she was wearing two shrits, a sweatshrit and her coat, and I said what I was wearing, but instead of saying socks I said the word for underwear.  I even knew the difference!  Maybe they all needed a good laugh, because they still are laughing about it!  Well I love you all!  Keep the stories coming!  I love hearing from you all!
Have a super Sparkly Day! And a Sparkly New Year!
SLY,
Hermana Wilcox

December 24th

¡¡¡FELIZ NAVIDAD TO ALL!!!  I am so freakishly excited that I get to talk to you all tomorrow!  Since no one e-mailed me this week,  I also get to open my exciting packages tomorrow, which is another something that I am excited about!  Well the 'end of the world' was this week.  Nothing happened in our area that we know of, we felt that we needed to stay in the main city where we live that day, so we had to change some appointments, but it ended out working pretty good.  I don´t know what you all have heard this week in the news, but yes two sisters were missing in our mission for just over a day I believe.  We really don´t know anything and probably won´t know anything, but all week long members have been calling to make sure we are okay, and people have been stopping us in the street and so forth.  It has been weird to see that even though Satan is trying to work so hard, he seems to be opening windows for us to share a message.  Wednesday night I felt super weird like something was wrong, then we received the call first thing the next morning to pray for the sisters that were missing.  We didn't even know they were in our mission, we were just told they were in Central America.  That entire day I kept thinking I know it is my last companion, I just know it is her.  The next day first thing in the morning we got a call saying that they had been found and were with President.  Then a couple of hours later our Cocinera and her two girls came over to make sure that we were okay, and just sat there hugging me and they told me they were positive it was my companion.  We have goals as a mission that we need to accomplish, because they are the goals that our Heavenly Father knows we can accomplish.  Because of that Satan is working extremely hard, that happened, there have been a lot of missionaries sick, assistance to church has been hard, and so many other things.  We just know that we need more faith than ever right now as companionship, districts, zones, mission, and from our families at home.  I  can see why the families grow and have blessings now while they have a missionary or missionaries out.  They have to exercise their faith just as much, families are a huge part of the work, and our first or one of the first messages to people is that We have a loving Heavenly Father who has given us all, especially families.  At times it may be difficult in the family, but I am so EXTREMELY grateful for the family that my Heavenly Father has blessed me with!  I honestly couldn't have asked for a better family!  I have learned to much about family here on the mission so far, among many other things, but so much centers around the family in this gospel.  I pray that I will become the best missionary, daughter, sister, granddaughter, neice, cousin, and friend that I can be.  It is going to be a rough journey because I have a lot to learn and change, but I need and want to do it.  Grandma and Grandpa, Gram and Papa, I am so extremely lucky to have you all close around me as well, to hear and see your testimonies.  I want you all to take the time and read in the scriptures, go to the temple, read talks from the leaders in the church, and read in Preach my Gospel.  So many people here don´t have a family like I have been blessed with, but I know I am here to help them realize that they do have a family, that we all have a loving Heavenly Father, and older brother Jesus Christ.  I am so grateful that we were raised in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and I truely hope that one day I will be a fantastic Mom, just like Mom and Dad have shown me. Know that I love you all, and I am SO excited to talk to you all tomorrow!  Have a WONDERFUL time with Karm and the rest of the family for me, and play a bit it the snow for me to, and eat!  LOVE YOU!  Tell everyone hello and hugs!
SLY,
Hermana Wilcox