Feliz Natal! I am very excited for Christmas. This week we had our Christmas zone conference in Recife! There are six zones, and each has a different day over two weeks, so we weren’t sure when we would get a conference. Usually I would probably want a Christmas-y thing like this as close to Christmas as possible, but I was kind of hoping that it would be a bit earlier to break up the week. But then our District leader was giving out assignments for our district meeting, and my companion was convinced this meant we would’t have it this week, because we don’t have district meetings when we have zone conferences and she figured he would know if we would have a zone conference. But then we got a text message on Tuesday during lunch saying that our zone conference would be Thursday! It was exciting.
Zone conference was awesome. I got to go to the Recife temple for the first time and loved it. It’s very beautiful, and any chance to go to the temple is special. I got to meet lots of other missionaries, which was fun.
Posing in front of the temple with the state of Pernambuco flag 
Looking at the figure of Angel Moroni? 
Houseman selfie with missionaries 
Close-up view of the Recife temple 
President Richard Houseman 
Sister Faulconer and her district
[To see a video of Sister Faulconer singing at the Christmas zone conference click on the Facebook link below and then play the video on the top right.] https://www.facebook.com/lorihouseman/videos/10156974456052431/?t
Us with the sisters from Imbiribeira
We live several hours from Recife, and the last bus for Palmares leaves Recife at 5:30 pm, so we stayed overnight with some sisters in Imbiribeira. It was fun to get to know them. This is Sister Lima’s first transfer so she is newer in the mission than I am!
Headed to Recife 