Hey homies:) I can't really even remember what happened
this week other than Christmas Eve and Christmas Day because those days trumped
everything else. I do remember that our car broke down which has
complicated the work a little bit. We are surviving though!
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| Ugly Sweater ZTM :) |
Oh wait I do remember one thing from this
week, we had ZTM on Thursday! It went really well! Elder Klunker
and I gave a training on keeping balance in our FINDing (@CEM😉) efforts. We both felt like we delivered it pretty well.
Sadly though, the highlight of the training meeting wasn't any sort of
training, it was the zone pic. We had the zone all bring ugly Christmas
sweaters to put on for the picture, and it was a hit hahaha. There were
some pretty ridiculous ones.
It's all
flooding back now, Wednesday I was on exchanges with my buddy Elder Sites, my
last companion in my old area! It was a fun day mixed with some teaching,
eating, FINDing, and running zone leader errands.
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| Attempting to make delicious Xmas cookies - not succeeding |
Now on to Christmas Eve: we were pretty much
singing for most the day. In the morning we got together with the
Greenfield/Rutherford Elders and made some cookies to deliver to the people we
were caroling to that night, it was fun. Sadly the cookies elder Klunker
and I made turned out to be more like some sort of sweet bread. We still
aren't sure what we did wrong lol. After that us and like 13 other missionaries
met up at West Edmonton Mall and flash mobbed/caroled in the 4 different food
courts and a few other places in the second biggest mall in North America (you
can only imagine how busy it was on. Christmas Eve). I don't really know
how we got roped into that cuz neither of us are singers, but it was way fun!!
Something I'll remember for a long time for sure:) people seemed somewhat
weirded out at first but then smiled and clapped for us every time.
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| West Ed Mall Flash Mob crew |
After
that we caroled to some people in our area with some missionaries in our district,
and we continued that after what surely must have been the greatest Christmas
Eve feast of all time. We are so spoiled by the members here it's
ridiculous😍. Christmas
Day the tender mercies continued: our mission president let us all sleep in
till 7:30 as a Christmas gift!!!! What?!! It was so nice😍😍😍. We are pretty sure it was all his wife
convincing him haha. Church in the morning was awesome. I really
wish we could have church on Christmas every year.
After church we Skyped
our families at our Bishops house and hung out with hem for a bit. I've
been out 15 months now but talking to my fam never gets old, love you guys:) after
skyping we went and walked around outside for an hour or so trying to catch
people outside in a good mood but there was literally like 3 people we saw that
whole hour. After that we had lunch with an awesome family and played some
games with them, and then basically did the same thing at another member's
house for supper. Once again, we are so spoiled here (blessed).
After that we finished off the night by caroling more with some dope
missionaries. This time we just went to random houses, it was amazing the
contrast in people's reactions to when they open the door to a bunch of
Christmas carolers opposed to two missionaries wanting to share the Gospel
with them haha. It was super fun and a great way to end the awesome
Christmas Day. I am honestly going to miss going caroling as a missionary!
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| Evidence of how much the members spoiled us! |
Monday was definitely a let down after the great weekend. I was on exchanges with a Chinese Elder who literally was sawing
LOGS THE WHOLE NIGHT. I got about 3 hours of sleep, and we didn't have a car or
anything to do all day. We just did finding and bus contacting all day in the
-25 :)
I'm seriously so grateful to be a
missionary. I know that this is the work of the Lord Jesus Christ and
that participating in it brings true joy:)
Elder B
Weekly Scripture: John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.
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