So I know I sent you a letter, but I'll do a brief runthrough of how christmas went anyways. We had breakfast and lunch at two differrent member families' houses. Basically I ate a lot, because people didn't realize other people were feeding us too... Then We had dinner with the Briggs, who we're teaching, and they also fed us a lot. I pretty much had to roll myself into the apartment that night.
At the end of this month, there is a pretty good chance that we'll be moving in with some members, so my address will change then. Also, transfers are on the twentieth, so it's possible (but not likely) that I'll be moving then, too. If you're going to mail anything that week, just go ahead and send it to the office to be safe, or to be super safe you can just wait untilI send an email sing where I am for sure. Monday would still probably be okay to mail though because the twentieth is a thursday... so yeah.
Kelly Briggs is getting baptized!!! We had a lesson with her, basically just trying to really firmly establish the Book of Mormon and the restauration of the authority to Joseph Smith, then ended with baptism. She said she'd do it but needed time to get ready... so give her maybe about a year. We told her we didn't want to push her into anything she wasn't ready for... but we knew that she could be ready by the end of the month (the date is the twenty-second). She laughed a little and told us we were crazy, but that she would pray about it. That night after she prayed she had a song pop into her head that something about don't wait until tomorrow because tomorrow might be too late, so the next day at church she said she'd do it, and now we are getting her ready for baptism :) We pretty much did little happy dances because we had been praying really hard for that, and fasting, and yeah... It's just so awesome because I know it will help her a lot. She is doing a lot for her whole family and has a lot on her plate right now, and baptism is such a great strength... then the gift of the Holy Ghost will help carry her through all her trials. I know everyone needs it, but of the people we are in contact with right now, she needs it especially and is very ready for it. It's awesome.
The lady who we were way excited to get to the christmas devotional has started dodging us. She got nervous and chickened out on going to church. Her son likes to talk to us though, and I think we'll be able to get back to her that way. A lot of other missionaries weren't able to get to her... but I have a really strong feeling that by now she has been prepared enough, and if we are persistent and loving, we will be able to help her overcome her challenges.
We have some really good things happening, and some really good people investigating. This next week, between the three wards, there are something like fifteen people who we think will come to church if we can be faithful, obedient, and hard-working throughout the week. That would be exhausting and I don't know how we'd be able to manage it exactly... but as we prayed and planned we felt good about every single one of them. So yeah, we're just going to hit it as hard as we can and I know God will help us accomplish. I've seen us be able to do so much more than we thought we could, or really should have been able, through following the spirit and just being obedient to the rules and the promptings. It's intense. Then, at the end of the day, we pretty much die in our beds. I've never been so tired in my entire life, and I've had two full days of work where I didn't sleep between them before... so yeah.
So yeah, still way behind on thank you letters for christmas... probably won't be able to write any today... we had more car problems and we have to do extra shopping, and crazy stuff all over the place. So we'll see. So yeah, if anyone get's something from me saying thanks sometime in february, it's from christmas haha... Thank you, though, to everyone for the love and support, and thanks for the Christmas things. We had a sweet little fiber-optic tree that we lit up for christmas and it was fun.
Oh, ashlie, you said something about my sugar comment and I forgot to tell you... for a while before my mission I was showing some symptoms of hypoglycemia, though i never went to a doctor to actually be checked... but yeah. I never really have sugar highs at all, I just crash really really hard, but if I don't have any sugar, I get shaky and light-headed. I try to be careful out here and it's not getting worse, but it's tough when I have to work all day, so I need to eat to have energy, but I don't have control over what I'm eating for the last meal... so it's usually more than what I need and just packed with carbs. It's not as bad as this probably made it sound.. but yeah, my companion needs to stay low on sugar too, so we're gonna work on it together.
Padre, te agradezco las historias de tu mision. Fue super chevere escucharlas. Tambien es bueno poder relatarme a las cosas asi. Es extrano ser misionero, aunque maravilloso. Si tienes mas historias, ?puedes eviarmelas? Me ecantaria, y probablemente me ayudaria tambien. !Mucho amor!
Thanks for everything!!! I love all of the love and support I get, and I'm sorry I don't have time to respond to everything. I've gotta go now to finish up our stuff today. Talk to y'all later! Love you.
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