Hello All,
This Christmas was great we had a week of alot of meetings
and some proselyting time. A companion I get to tease about being trunky(he
goes home on Wednesday). Members were nice to us, Call home to Family, and Lots
and Lots of Candy and Ham. I think the ham thing is kind of funny. Who decided
that Turkey and ham were the "festive" Meats and that those are the
one you are supposed to eat on Thanksgiving and Christmas? So we had a lot of
ham this week and I want to blame them for even more sugar(I don't hate ham, I
love ham and that is the problem). Oh yeah this week was transfer calls.
and.... I will tell you throughout the letter who my new companion is. I
am staying( so if a letter has a number next to it that is a letter of his
name. Yes they are in order. i.e. (1Elder))So this is going to be fun. So first
off thank you for all of the letters and packages this week(shout out to the
Lindstroms Thank you!). I really enjoyed opening them all(maybe I opened them
on Christmas maybe not(2D). This last week had a lot of meetings. We started
out with the Zone Conference. It was really cool, President talked about how to
come closer to Christ and then We got to practice on how to teach without a
pamphlet. I think that this training will really help people with teaching more
to the needs of the person. I think that pamphlets while useful(3e) are really
for people that will most benefit from a pamphlet so that is why I like this
training. So that was awesome but what was really awesome was when the next day
we went to the Christmas program which was really cool lots of Christmas
songs and other stuff like good talks. We (4w) also did a white elephant which
was a lot of fun in the fact everything had to be under 5$ or found in your
apartment(someone got a popcorn cart... I guess they found it in their
apartment.) Then we had to drive home through traffic(Yeahhh) Who would would
want to live in California, where everything is super expensive and You have to
drive for 3 hours to get to work. I mean people have nice cars here(5i) but
come on. It really is terrible. Then we had a super awesome miracle happen to
us. Julian Got baptized!!! it was Great. and I got to baptize him. He decided
he wanted to be baptized on Monday and so the rest of the week was frantic
trying to set up his baptism in time. I was really nervous but it worked out
because he got baptized.That was the real miracle this week and it all
worked(6t) out. It even distracted me from christmas which is saying something.
And I just learned that for new years eve we are watching Star Wars:The Force
Awakens(this was a surprise) and Zootopia. This is going to be so great(7t). I
get my new companion tomorrow and I am ready for more missionary work. So Lets
Do it!!(you will only get that if you have figured out my companions name.
Elder Stokes
Here is the photo of Joshua speaking to us on Christmas. It was awesome!!
Here is the photo of Joshua speaking to us on Christmas. It was awesome!!
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