On Tuesday, I couldn't take it any
more and punched Elder Bresnahan's light's out! Haha. No, not really. But we
did take him to the dentist to get some work done and he had one of his front
teeth removed to be replaced temporarily by a flipper tooth on a retainer. He
has taken a liking to popping his tooth in and out while we're talking to
people and freaking them out. Now he really does have the right to say that all
he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth. Lol. We came back after Elder
Bresnahan's surgery was done and hit the streets to tract.
In the evening, I was able to have
another meeting as District Leader with the Zone Leaders and the Stake
President. The Stake President is super enthused about missionary work and he
is only making our job easier. It's such a blessing to be able to counsel with
him and see what we can do more to help him.
On Wednesday, I had yet another
opportunity to give a baptismal interview - my second one in the last week, and
from what my Elders have told me, the district will give me many more
opportunities for such a blessing in the near future. Even if Elder Bresnahan
and I can't personally have a white Christmas, the month of December has
already proven to be blessing us with a 'surrounding blizzard' of baptisms. This interview, I was much more calm and it
felt as though I had been doing it for years. Surely, this was attributed to
the Spirit of the Lord and not simply my own abilities or capacities. The
candidate I was interviewing was extremely prepared and I felt God whisper to
me that he was ready. What a wonderful thing.
On Thursday, we couldn't wait until
our appointment that evening with our new family we're teaching. Our
anticipation wasn't disappointed. When we arrived at the family's apartment, we
were a little uneasy in wondering if they had forgotten or scheduled a party
instead of our appointment because they had several other people over and they
were watching the football game. The visitors explained that they were just
there for dinner and that they were planning on heading out as soon as we got
there. We offered them to stay if they wanted and .. they did for the whole
lesson! It turns out the visitors were the sister and kids of our family they
too were a part-member family. After the
prayer when we were getting up to leave, the sister started asking us questions
about baptism and coming to our ward because that's where their family goes and
we gladly answered in the affirmative! We were so excited. I always feel like
I'm walking on sunshine when I leave that family's house.
Friday we had Zone Conference,
Christmas Edition. It was really neat learning about how we can teach people
the principle of repentance as a process rather than a one-time thing. It was
fun, as usual, to hook up with the missionaries I know and we had a fun talent
show and devotional with the local area Seventy, Elder Hanson to complete the
day.
That evening we traveled back through
tons of traffic and made it right on time to our Ward's Christmas party. There
was a ton of people there and we had really great food. Everyone kept telling
us that we needed to eat more cause there was stuff left. Haha. President and
Sister Morby came and we introduced them to several of the members there. Then
the next morning, the stake president and his wife had us over as a district
for breakfast. They are so great to us. I feel spoiled.
After church yesterday, I made three
pans of brownies during lunch and then we delivered them to people around the
ward while caroling with the Ward Missionaries. It was super fun.
I hope everyone has a great week and you all
give to many around you.
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