Hello!
Happy post Christmas! This week has been insane and fantastic.
First, we had a Zone Conference, set up by our lovely and extroverted mission president and wife... festivities included an ugly sweater contest, minute to win it games, and spastically competitive missionaries because this is the one thing a year they get to be competitive about ha!
We exchanged with the Hermanas in Lexington. On the exchange (I stayed in Winchester again) we met a man who is living in our neighbor's duplex while he's away and set up an appointment with him.
The next day, Sister Israelsen and I met with him. He moved here a few years ago from Nigeria for school. We honestly haven't really taught any lessons the past few weeks, but we've been studying a lot and preparing to teach. Something we've been focusing on is taking a leaf out of Elder Bednar's book and not giving someone an answer when they ask a question, but giving them tools to reach their own conclusion and be agents. There was a really cool moment in this lesson where he asked a sincere question--How can I know what God wants me to do? Instead of answering, we showed him a scripture (2 Nephi 32:5) and he pondered on it. His conclusion? "I guess I need to be baptized again, huh?" That's something we never could have helped him to understand with simply talking and explaining.
That night, we both went to Paris and stayed with the Hermanas to blitz their area. It was fun to try to understand Spanish ha! It made me realize how much harder Hermanas have to work to find Hispanics.
Christmas Eve, we spent with this absolutely wonderful family in our ward. It was so nice to feel at home. I want my future family and house to feel like home to any stranger who comes in there.
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| Martinelli's! |
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| Christmas Eve with the Morks! |
Christmas was wonderful! We got up early (teehee) to open presents under our Charlie Brown tree, then walked to church with our neighbor! He came with us afterwards to another family in our ward for games. They are CRAZY, lemme tell ya. The mom is super type A and snarky, the dad is a goofball, and then they have triplets who are a combination of those two qualities. Not to mention the grandpa who everyone teases, and the grandma who embodies a Red personality.
Sister Israelsen and I decided to show them how to play Scum. Words cannot describe the chaos, yelling, name-calling and teasing that ensued. The older ladies threw down Aces right and left, and crowns and cylinders of shame were made for the king, queen, and scum. They could possibly still be playing currently, actually.
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| King and Bottom Scum. |
Calling home was awesome! It was so refreshing to talk with everyone. Thank you thank you for all the sweet gifts and notes. They mean a lot. I feel very spoiled haha!
Love you lots!
Sister Johns
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