Just Two More Weeks Till Christmas
Weeell, hello everyone. How is everyone doing? I am doing fine…just 2 more weeks till Christmas!! Just to let everyone know about the phone call…President Wallis has told us that we do what the handbook says and it says that we should only talk for 30-40 minutes. That is compared to the 1 hour, 10 minutes I got last year….ahhh…i don’t know if I can do that…so little time. I remember when Chris, Gordon and Julie called that they spoke for hours. Oh, how times have changed, that we actually have to obey the missionary rules now. Before, the rules were there but no one even followed them..even ask Gordon, he knows all about the corruption! So, this week was good, let me tell you all about it:
First…On Tuesday, we had an excellent day….taught 9 lessons. Most of them were first lessons, we did a little tracking. Wednesday was a horrible day…our baptismal date for Dec. 16th, Cleo Lee, called us and wanted to cancel the baptism cause she wants to move…that is a bummer. Afterthing seemed like it was crashing down on us. The other family, whose parents want to get baptized, cancelled on us also and now the husband isn’t sure. So, we just went out with Bob, ate some dinner at Denny’s and shopped for food for our Christmas party that we had yesterday. Thursday was a lot better day, we had our weekly planning, and visited Lenny Riggans, a english part-member who agreed to start taking the lessons from us. He is way cool, hopefully he will start having that desire to learn more. We also had a sweet dinner with the Lopez family…another part-member we are working with. Only the mom and one kid is a member. The rest still haven’t been baptized, but we will change that soon. On Friday, we did medias almost all day with Brother Owens. We drove around looking for the people who had ordered Bibles and other items. We had fun and I had lots of time to think about other stuff. It was waaaaay cold the whole day…i had a long sleeve shirt, sweater, my suit coat and another jacket on, and it was still freezing. It was hovering around 30 in the day and went into the teens during the night. With the humidity, that is super cold. So, we didn’t have a great night that I can recall. On Saturday, we helped Bob most of the day moving his brother’s things out of his house. It was a lot of fun. He had bought a trashed trailor from a baptist church for 1 dollar and then had to dragged over to his property and renovated it. Now, we are moving his brother’s stuff out of his section of the house, then Bob will take out the wall separated the two sections so he can have a bigger house. It was great fun. He calls me his “Wyoming Boy”, ’cause he thinks it’s cooler than saying that I am from Utah. He is one of those who loves the missionaries, so I am glad I am getting along with him. Saturday night was super cold also, so we didn’t have much success.
Well, Sunday was a very interesting day. I went to the spanish sacrament meeting, directing the music, blessed the sacrament, both the water and the bread and I also gave a 20 minute talk. It was a lot of fun. Then right after all of that spanish, I taught the gospel principles class in English….man I sure am getting use to changing languages…it’s a good tool to have, although sometimes I wish I could speak in Spanish all day. That was about it for church…I was a main participant…afterwards, we went over to teach Anastacia Munoz. She made some Chile Rellenos….they were soooooo goooood….I have never eaten such good food before…Mom, you would have loved them! Anyways, we didn’t have much time…we found out that she still wanted to be baptized this Saturday…sweeet! So, already knowing everything, being taught by other missionaries, we kind of quizzed her and went over almost all of the missionary lessons in 20 minutes. It was great….she knew everyone and is very ready. She kind of fell into our hands. We have only taught her 2 so far. Anyways, although Cleo Lee fell out of the picture for now, we had a special fast for her and our area after Wednesday (the bad day of the week). I believe that through our fast and faithfullness, that God has really blessed us with more success. I love being here, and I am glad I still have time in my mission overtime. After that good experience, we went to Bob’s house to have our Christmas Party…which went very well. We had a white elephant gift exchanged and I ended up getting some bungey cords…pretty nifty..huh? The part rocked, I felt I was surrounded by some of my favorite people, Bob, the Bentleys, the Owens. It was a lot of fun.
So, that is the recap of our week..I hope you enjoyed it and I hope everyone has a blessed holiday season.
Con Amor,
Elder Hardy