Dear Family, December 23, 2014
This week was a pretty cool one. We did a lot of tracting using the He is the Gift approach, and that took up most of the time we had. We also got a tree from the food bank, so we set that up and put our packages under the tree. We didn't have lights or very many ornaments, so we got creative. Hopefully later I can send a picture.
We are still working with Skyleur and she is going to Utah for Christmas with her fellowshipping family, so that will be cool. We have had a lot of fun helping the ward members with different Christmas activities and lots of caroling. Last night we sat on a trailer with hay bales and were pulled around the ward singing Christmas carols. Most of the carolers were ward missionaries and recent converts. It was awesome.
We had a lot of deer meat this week, one was in a spaghetti sauce, and others were in steak. I am sure I have had it a lot since I have been here, I just didn't know it. It is really good! I have always wanted to try it, and last night's dinner was amazing! We had deer steak and cilantro lime rice with an oriental cabbage salad. It was sooo good! I had 2 or 3 helpings, even though I am trying to lose weight. Haha.
Last night we had the opportunity to help the bishop take gifts around to members who were struggling in the ward. We had kind of an Angel Tree idea with a tree outside the chapel with names of people who need gifts. The bishop asked us to help him deliver these gifts under the guise of "running into Santa" and "Santa has so many places to go this year, he is using some missionaries to help him deliver gifts" It was a great thing to help with.
We also had the opportunity to teach Gospel Principles class for the first time since I have been here, because brother Doyle was sick, and brother Bujans was taking care of his sick kids. We talked about Christmas, and asked about everyone's "most memorable Christmas" Brother Katschke talked about his, when he was in school with his newlywed wife in California and the church asked the members to donate enough money to build the Newport Beach temple. He said they didn't want to donate a few dollars, but they wanted to make it a sacrifice. They didn't get anything for each other as gifts except for a painting of what the Newport Beach temple would look like. That was awesome for me to hear, because that temple will always have a special meaning to me because it was the first temple I ever went inside and did baptisms for the dead.
That's pretty much it for this week. Hope all is well, and I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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