Hello Lovelies! Happy
new year! Where the heck did 2014 go hey? Just a blur ha I hope you all
had just amazing Christmas'! Such an amazing time of the year!! I never
get tired of reading the Christmas Story or singing the Christmas songs.
I am so thankful for the Gift of Jesus Christ. Without him we would
have nothing.
Our week went by SO FAST.
Monday
was our Pday and we drove in to Calgary to go ice skating at the
Olympic Oval with our zone. It was a ton of fun! I hadn't been skating
in forever so I was a little rusty haha. But Sister Murphy didn't know
how to skate so we just took it easy and slowly made the loop. She did
awesome! The Whitney's took us out to dinner that night and we had so
much fun talking about their mission experiences with them. :) Bro
Whitney is our Branch Mission Leader. We spent the night in Calgary so
we could be there for District Meeting in the morning.
District
meeting was great Tuesday morning! Focusing a lot of the Restoration
this transfer :) We then made our drive all the way back up to Canmore.
We had an AWESOME lesson with David on the Plan of Salvation and brought
Sister Velma along with us. She bore the strongest testimony of the
plan afterwards and the spirit just filled the room! It was amazing even
made our investigator tear up it was so powerful.
Christmas
EVE!! We didn't really have any appointments so we went and got some
candy canes from the Dollar Store and then passed them out with
He is the Gift
pass along cards. Went pretty well! It was pretty chilly. Ha the
temperature just keeps dropping up here. Im not a fan of it ha, but the
work must go on. We had Christmas Eve Lasagna with Sister Falzon, it was
delicious!! And we read over the Christmas story with her in the New
Testament and sang hymns. It was actually a lot of fun! I love Sister
Falzon, and living in her basement...haha. We ended the night by going
Caroling with President Yawney and his family to members in Canmore. We
even stopped by our investigator Davids house and sang him a few tunes
ha he loved it. I love our branch family up here. And we ended the night
of course with me reading "The Night before Christmas" to Murph in my
Christmas eve pajamas ha.
Christmas DAYYYYY! I love
Christmas! Such a happy day! I absolutely loved skyping with the fam. It
was so good to see their beautiful faces! And hear their voices! I
can't believe that on Christmas day I hit my 15 month mark of being a
missionary! They just keep flying by before my blue eyes!!! And I have
no idea how to slow them down! We had Christmas dinner at Sister Falzons
with David too! IT WAS DELICIOUS, man I love holiday food. :) We
cracked our christmas crackers and just had a great time. Watched some
Christmas videos and then I taught David how to fill out a pedigree
chart for family history before he had to leave for work.
Friday
friday friday! AKA Boxing Day up here. I got to go on exchanges with
Sister Heslop, my trainer. I can't believe she'll be done with her
mission in 3 weeks! Felt like we both just started our missions back in
Queensland. I missed her so much! We just had an amazing time catching
up.
Saturday I took Slop up to Lake Louise for us to do
some follow up contacting from me and Sister Jones. I forgot how much
fun we would have working together ha just talked and laughed the whole
day. We met this awesome lady who was smoking outside, I walked up to
her and just started to talk, long story short she knows about mormons!
Actually knew some missionaries in the Philippines. Loves what we teach.
Ha she looked like she was gonna jump out her skin she was so excited
when we asked her if she wanted a Book of Mormon. Hopefully some good
will come of that :) The rest of our time we went up to the actual lake
to do some contacting, so many people! Such a tourist place but there
were people everywhere! Louise is Frozen right now so they set up a
hockey and ice skating rink complete with an ice castle! Ha it was so
cool! We ended our night with another lesson with David about the
Restoration. So great. He said the closing prayer and it was the
sweetest most sincere thing I had ever heard. I told him how much I
loved his prayers and he replied, "Well, you taught me!" Made my heart
happy.
Sunday was a good sunday! almost 50 people showed up to
church, only 25 actually live in our area but hey we take what we can
get ha. It was really cold that day! The kind of cold that hurts your
eyes when you go outside ha. Gotta love Canada :)
All in all
such a great week! I love being a missionary and I don't want it to ever
end. I know that the Gospel is true and that God truly is our Loving
Heavenly Father. He knows our thoughts and feelings and wants to help us
become our best. I know that Jesus Christ is our savior and that he
truly died and suffered for our sins. I know that we can be forgiven
through him. He's got our back when we feel like no one in the world
does.
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