Monday, December 12, 2016

WEEK #72 - Colorado Springs Mission Office

Hey Everyone! It has been another great week!
On Monday, we started our day by going to the hospital to give somebody a blessing. We went into the ICU and he looked pretty weak. But we came and helped with the blessing. Later in the day, we went and checked out some stores and then picked up some elders to play basketball with us. We went to the church to play and it was great.J It was a good all-around game and it got close between the two teams down at the end haha. Then we went to dinner with the Hess family on base and had some great homemade Mediterranean food! Yum. Later, we went over to Mike and Randi’s and helped them out with their family history. It was really cool to get them going on thatJ
On Tuesday, We had the Fountain and Colorado Springs stake Christmas zone conference. So in the morning, we went there and had a good time. Everyone thought it was pretty funny that I was SantaJ. We went to see the man in the hospital again and checked up on him. We were able to have him talk a little bit and so we shared a scripture with him. Later, we had correlation with our Ward Mission Leader and the sisters. It was good and when we came out, it was snowing! That night, we met up with Elder Henning and Elder Smith and the Mechams and they took us to Texas Roadhouse! It was great as usualJ.
On Wednesday, we got called in the morning to go and give another blessing. Sister Ramos met us there and we were able to pay a visit to her nonmember friend. We hope that she recovers well! Sister Ramos got us hot chocolate from the hospital and then we were off to MLC with all the zone leaders and sister training leaders. The council was good and it was productive. A whole new group of leaders had come and gone and I am still on the council haha. I have been to 12 MLC meetings, which makes a year total haha. After MLC, we had our interviews with President. It was good and I am very grateful for him and Sister Rehm and all they do. I invited them to my homecoming talk in CT haha. We went and met with Anthony afterwards and had a great lesson! We set a baptism date for him for the 31st of December! He is really hoping that this will change his life. After Dinner, we went and had a transition lesson with Michael. He is a person that the sisters had been teaching. He got to know us a little better when we would work out with him in the mornings. So, since he hadn’t been progressing a whole lot with the sisters, we took over the teaching. It was a great lesson and we are both excited to be meeting with him now.
On Thursday, we went to the East and North stake Christmas zone conference. It was really great. Santa again made an appearance and got a lot of pictures with Elders on his lap. Elder Stark was a good elf as well! After the conference, we met with James Lindley. He is a mentally disabled member that faithfully attends each weekJ He called us and told us that he wanted the sisters and us to come over so he could give us a present. He gave us boxes of Christmas cards that we could hand out to our investigators and stuff! It is going to be awesomeJ We went and saw Jose after that and he was on his medication pretty heavily so he was just being a wisecrack the whole time we were there haha. We didn’t have anyone signed up for dinner that night and so we went to Crave Burger! Delicious.
On Friday, we had a good zone training with the zone. Our zone was split again so there were only half the amount of missionaries there this time. After Lunch we went and saw Bobby at the hospital. He was not awake so we left him a note. We went and had a lesson with Tyler Shumway and that was great. Whenever we have gone over, his dad (who is less active) has never participated with us. He would either be on the computer or somewhere upstairs. But in this lesson, he came and sat down halfway through the lesson. It was surprising to us but it is a step in the right direction. Afterwards we went to the church to practice a song with the sisters and then we headed over to the Rodriguez home. We came home and had a late dinner and ended the night well worn out.
On Saturday, we met with President and Sister Rehm and discussed more about transfers. Afterwards, we figured out what we would be doing with the group of missionaries that would be departing before Christmas. Then, we went and met with Michael and when we showed up, He told us that he wanted to be baptized on December 19th! We are so excited for him and he is totally ready. Then we went and had a lesson with Jesse and Diana and that was really good. They are facing the usual new member adjustment but they are really excited about the gospel. After that, we went to our ward Christmas party. There was a pretty good turn out and Sister Jenkins, Sister ‘Iongi, Elder Stark and I sang ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ in Tongan for everyone. It wasn’t too shabby.
On Sunday, we had ward council in the morning and then got to church. We got to teach about the Second Coming in gospel principles class and then made lunch. We stopped by a lot of people and found a new less active member that we were able to meet with. We then went over to the Nielson’s and attempted to make gingerbread houses. It didn’t really work so we just had gingerbread and milk with our dinner. Michael and Marly came as well and it was great for them to be there. After dinner, we went caroling with the district and had a great time out in the cold singing songs. Sometimes, people would even turn us away from singing. I don’t think that many people realize that we are just trying to bring happiness into their life. There are so many ways that we can find happiness. The world thinks that happiness only comes in a few ways, but the gospel gives us infinites ways and reasons to be happy. I love this gospel and this time of year!
Thanks for all the support that you have given me and I look forward to your letters! Love you all.

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