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| Thanksgiving with Chase, MaryJane & Family |
Adios November, Adios Elder Nielson ðŸ˜
Hola everyone! Disculpe for no email last week, we had
our p-day changed to Thanksgiving! And we were too busy being stuffed with
turkey to think about emailing 😅. Hope you all enjoyed
your turkey day. Now that it's over, we can all enjoy our lovely Christmas
music without feeling guilty about it! Lol
Elder Nielson and I have been loving our time here in the
Faribault ward, and we had our hopes up to stay together one more transfer
because President was hinting at it during interviews. Buuttt, unfortunately we
woke up this morning with some disappointment to see that Elder Nielson is leaving
for Minneapolis. We've become such good friends and Imma miss him tonsðŸ˜
That means I'll stay in Faribault a little longer, which I'm happy about! I'll
update you guys on the new comp next week.
The past few weeks have been genial!! We've had some amazing
lessons this week and met a few new people. I'll just get into some highlights.
We had a good time last week celebrating mi cumpleaños! It's pretty strange to say I'm two decades old now, wow
lol. Thank you all for the wonderful birthday wishes 😊.
We got to help this older less active guy in the ward and his nonmember wife
who we've been teaching move a bunch of heavy boxes into their giant storage
unit. Then we went to MaryJane + Chase's house for a bomb stake-n-potato
dinner! Chase has still been progressing well. And MaryJane tambien! A while
back, we made them a little bet that if they read the Book of Mormon as a
family every night for a week then I would eat 30 sour warhead candies. And
they did it! We were so happy! Haha. So, I kept my end of the deal and I regret
it. My tongue was fried afterwards, let me tell ya😂
But, hey, it was vale la pena because the best part of my birthday was when we
followed up with how their scripture reading has been since then and they said
they're still reading every day! And then, MaryJane says to us, "Honestly
it's helped me so much! And guess what guys.. I've gone two weeks without
smoking!" You couldn't wipe the smile off our faces haha. That was a huge
testimony builder for me to see the power of the Book of Mormon start to take
root in their lives just as it has mine. She's made so much progress in being
active in church again and helping Chase receive the gospel!
Thanksgiving was fantastic! We took a morning hike
through these trails at a nature reserve here in Faribault. Quite refreshing!
There was this little creek with a waterfall we found, and it was all frozen it
looked pretty cool ha. We had two huge meals, one at 3 and another at 6 so we
had to pace ourselves on the first one lol. We were stuffed to the brim!! It
was an awesome day, we got to see 4 different families from the ward and we're
so grateful for their support. Since then, we've been visiting lots of families
from church because they have been starting to role out the new #LightTheWorld
initiative!! If you missed it from last year, it's an amazing way to serve
others as Christ did this Christmas season! And all it takes is one simple act
of kindness every day - from Dec. 1 - 25th 😊. I invite you all to
check it out on Mormon.org! I have a testimony of Christ-like service and I
know that God uses us as instruments in his hands to be answers to others’
prayers.
Another highlight of the week was Stake Conference. For
as long as I’ve been in the Lakeville stake, I will never get tired of hearing the
stake presidency speak - they are amazing! They talked a lot about the sacred
covenants made at baptism and in the temple. It made me really reflect on how
truly grateful I am for the covenants I've made with God. He truly does bless
us when we strive to follow him and keep his commandments! Apostle David A.
Bednar talked about it in his conference address, he says "The importance
of the exceeding great and precious promises [of God] are true reminders of
where we are going in our mortal journey and why." So many times in life
we get so caught up we forget the reason our loving Heavenly Father sent us
here, and having the privilege of renewing and being reminded of our covenant
to follow him as we take the sacrament weekly helps us remember the plan of happiness
he has laid out!
We also have a “Family Home Evening” lesson at a member's
house tonight, and they invited another family who they're really close with
who aren't members of the church. So that's really exciting! Should be a great
lesson.
Thank you all for your love and support. I'm grateful for
your kindness and examples to me. I'm so happy to be a missionary and I have a
testimony of this gospel and our Savior Jesus Christ. I know he lives! Have a
wonderful week(: cuÃdense mucho
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| Shake it like a Polaroid Picture! |
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| Family Home Evening |
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| The Real FHE Pose! |
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| Land of 10,000 Lakes |
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| Nature Hike |
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