"This is such a beautiful time of year and I have thoroughly enjoyed
being a
missionary this Holiday season! I will always remember this
Christmas and it
will always be my favorite because of the different
circumstances I was in.
Of course my favorite part of Christmas was
talking to all of you! Except
talking to Kyle, he was kind of a jerk
to me, but that's to be expected:) I
feel so blessed that we got to
talk for 2 and 1/2 hours!! Although it felt
like 20 minutes to me, it
was so great! After we hung up I looked out the
window and it was
SNOWING! I was so pumped and it was the most beautiful
white Christmas
ever:) Then a Ward member, Sister Charles, came and picked us
up and
we went to her house for dinner. We had chicken and potatoes and
lots
of vegetables with hummus. And she even took us next door to meet
her
neighbor so we could share the Gospel with them but they told us to
go
away.... But nothing could dampen our spirits for it was
Christmas!
Truth be told, I think you all missed me more than I missed you!
Don't
get me wrong, I did miss all of you so much but I was so
distracted
with all the craziness going on I hardly had time to think. And
I'll
be back in less than a year!
Well because I didn't have enough going
on, I also got really sick the
day after Christmas. My throat hurt so bad and
I got a pretty high
fever, I haven't been that sick in a long time! So
Thursday and Friday
were pretty low key as I tried to recover. But I still
have a pretty
bad and cough and cold. I blame it on the fact that 4 girls
were
living in a 1 bedroom apartment and out of those 4, 3 of us got
sick!
And Saturday a member came and picked us up and helped us move! So
we
are no longer homeless and we are in our area! We live with the
Smotzer
family. They are an older retired couple with a 6 bedroom
house, so we have
the whole basement to ourselves. We'll be here until
the 11th of January when
we can move into our apartment. They have a
daughter in her 30's who has down
syndrome and her name is Michelle!!
She is so cute and every time I see her I
think of one of my favorite
people ever, Michelle LeFevre! So we are doing a
car share with the
Elders and we'll have the car for 5 days and then they'll
have it for
5 days and so on. So we will always be relying on the members
for
rides a lot. But it feels so good to finally be in Oswego. We have
big
plans for this week and I'm so excited to go back to teaching! On
New
Years Eve we have to be in by 4:00pm unless we have a
dinner
appointment so there won't be any staying up until midnight
or
sparkling apple cider or much of anything going on here. But I
don't
really even care, when your focus is on The Lord and His work, all
of
those other "worldly" things pale in comparison. Well I hope you
all
have a great Christmas break! I love you all so much!!!!"
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