Well, since we talked on Saturday, there really isn't a lot more to say. With Sis. Davis and Sis Miller sick, we haven't really done a lot these past few days. So, I guess the most to report was the events of our Christmas dinners.
Well, we had three dinners planned, at 3pm, 5pm, and 7pm. We thought it would be fine, but most of them started an hour late so we felt a bit rushed to not miss the next appt. and each of them served us a big turkey dinner. Wow, do we feel stuffed!! It was a lot of fun though! Each family was different in style, so we were able to get a different taste of Christmas from each family. The more I have holidays here on my mission, the more I want to make sure I invite people over whenever I prepare a holiday meal in the future. It means so much to us as missionaries when families invite us over to share in their holiday traditions. Also, I've seen how it blesses members, less-active, recent converts, and investigators to have a home to spend the holidays.
Another blessing we received was having one of our investigators text us last night to tell us that he wants to be baptized in two weeks! Yay!! We are all really excited!! That was the perfect ending to our Sunday evening!
Thanks so much for emailing a tender mercy a week! I look forward to reading them when I sign on to email. I'll be sending off an envelope today that has my Christmas card scrapbook pages, our mission Christmas gift, and a photo cd. Enjoy!
‘Make no small plans: They have no magic to stir man’s souls.’ This is the vision I have for the South. I believe that one day the South will baptize more people into the church than all other English speaking missions in the world together. There are great hosts of marvelous Baptists, and members of the church of Christ, Methodists and Catholics who are honorable people, and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and love him. As they see their church veering off to the right or to the left of these basic teachings, they will begin to search for the truth. And as pivotal teachers come into the church and have influence, we will see the time when we baptize hundreds and thousands, tens of thousands. In your day you will see a million members of the church in the South. There will be Temples plural in the Southern States. What a great call you have to serve with these marvelous people. ~Spencer W Kimball (1974)
