Choose Ye This Day
Date
December 26, 2016
Area
Burleson Ward
Companion
Elder Matthew Newey
Choose Ye This Day
Well, yet another Christmas has come and gone away. Crazy how fast
that goes. I had an enjoyable Christmas. The church service was
fantastic! It was a bunch of song that both the congregation and the
ward choir. A new favorite Christmas song is "While Shepherds Watched
their Flocks." It's just a cool song :)
On thursday we had a Christmas devotional. This year we didn't watch
"A Christmas Carol" so that breaks that tradition... oh well. It's not
like it wasn't a 14 year old tradition for me haha. Instead we watched
"Christmas for a Dollar." It is a fantastic movie and might become one
that I watch each year. Y'all should watch it some time.
Our Skype call home was enjoyable! I loved seeing you guys again :)
Only a few more months until we meet at SLC but it is still few months
away... Sorry we didn't talk about as many things this time.
Hailey, it still blows my mind that you're getting married in like 48
hours!!!!!!!!!!
Thiebauds are awesome. We went to their home Christmas Eve and day.
Man, it is literally a circus there haha. We got to play with some of
their new toys (a hoverboard, a unicycle, a ripstick and a drone. No,
we didn't fly the drone, we just watched it.) They were pretty
awesome!
Through a series of unknown miracles and tender mercies we found Patty
Holkim. She was taught by the missionaries in past just a little bit
so we swung by. It went from "no, i already have a church home" to
"teach me about the message that you share" in about 10ish minutes. We
showed her the Christmas video and she liked it. When the spirit was
there, we testified about how much the message we share will bless her
and her family. She said well, sit down and share it with me! She also
said that she did not have a Christmas tree and her mother was coming
into town the next day. We told her we had one that she could have so
the next day we brought her our Christmas tree. She was so thankful
for such a simple thing. But really, it is the simple things that are
the truly enjoyable things in life :)
We got a bible referral so we called and set up a time to come and
share the Bible and the message of The Restoration. We got there,
knocked on the door and got a screaming lady yelling at us telling us
that she was calling the cops, we dont speak English and said that she
called us multiple times and that she had said that she didn't want us
coming.
Victor Mendias was an investigator that the elders before us were
teaching. He is a really super solid guy. He is being baptized this
Saturday!! I don't know how I spaced that. He has been investigating
the church for about 6 months now. He will be baptized on December
31st and confirmed on January 1st. How awesome is that! Brand new year
and a fresh start! We are super excited for him.
On Saturday we also went to a members home and decorated gingerbread
houses. This is mine:

that goes. I had an enjoyable Christmas. The church service was
fantastic! It was a bunch of song that both the congregation and the
ward choir. A new favorite Christmas song is "While Shepherds Watched
their Flocks." It's just a cool song :)
On thursday we had a Christmas devotional. This year we didn't watch
"A Christmas Carol" so that breaks that tradition... oh well. It's not
like it wasn't a 14 year old tradition for me haha. Instead we watched
"Christmas for a Dollar." It is a fantastic movie and might become one
that I watch each year. Y'all should watch it some time.
Our Skype call home was enjoyable! I loved seeing you guys again :)
Only a few more months until we meet at SLC but it is still few months
away... Sorry we didn't talk about as many things this time.
Hailey, it still blows my mind that you're getting married in like 48
hours!!!!!!!!!!
Thiebauds are awesome. We went to their home Christmas Eve and day.
Man, it is literally a circus there haha. We got to play with some of
their new toys (a hoverboard, a unicycle, a ripstick and a drone. No,
we didn't fly the drone, we just watched it.) They were pretty
awesome!
Through a series of unknown miracles and tender mercies we found Patty
Holkim. She was taught by the missionaries in past just a little bit
so we swung by. It went from "no, i already have a church home" to
"teach me about the message that you share" in about 10ish minutes. We
showed her the Christmas video and she liked it. When the spirit was
there, we testified about how much the message we share will bless her
and her family. She said well, sit down and share it with me! She also
said that she did not have a Christmas tree and her mother was coming
into town the next day. We told her we had one that she could have so
the next day we brought her our Christmas tree. She was so thankful
for such a simple thing. But really, it is the simple things that are
the truly enjoyable things in life :)
We got a bible referral so we called and set up a time to come and
share the Bible and the message of The Restoration. We got there,
knocked on the door and got a screaming lady yelling at us telling us
that she was calling the cops, we dont speak English and said that she
called us multiple times and that she had said that she didn't want us
coming.
Victor Mendias was an investigator that the elders before us were
teaching. He is a really super solid guy. He is being baptized this
Saturday!! I don't know how I spaced that. He has been investigating
the church for about 6 months now. He will be baptized on December
31st and confirmed on January 1st. How awesome is that! Brand new year
and a fresh start! We are super excited for him.
On Saturday we also went to a members home and decorated gingerbread
houses. This is mine:

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