Christmas morning and all the gifts.
Hey everyone, Merry Christmas!
This week was a little bit of a tough one to work. A lot of people were busy with the holidays so, we had a pretty slow week. I hit 18 months in the mission, and I'm definitely buckling up because this last six months will fly. We had something super cool happen on Christmas. We were texting and calling members, and we talked to this one lady who said she was praying that we would call her. Her family was sick so we said a prayer with her. On Christmas we met up with the other Elders in our district and had a big Christmas dinner. I really don't know what else happened. We helped someone put up a swing set for their kids and that took a while. We also had a Christmas devotional in our mission each day last week up to Christmas. We had 2 different members of the 70 come and it was so awesome. One of them told us the story of his first Christmas in his mission. He read 3 Nephi 1 and talked a lot about some of the details I never noticed.
In 3 Nephi 1, all the believers are about to be killed if the sign that Samuel the Lamanite prophesied doesn't come. It's the day before Christ comes into the world, and Nephi is pouring out his soul that the sign is given. Elder Pearson said that if there was one night God should be able to not answer a prayer, it was this night. Christ was about to leave the father's presence and there were final preparations and instructions to be given. But God sent His son to answer the prayer. It was so cool learning that.
That's all for this week.
--Elder Thompson
bits and pieces from family phone calls:
LA county is finally going to be allowed to start having church again...we are on the edge of LA county and hopeful that our county will follow suite. We will be starting up our Spanish group in person as soon as it's possible.
Members dropped each companionship dinner for Christmas which was awesome! We all took our food to the church and had dinner together for Christmas.
Today it was raining, which almost never happens here, so we were able to have our district pday activity in the church. We played chair soccer and a new card game, Skull King. Apparently, my family recently started playing that same game, so I'll be all ready to play when I return!
Our washer is broken right now...for the last week. It will only fill with hot water, which isn't ideal for dark clothes, so we unhooked the hose and we're just filling it by hand with cold water until it gets fixed. Still beats the cement sink I washed my clothes last year in Mexico.
getting a little california sunshine
weekly devotional
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