Hi everyone! Hope y’all had a fantastic Christmas!!
So this week we got to go caroling a few times! We went
with Sister Whitaker and the Elders around to some of our Less actives and
Recent Converts. We sang, read the Christmas story, and then sang again!
It was lots of fun and everyone was super happy to see us! :) We also got
to go caroling on Christmas Eve in High Point and we had a wonderful time!
The weather was perfect and everyone got soo excited! We sang two songs
and then shared “He is the Gift” with them and then one of us bore testimony
about Gods love for them and asked them to share He is the Gift cards with
others :) one of the Elders had brought a speaker he hooked up to his
i-pad so we even had great sound quality for He is the Gift! Best moment:
so we kept asking people who they knew we should go caroling to and they sent
us to a house where they were clearly home, but were down in the basement.
So we were like, oh well, we will go somewhere else. But one of the
elders was like No! They need this! So he goes over and knocks on
their downstairs window and motions for them to come upstairs! ha-ha!
Probably freaked them out a bit! But they loved our singing! (Okay,
so I must admit, our singing started out horrible! There is this one
elder who is just so enthusiastic but cannot sing! Our first song sounded
awful! But we got better when we did more reverent songs and kept
reminding everyone to sing quietly and reverently.... :) Anyway, Christmas was
really fun! We had so many packages to open because the ward gave us all
kinds of useful things! (lotion, band aids, stamps, soap, paper, etc.)
So it kind of looked like a tornado!
Also, amazing moment: So we were doing weekly planning and I
am writing on our white board with a dry erase marker. And we were
talking about some of our investigators and I am messing around with the pen,
flipping it into the air and whatnot. And then I threw it too far and it
bounced off my finger, hit the couch, bounced back and hit me in the face, bounced
off the white board, and landed behind me. Yep. I am just skilled like
that :)
Anyway, our investigators are all getting better! yay!
And Milford Keller came to church!! He is the one with Cerebral
Palsy and he got the SCAT bus to bring him to church! And he loved it!
He said he is definitely coming back next week!
There was this random preacher that showed up at church
this week. Elder Kleinman and Sister Shepherd gave talks and he came up
and was kind of chastising them after the meeting.... going on about how we
shouldn’t classify ourselves as Mormon and whatnot (only neither of them
actually ever used the term Mormon in their talks...) And he was
chastising cute Sister Aagard in Gospel Principles as well. Good thing
she is just amazing and rolled with the punches! Ha-ha, only in the south
do you get that though! Random preachers showing up at church to offer
correction!
So reading the Book of Mormon is amazing! I have also
started reading the Old Testament and it keeps just hitting me over and over
how important Remembering is! When the Nephites and the Children of
Israel remember God, they prosper! When they forget God, they stop doing
the things they know they should and fall into wickedness. When we
remember, we are soo much better off! President Craven told us that
"if you read Preach My Gospel everyday, you will never fall away"
When we remember God, we remember our covenants and we remember that we are His
children. We remember this life is NOT the end! We remember that we
want to live with Him again and be with our families for forever! And
then we can remember to make choices that will lead us back to Him! As I
have been reading through the Book of Mormon this year, I was marking every
time the word remember was used and have been reflecting a lot on how important
it is to remember the spiritual experiences we have and to remember who we are.
Christ is the perfect example of Remembering: he never forgot who He was
or why he was here! I love Alma 37:45 where Alma is telling his son to
Remember. Alma knows how important it is to remember! And he does not
want his son to experience the pain of forgetting and sinning against God.
Anyway, I hope y’all have a most fantastic week!
Sending you lots of love from the Great State of North
Carolina,
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