Hey guys, sorry for not writing last week, that's just me being lazy I guess. A lot has happened in that last 3 weeks with the holidays, teaching appointments, etc. I'll start off with telling you about Christmas.
So, this time around for Christmas, our mission president wanted us to be really busy. The way he wanted us to accomplish that was by allowing us to go to member's homes unannounced and ask if we could leave a blessing on their home. It was a little bit difficult for us to grind all day since we are sharing a car with another set of Elders, but we were able to bless about 7 homes as the Cullman Area. The first house we went to was crazy. They lived way far out, like 45 minutes away from our apartment. We had them for a dinner appointment, but we did bless their home as well. They were super nice and genorous and gave each missionary a 20$ bill. Well, this family has a little boy that was a huge fan of me because he is super into super heroes. Before we left, he wanted to give me a gift and I was just like "sure man, what do ya got?" He gives me another 20$ bill that he had earned from chores or something like that. I looked at the mom and dad kinda like "uhhhhh" but then the mom said that I definitely should accept that gift. The little boy had such a kind heart and he wanted me to have a great Christmas. So so cool. My wallet is getting a little heavy now.
Christmas morning we opened presents at an amazing member family in our ward. Elder Lee's mom is a true homie and she copped all 4 Elders a buddy the elf costume set which we then wore to the member's home. It was very very funny, they were laughing super hard when we showed up. They served us French toast which is my all time favorite breakfast food, can't really complain.
New Years was kinda lame, the only thing interesting that happened is I couldn't sleep much since there was a crap ton of fireworks going off near our apartment. What happened the day right after New Years is we got put into quarantine for 10 days and this time we are being cracked down hard. No going to the Church, no hanging with the other companionship. That eats rocks. I mean, luckily it's only for 10 days but they did say something similar like that last time yet it lasted 9 months. Who knows what will happen.
Other than that, we HAD another zone meeting in person which was fine and mostly just a lot of Facebook finding. We seem to be getting left on read a lot so that's not ideal, but what can you do, right?
That's all I got. Have a blessed week.
Elder Batman Hey guys, sorry for not writing last week, that's just me being lazy I guess. A lot has happened in that last 3 weeks with the holidays, teaching appointments, etc. I'll start off with telling you about Christmas.
So, this time around for Christmas, our mission president wanted us to be really busy. The way he wanted us to accomplish that was by allowing us to go to member's homes unannounced and ask if we could leave a blessing on their home. It was a little bit difficult for us to grind all day since we are sharing a car with another set of Elders, but we were able to bless about 7 homes as the Cullman Area. The first house we went to was crazy. They lived way far out, like 45 minutes away from our apartment. We had them for a dinner appointment, but we did bless their home as well. They were super nice and genorous and gave each missionary a 20$ bill. Well, this family has a little boy that was a huge fan of me because he is super into super heroes. Before we left, he wanted to give me a gift and I was just like "sure man, what do ya got?" He gives me another 20$ bill that he had earned from chores or something like that. I looked at the mom and dad kinda like "uhhhhh" but then the mom said that I definitely should accept that gift. The little boy had such a kind heart and he wanted me to have a great Christmas. So so cool. My wallet is getting a little heavy now.
Christmas morning we opened presents at an amazing member family in our ward. Elder Lee's mom is a true homie and she copped all 4 Elders a buddy the elf costume set which we then wore to the member's home. It was very very funny, they were laughing super hard when we showed up. They served us French toast which is my all time favorite breakfast food, can't really complain.
New Years was kinda lame, the only thing interesting that happened is I couldn't sleep much since there was a crap ton of fireworks going off near our apartment. What happened the day right after New Years is we got put into quarantine for 10 days and this time we are being cracked down hard. No going to the Church, no hanging with the other companionship. That eats rocks. I mean, luckily it's only for 10 days but they did say something similar like that last time yet it lasted 9 months. Who knows what will happen.
Other than that, we HAD another zone meeting in person which was fine and mostly just a lot of Facebook finding. We seem to be getting left on read a lot so that's not ideal, but what can you do, right?
That's all I got. Have a blessed week.
