Tuesday I was on exchanges in the Harper Park ward with Sister Caldwell. I love her so much. She is the sweetest missionary in the whole world. She is such a good example to her companion. We had some stellar lessons with investigators, and we found new investigators!
Wednesday- WE GOT SUPER GOOD SUSHI on Wednesday
We had a huge meeting on Thursday that started at 8:30 in the morning and we didn't get home till 6:00 because we hit traffic. It was an experience. They mostly talked about weekly planning. Our weekly planning this week took forever because we had to do it the way they trained us. Usually it takes us like three hours but this went LONGER! The hardest part is that they asked us to train the rest of the mission on how to do weekly planning by doing it with them. So I have to do a billion weekly plannings with the other sisters :(
Friday was Sister Watson's LAST DAY! We just did normal missionary work and said goodbye to some of her favorite people.
Saturday was the worst-best day of my life. We had to get up really early to take Sister Watson to the airport. The night before we stayed up past curfew to do her hair and we watched Mr. Kruegers Christmas. IT WAS SO SAD! Then we got to do service at the Catholic church. We helped put together food boxes for low income families, and it was pretty fun. We worked for a few hours and then in the evening we had the ward Christmas party. It was amazing, it was one of the better ward Christmas parties I have ever been to. They started with a tour of the nativity. They had people in enacting the shephards, angels, wise men, and the stable scene in Bethlehem. Then they had a whole big spread of Mediterranean food. We took some plates to MIA investigators after the meeting! We also found out that another one of our investigators might want to be baptized!!!
Sunday, our mission president showed up at church and he talked to our investigators about baptism. They had a really good conversation! Our mission president is very impressive in gospel conversations with investigators and tends to be able to commit them to baptism in a powerful way.
We really wanted to find another new investigator on Sunday, so we prayed before we got out of the car, and knocked on a lady's door named Shirley's. She answered the door, let us in, and started talking to us about her family. All her children had passed away and so had her husband. She was recently injured so she couldn't put up any Christmas decorations, so we offered to help her, and we asked if we could come visit her on Christmas day. She was ecstatic. I almost started crying for this sweet blessing. What a tender mercy that God allowed us to find her!
We really wanted to find another new investigator on Sunday, so we prayed before we got out of the car, and knocked on a lady's door named Shirley's. She answered the door, let us in, and started talking to us about her family. All her children had passed away and so had her husband. She was recently injured so she couldn't put up any Christmas decorations, so we offered to help her, and we asked if we could come visit her on Christmas day. She was ecstatic. I almost started crying for this sweet blessing. What a tender mercy that God allowed us to find her!
I hope you all enjoy this week before Christmas and make sure to take time to reflect on our Savior!
Love, Jes
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