Merry Christmas everyone!
This
week has been absolutely crazy! We had our first ever sisters' meeting
this past Tuesday. It was a blast (They used to do them before they had
the huge wave of sisters, but then there were just too many people to
get to one meeting and all this stuff so they were cancelled.) But
Sister Wakolo put one on and it was a blast. We made Christmas
ornaments, did a message circle, learned about natural skin care,
exercise, etc... it was a really awesome day! Super special just to be
all the sisters in the mission.
Then the next
day was the Christmas Zone Conference!!! AHHHH, so much fun! We had a
beautiful Christmas story reading with some hymns thrown in (I got to
play the piano! So much fun!) We learned a lot more about teaching when
you find and finding when you teach. There was an awesome talent show
and a delicious baked potato and ham dinner. (so much love and work, the
Lord and the people here love the missionaries!)
And
then we got to see a movie... can you guess what movie we saw?? ...I
really think the elders picked the movie... we watched the "Saratov
Approach"... Have you seen or heard about this movie (first of all, I
absolutely loved it, learned so much about the atonement and staying
true to God) but, it is about 2 missionaries being kidnapped...I think
there were a more than a couple of sister missionaries who went on a
little higher red alert...(lol, my companion for example, will randomly
say, "run!", I will then calmly ask, "why?"... to which there have been
several responses. But my favorite was, "there is someone just sitting
in their car, and they have been there for awhile!..." - we do that
ourselves ALL the time)
On Saturday, Geraldo
Ibarra, a recent convert of almost a year, in 7 days. went out with us
from 1-6pm. He is so awesome! Fearless in sharing the gospel and sharing
it with everyone! He is super helpful in teaching us Spanish too!
Man,
even on my mission I can't get out of special Christmas music numbers!
What is this? The hour before Sacrament meeting, President Barrientos
comes up and asks me if the missionaries can do a special musical
number, with it being Christmas and all. So we called in another
missionary from the English ward to accompany us. Right, now I am the
only piano player in the entire branch... Then we pulled in Hermana
Franklin to sing with us and we did a really pretty on the spot "Angels
we have heard on high" with yours truly doing a SOLO! Don't ask me how
that happened.... I was shaking so much! It made it really hard to sight
read the opening and sacramental hymns...
But hey, ELIZABETH came to church again with her family! I am so happy for her and the changes she is making in her life!
Yup,
some pretty awesome stuff has happened this week. We even had a lesson
with Elizabeth and we talked about baptism. She doesn't want to be
rushed into anything but she likes what she is learning. Then she
started asking when Hermana Warner and I went home, with an interesting
look on her face. I am thinking she is going to try and be baptized
before I leave (that is my prayer at least! Love that woman so much!)
Anything
else happen? Prolly, but those were most definitely the highlights. I
am working on finishing el Libro de Mormon before Christmas (wish me
luck! I am in Mormon)
It is so funny. Hermana
Warner and I share an apartment with 2 ASL sisters. This is both of
their first Christmas in the mission, and this is both mine and Hermana
Warner's second. It is just funny to see the difference in attitudes and
how giddy they get with each package and letter... and then us "older
sisters" are over here just like, I just want to go shopping when I get
home... It is really chistoso. at least I think so...
I love yall!
Super excited to talk to you on SKYPE! In a few short days!
Love,
Hermana Ives
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