🦃🎄Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!!!!!🎅 🎁
Hola Familia!!!
Ha, if you couldn't tell, I love the Holidays!!! This time of year is so special, full of warmth, love, brotherly kindness, and a feeling of gratitude for all of one's blessings! :) And then you can magnify that by 10 as a missionary, and it's just wonderful! Haha. So, something awesome that we found a few days ago in the junk closet in our house (just random stuff collected over the years being a missionary house, ha) was a Christmas Tree!!!! It's pretty big too, so we set that up and it already had beautiful lights and tinsel, it looks nice:) We are going to buy some ornaments for it today, we are excited!!!
So before my excitement for Christmas takes over (haha, BEST time of the year!), Thanksgiving was super fun, too! We had lunch at our Relief Society President's house, Sister Velez. So funny, so lunch was supposed to be at 1:00pm, but the Latin timetable is WAY late, so much worse than just Mormon standard time, so nobody came but her sister and nephew at 2:00pm, and the rest of the family would be coming over for dinner at 5:30pm, haha. So funny. Sister Velez was hungry so we ate by ourselves, haha. Then we went out and knocked, asking people what they were grateful for, it was fun! Sister Chugg felt a little bad knocking on their doors on Thanksgiving, ha, but so many people were home! It was great:) Especially when they mentioned a turkey in the oven, haha, THAT only happens once a year! (Maybe on Christmas, too, I suppose[turkeys are a lot of work!]) We ate a later dinner with our members Brother and Sister Brown and their family, they feed us almost every Sunday, it was super fun! At first we weren't going to be able to eat with them because another member had asked us to eat with her family a few weeks prior, but she then told us on thanksgiving that they wouldn't be ready until late, so we called up Sister Brown (who had called us that morning to say Happy Thanksgiving! and to see if we could eat with them, again, haha) and let her know we could come over! She was happy! Haha, so cute, she is from Nicaragua:) So that was our Thanksgiving! Some of the missionaries went Caroling around 7pm, and I really wanted to go, but we were still eating, so next time for sure!
We had Zone Conference this past week, and it was super inspired! Sister Chugg and I definitely need to Role play more and practice our teaching and plan more effectively, and that was what it was about! Here are some highlights:
- Excellence isn't a part-time job, it's not something you turn on and off
- We will be accountable to the Lord for all we did on our missions(and in our lives), including the opportunities we DIDN'T take to share the Gospel, so don't let them pass you by!!!!
- A daily goal sets URGENCY
- Planning is Revelation
- Spiritual experiences we have when reading the Book of Mormon with anchor you life in the Gospel
So Zone Conference was amazing! Also, we can now listen to more than just MOTAB music on the Mission! We can listen to any rendition of the Hymns, so if you know of a good one that you love, send it to me! I'm sure I'll love it, too!
Christmas is coming, and a great way to make this season really special, is by watching the newt the World" video, and serving others everyday this month! The church has come out with a cute calendar for each day in December with a scripture and an Idea of how to serve in your community! It can be as simple as donating a case of water bottles to your local shelter! We can all make the season a little brighter as we let the Light of Christ shine though our eyes and our actions, and #LightTheWorld this Christmas!!!
I love you all, so much, and I know this Gospel is true! I know that the Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with His Authority, is only found in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This is HIS church, and we are building His Kingdom on the earth and preparing the hearts of the children of men to receive Him at His Coming. There is a little more each of us can do to be a part of the Hastening of His Work, and I encourage everyone to pray and find out from God what you can do NOW to serve Him. It will make your life better, brighter, lighter, and more full of love and of the Spirit, so "Just Do IT!"
Have an amazing week!!!!<3
Love,
Hermana Stokes
Pictures:
No one wanted to take a picture at zone conference because we like to have "A Speedy Departure" so I took one with Sister Lynch back home :)
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