Merry Christmas all!!
This week has been long
and tiring. You might be wondering why i am emailing on a Tuesday...well I went
to the temple today!! :) It was so great! It's been 6 months since I've been
and it was awesome to be able to go and feel of the spirit.
Also: The closer it gets
to Christmas the more stressed people get and the more they don't want to talk
to us. Advice: Take time to "Pass-it-on" this season. Smile at
someone. Give a heartfelt gift to a random stranger. Buy someone's groceries.
Pass It On!!!!
Run down of the past
crazy week:
Mon: 15 Invitations to
learn.
Tues: 15 Invitations to
learn. Helping the Jarnagin's pack up and clean prior to moving. Trying to
visit people. Dinner at Tricia's and we got to meet her husband!! It was
great!!
Wed: 15 Invitations to
learn. Meeting with Alma (who had an awesome change over the past week. She's
determined to not let anything stop her from going to the temple!!) Service at
Freedom Hill. Service at New Beginnings. Service at Kruze. Chapdelaine's.
Talking to people. Meeting.
Thurs: 15 Invitations to
learn. Planning. Finding. Service at Gazebo. Finding. Dinner at Giles. Stake
correlation. Visit with Kalisa and Pres Chappell. AMAZING TALK WITH HER!! She
really oppened up and we were able to really connect with her.
Fri: Christmas
Conference with the WHOLE MISSION!! President and Sister Mortensen spoke
in the morning. We watched the nativity story. It was awesome because we read
and analyzed Luke 2 as a mission and were able to talk about it before watching
it! Lunch with letters in cute little stockings the Senior Sister's made for us
:) and then departing testimonies, musical numbers, and singing for like 2 or
more hours. Then, we all got our Christmas packages ending the conference at
like 4:30. We visited the Llewellyn's that evening for dinner and Life was
good.
Mission Christmas Conference
Sat: 15 Invitations to
learn. Garage Sales. Lunch. Family History awesomeness!! Dinner with Brice and
Kalisa. CHINESE!! It was awesome.
Sun: 15 Invitations to
learn. Meeting at 8. Choir Prelude. Church. Talking with Sis Chapdelaine.
Lunch. Finding. Finding. Finding. Finding.
Mon: 25 Invitations to
learn. Stop by the Bluebell factory for contacting/ice cream. Met some people
from Utah (Love meeting members!!). Dinner with President Billy and Beckah
Plumb. Ding-dong-ditching with them!! :) It was so fun!! Then President wanted
to show us this one house...so we turned around and came back into town and he
drove around trying to find it. He thinks we found it but we aren't so
sure...because he wasn't sure. haha!!
Blue Bell Ice Cream IN the factory!!
The Cute Blue Bell cow!!
Tues: TEMPLE!!! :) It
was so beautiful. I've missed it. I haven't been in 6 months (Since the last
time with President Pingree). Sis Carlile took us and we were able to do
initiatory and a session. I had an awesome experience at the temple doing
initiatory. I've had this name for a while...like 6 or more months...and I was
doing her and we got to the end and the Spirit just overcame both the worker
and I. Hannah was there. She was there. She was ready. She wanted it and told
me. The only information I had was that her name was Hannah and she was born
about 1678 in England. It was SO amazing.
Other than trying not to
be homesick this whole season, which I've done pretty okay at, it's been a
beautiful season. It's really the most wonderful time of the year. In
fact...it's my most favorite time.
Keep Moving Forward.
Merry
Christmas!!!
--Sister Carling
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