Week 17
Hey guys! Merry week before
Christmas!
I hope you don't question
the title too much. Let me put it clear: you cannot milk a chicken.
This week has been pretty
great. We have done quite a bit of tracting, and given away quite a few copies
of the Book of Mormon. It's really weird to have a dinner appointment every
night, but I'm getting used to it. Can't complain!
Our buddy Braydon is
getting really close to baptism, we have 4 meetings to cram into the next week
and a half, so it'll be fun! Last Tuesday we taught him the commandments using
hand gestures, and he actually did really good. We got a text from his dad
(former investigator) this morning saying he wants to meet with us again, which
is super exciting!
We had Christmas Conference
on Wednesday, and it was really great. There were several really great musical
numbers, and a lot of fun activities for us to do. We surprised President
Pattison with a song called The Standard of Truth, and he cried a lot, as did
the rest of us. It was very spiritual. We played the left and right game with
our white elephant gifts, and I ended up with a game called bean boozled.
We had dinner with the
Rodriguez family that night, and they were super fun to be around. They're from
Guatemala, and they looooved to tell us about it. We showed them the Because of
Him video, and afterwards what Grandma Rodriguez said really struck me. "I
know Him." She said. She testified about her personal relationship with
Jesus Christ, and I believe that is something we all ought to have, not just at
this time of the year. Before we got all spiritual, we were talking about tres
leches cake, and she made a joke about The three different kinds of milk in
tres leches. Disclaimer: Chicken milk is not a real thing!
We had a ton of dinner
appointments this week, and one Sunday night with the smith family
(including Sam Smith hehe), and they invited a ton of their friends. It was
awesome to see their missionary efforts, and to read some of their Calvin and
Hobbes books!
We went on exchanges Sunday night
to last night with the Gateway YSA Elders, Elder Neild and Elder Christiansen.
We had a lot of fun and a lot of good talks with people while we had Elder
Christiansen with us. We also got told were run by Freemasons and a bunch of
other stuff. Got cussed at a few times. Good fun, life of a missionary.
We had a sweeeeeeeet lesson
last night with a Brazilian lady named Marcella, it was a little difficult
because she has a hard time expressing herself in English. But luckily we
brought a member with us, who not only knows Portuguese, but learned Portuguese
because she was given a Portuguese Book of Mormon. So that was pretty cool. We
showed her the Restoration video in Portuguese, and she really enjoyed it. Her
and her husband Moacyr really really like us, so hopefully they continue to
listen to us!
This morning we were able
to do some service (on a pday, like whaaaat?) for something called the
Christmas Elves, they gather together food and presents, and they deliver them
to underprivileged people in the area. The Beaumont sisters also came to help.
So we got to load up the deliverers cars with boxes, then they drove off and
delivered it. There were about 85 houses they loaded out to, so that was cool.
The whole time we were doing it, I had an undeniable happiness inside. I
couldn't stop singing dancing and smiling. Serving people is great.
I want to wish y'all a very
merry Christmas! This is probably the most opportune time of year for us to
share the gospel and be prime examples of Christlike Service. I want to
challenge you all to do your best to do some random acts of service, and make
somebody's day.
I love you all! Keep moving
forward!
Love
Elder Trevor J. Wells
Pictures:
1. Elder Chamberlain and I
at Christmas Conference
2. Elder Haymore, friend of
Jordan Stone from Arizona
3. Elder Haymore and I
again
4. My white elephant gift,
there's two flavours for every colour of bean, one good, one bad. for example:
Spoiled Milk and Cocount, chocolate pudding vs canned dog food. Pretty nasty.
5. Merry Christmas to my
family:)
6. Left to right, Elder
Johnston, Elder Woodruff, Me, President Pattison, Sister Pattison at Christmas
conference
7. Elder Carter Hinton from
my MTC district
8. A sick totem pole we
found
9. Little Christmas sketch
I did at church last week
10. Elder Woodruff and I at
the Country Christmas lights
11. Elder Wells, Elder
Woodruff and Elder Johnston
12. Merry Christmas
Y'all.
13. Our neat little
Christmas tree, with all of Elder Johnston's Gifts
14. I met a famous little
snowman
15. The picture doesn't do
justice, but Brother Townsend looks like Chris Pratt
Videos at country
Christmas, and Elder johnston doing weird things with his eyes
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