This week we had our mission christmas conference. It was
really fun. We got to watch the christmas devotional, the RS made lunch for us,
and we had a reading of the living Christ which included some clips from the
bible videos. We also had a white elephant gift exchanges with the other 100
missionaries that were there and I got a giant paper clip. Our mission
president gave a talk about our mission vision for next year which is
"discover what we can do." I love this because I think that I am at a
point on my mission where I know how to do missionary work it is just pushing
to become better and to see what I can accomplish. Also our mission has had 81
baptisms this month which is the most we have ever had in one month so far in
this mission!
We taught the first lesson to the blake's this week. They
agreed to get baptized but wouldn't set a date yet. They are starting to love
the book of mormon! They said they would start trying to read every night and
to have family prayer. They seemed a lot more committed than last time so that
is good. The holidays make it so that we won't see them for a while so
hopefully they will get right back into everything afterwards.
The ward christmas party was this week which was good. There
is a part member family whose dad isn't a member but comes to church and we are
going to start teaching him after the break!
Also this week we went on splits with 2 young women. It was
a lot of fun and the girls really liked seeing how missionary work was since
they are thinking about going on missions. One of the girls named Kaitlin is a
recent convert and I think david usevitch taught her. We also went to visit a
less active in the ward (sister curtner). She spent the whole day making
tamales so we helped her wash her dishes and then she gave us a bunch of
tamales and mexican food to take home. They are soo good!! And sister Le
doesn't like mexican food so more for me. :)
Other than that this week was a little slow since a lot of
people are gone for the holidays. Church on sunday was really good because they
had a musical program where they just sang a lot of christmas songs.
I am so excited for christmas!! Only 2 more days!!! Love you
all!!
-Sister Washburn
-Sister Washburn
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