Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Week 32: MERRY CHRISTMAS ... (ya filthy animal) hehe

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

Hope everyone is enjoying the cold back home. Please enjoy it for me cause I miss the snow like crazy!! it doesn’t even feel like Christmas here... it’s a lot colder than the summer time, but to me, feels like a cool summer day back home.

Anyways, this week was suuupppperrrr busy filled with different activities with the ward and helping them prepare everything for the Christmas activity we had on Friday. The activity was really good but our ward has a huge problem with starting things on time. Like it’s really, really bad. It was supposed to start at 7 but they didn’t even say the opening prayer until 9:20 which was when we left to go back to the house. And they continued until like midnight I’m pretty sure. It was a real bummer bc I really wanted to go to a ward Christmas party, but didn’t get to this year. But next year when I’m back home, I’m definitely going to our home wards party!

Yesterday we had the Christmas party with the WHOLE mission. All of the missionaries were there so I got to see a lot of my friends from the MTC and different missionaries that are no longer in my zone that I got to know. It was really great and what we did was each zone sang a musical number and for our zone, I was chosen to direct the choir. Man, let me tell you. I have no idea how Janna Bullough does it.  Man, does she make it seem easy. HA!, no. Janna has a gift I’m telling you, to be able to direct a choir. Even though I was absolutely terrible at doing it, I totally felt like Janna Bullough and I totally felt super cool doing it. Haha

Afterwards, we had our lunch (which is the big meal here) and it was soooooo goooooddddd!!! The most Americanized lunch I’ve had since coming here. It was first a Cesar Salad and next we had turkey with mashed potatoes and veggies and gravy! It was amazing! And then for desert was like a chocolate cake/brownie with cookies and cream ice cream on top. Ah, it was to die for! And then afterwards, the ppl that didn’t have to travel far to go back to their areas, left to go sing and contact ppl in different parks in the city. We had to go early, which was a bummer, but before we did so, President Garcia gave a blessing to every single one of us that was waaayyy powerful. I felt the spirit sooo strongly. He said something that I would like to share with you that is really special to me. In his blessing, he promised that if we focused and desired to become more like Christ (we are focusing on doing this as a mission) and that if we strived every single day to do so, that my posterity would be blessed as faithful servants of Christ and will be able to withstand the power of Satan. And that they will be the generation blessed with the desire to be like Christ and will work to prepare for the coming of our savior. Boy is that not like the coolest blessing ever??!!

Anyways, that was my week I had all summarized. I’m going to close for now cause I’m running out of time and want to send pics. 

Love you allll soo much and I can’t wait to see all of your beautiful faces on Thursday!!!

Hermana Perryman

(Hannah wasn’t able to send pictures this week)

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