Merry Christmas!!!

  It's so crazy to think that I'll be home for next Christmas. And even crazier that last Christmas, I was in the MTC. Mission time is weird. Anywho, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! This is most definitely my most favorite time of the year. I first off, love snow (I don't get it this year), I love the time spent with family and loved ones, and I love Jesus Christ! It's all my favorite things in one, so I could I not love the Holidays? Today we're going to a members house for breakfast. These members are some of my favorites so I am very excited to spend the morning with them. Then the rest of the day we're just getting together as a district and playing games and what not. So it should be a pretty good day.

   This week was a pretty good one. To start, last Monday was our last day as a district before changes. So we went on a hike which we saw a lot of kangaroos, jumped a lot of fences, ate it and my leg went through a fence, and then ending with us walking throw a narrow highway going through the canyon. So you know, just your casual Monday. It was sad to see some missionaries leave, but this next district is going to be lit. 

   Tuesday and Wednesday were awesome because we biked! Haha, my comp hated every second of it. So no more biking with him. But we were able to see a lot more people because biking is heaps faster than riding the bus. Just a lot more tiring. During the week, we were able to see a lot of our indigenous friends. With that, some sad news, our friends on date for baptism moved. But some good news, we know where they moved to and now those missionaries are seeing them. Anywho, our indigenous friends were suppose to come to church, but something came up. So hopefully this next week we can work with them. Other than that, the majority of our friends were either out of town or super busy with the holidays, so we didn't have a ton of lessons, but... we had a lot of time to door knock!!! WOOHOO! And dang, was this an amazing week with door knocking. We had heaps of spiritual experiences and found so many people who have had their hearts prepared. We are very excited for the weeks to come to see what the Lord has instore for us. 

   We also had service with that one guy with all the junk. During it, I saw the biggest spider I have literally ever seen. It was huge. I not a picture, but the picture doesn't show how large it was. Also, last night, we had a Christmas Eve dinner with Tony Bright and his family. The food was way good as always, and it was fun to be included with the holiday events. 

   This season, the spiritual thought is obviously on Christmas. It's so easy to focus on the worldly things during the holidays. The gifts, the food, the parties, but why do we celebrate Christmas? Because of Jesus Christ! His name is literally in the holiday's name. So I invite each one of you to focus your holidays on him. One of my favorite family traditions is every Christmas Eve, we would read the account of the Savior's birth. It was a good reminder during all the celebrating to remember of what we actually should be celebrating. And that of course, is Christ.

   I love you all so very much, and hope you have a most amazing Christmas and a very Happy New Year. Thank you for everything. Have a super stellar week!

Hike

Doorknocking

New District

Food

Christmas Eve

Huge Spider