merry ChristMas yall!

Hey Yall!!!

 

This is my Trainer and me and one of our Assistance. Which actually knows Kensie and Troy and that Hales family haha Elder Munns:)  First off I just wanna make sure I wish a Merry ChristMas to yalll!!! :) I hope everyone has a great Christmas day and has people to enjoy it with! I hear that it is very cold and white back in Utah. It sounds like its christmas time there haha. Here its been kinda cold but very green and brown! Also it has been kinda weird weather, on saturday and sunday it was in the 80's. Saturday night we had a tornado warnin that was pretty suviere. I dont know if yall remember 2 years ago when the tornado came through t town but it caused thousands of dollars worth of damage and they have finally just got things built back up and lookin good again. So this was worryin people but I actually slept right through the whole thing. I guess there were heavy winds, strong thunder and lightnin, but I didnt hear any of it. Woke up sunday mornin and was just fine hha. Ive come to the conclusion that if sometime bad happens here while im asleep then ill just say goodbye right now. hahah

This is our other amazin Assistant to the Prez Elder Del Francia!  But this week has been so full of miracles, parties, work, and fun! Lets start off with Monday. After we had our pday, we exchanged with the T Town Elders. Elder Morley went with me back up to North Port. Well I didnt really have to much to plan for since we dont have any investigators and all the things I planned fell through. We dropped off the sisters car at there apt then started the walk back to ours. Not only 20 steps we took an we see this older man walkin. We said hi and he stopped and wanted to talk. His name is Mike and we figured out he loves sports. So we asked if we could come to his house, which just so happened to be in our apt complex!, the next night. He said yes! Then that night we were able to get into a less actives home that ive never been able to get into since ive been here! The next day we were able to serve another less active and get to mikes house. Well the ZL's came down so what ended up happenin was that we had 2 apts at the same time. So Elder Morley and Elder Lealiiee went and talked with Mike. Me and Elder Osiemo went with our ward mission leader and saw another less active. It was such a great exchange. They said that Mike had a lot of questions and they taught him a little bit, but I didnt really think to much of it and neither did they.

Wednesday mornin we got one of the Sr Couples to take us down to Demopolis and there we would exchange again with those Elders. I would be stayin down there for the day. Well we had a good day and were able to see a lot of people. I was with Elder Oslapas and he loves to talk with everythin that moves which is good but in some cases kinda uhhh awkward i guess when people really dont wanna talk and he kinda forces it. But it was good for me cuz i got excited about sharin this with everyone not just a few people haha :) Then came the big day of Thursday! This was a multi Zone Christmas Party! It was so so good! First we started off with a devotional and spiritual side of it. Ill explain that part a little later, then we had lunch, then our talent show! Any one who wanted to could do a talent. I was so suprised at how good everyones were! That could have been somethin to put on TV! I was so impressed ive never seen such good talent from Mormons before haha but Kofi uhhh Elder Johnson played bongos. Everyone loved that, and the Sr Couples, some of them in our mission, which included Elder and Sister Elliason did a sing along while they danced haha. We did a district skit and did the 12 days in Bama. Haha it was great! But afterwards we got to watch Ephriams Rescue! That movie is so dang good! It made me appriciate the pioneer even more. But I just love how prepared and in tune with the spirit Ephriam really is. Because of that he is able to bless so many lives! What a great example he is to us in our day!

On Friday we met a lady while we were walkin home from the library. She worked at a retirement home and said that the missionaries would come and had come for years. They had stopped all the sudden and she had been lookin for us and finally found us again. We are gonna start goin over there next week and that will open up a ton of missionary opportunities! Another miracle. Then we were able to go with the Champions, a sr couple, and go to another church, where they were makin boxes of canned food an other things to give to retired veterans and there family or widows. The Birmingham news came and filmed us and even got a close up on me and Elder Bean haha it was so much fun!!

This is what our chirstmas looks like so far haha. Everyone loved my chirstmas tree and are goin out to get some of there own haha.  This brings us to Saturday. Which started off really really slow and with nothin to do. I started callin different people. One was Mike. I was hopin we could go meet him and get to know him and he said we could come over that night. The other 2 were the man from Utah, Bob, that came to the christmas devotional. He wants us back over once he gets back home in January, but still loves us and is excited. The last was a lady we tracted into that said we could come over this Thursday an teach her! Man i was so excited. That night we went over to Mikes house. It was right before our district meetin so we didnt have to much time, but we were able to get to know him a little bit. He served in Vietnam and the CEO of a pest control company. He is 73 i think but looks a lot younger. Loves football and is way into fantasy. He was born and raised up Catholic, but has kinda lost his faith in them because of a couple experiences. So he is tryin to find his faith again. He had so many questions for us so we did a Q an A session with him. Then we had to head to district meetin which was great! We talked about bein obedient to rules and set a standard of excellence for our district with some of the major rules. Then we had a little trianin on christMas which again will explain a little later. Then we played volley ball and some games and had a little bit of fun an another christmas party. But now its Sunday. Church was great and there were 2 less active families that came! I was so stoaked for that! Then right after church we went with Bro Lewis, the institute director and moved out from Highland Utah, to go see Mike. Again he had a ton of questions. None of his questions though were to try and tear us down. All of them went in with the lessons we teach, and even though we havent been able to just teach him a lesson we have been able to answer his questions and teach him that way. So we are teachin him just in a different way then normal, but I invited him to come to church and he said he would love to! So he is now our first legit investigator!!!!! Im so dang excited. He loves us and the things we have told him and is just excited about it all. Man can I just say that it feels so good to know after all our hard work that the Lord does have people prepared for us, its just in his timin that we need to figure out. An for some odd reason all the people he has prepared for me live just a few doors down! hahah. But im grateful for all the miracles the Lord has provided for us this Christmas season!

The last thing is the things we have learned in our meetins this week. President Hanks came up with 5 presents we can give to Christ for Christmas. 1. Our knowledge of his life. 2. Our Testimony of Him. 3. Our gratitude for all he's given us. 4. Our very best effort 5. Our service to our Brothers and Sisters. I know that as we do these things we can find ourselves in Christ. And somthing I trained on in District meetin was somthin yall have probably been wonderin about this whole email. Why do I keep spellin christMas like that? Well this thought hit me while we were teachin someone about the true meanin of Christmas. Lets take the word part. Christ, he is our savior and redeemer and we all need him in our lives. Mas, in spanish means more. We all need more of Christ in our lives all the time. As we give those 5 presents to Him we can find more of Chirst in our lives. We can help others have much more of Christ. Let us remember what the true meanin of Christmas is. 2 quick quotes. " May we all make th journey to Bethlehem in spirit, takin with us a tender carin heart as our gift to the Savior." President Thomas S. Monson. "We put Christ in Chirstmas when we give what He wants us to give. The gift of ourselves." The reason behind Christmas mormon message.

I love yall and hope you feel the spirit and miracles of this wonderful holiday season! An remember to be grateful and happy:)

Love Elder Hall:)