Christmas week!

Decorating our little Christmas Tree

So this was one heck of a week. We had 2 exchanges this week. One on Wednesday. I got to go to a place called Lucerne Valley. Its comparable to Glenwood and Hill Spring .... or Vauxhall. hahahah. In all sorts of ways: people, location, population, smell, geography hahah it was super cool. We had some awesome lessons with investigators.

At our Mission Christmas devotional

Then on Christmas Eve we had a bunch of shenanigans delivering packages (christmas gifts) to everybody in the zone. We completely filled our poor corolla... Like the whole trunk we packed tetris style and the whole back seat to the roof and I had a box of letters to be sorted and delivered on my lap and we still didn't have enough room. So we had the office elders deliver the two closest companionship's their packages. Then in the evening we saw an amazing miracle with our investigator, Taylor, in the YSA ward. We hadn't been able to get a hold of him and he wouldn't text us back. But at 8 in the evening he texted us and asked if we could meet that night, with a specific member. He lives in Victorville and we were in Apple Valley, so we weren't going to go because we realized would wouldn't have a lot of time and would probably would be late getting home and we didn't want to bug anybody on Christmas eve night. But we prayed about it and decided we needed to go, but we didn't take a member. We drove from the far end of AppleValley down a road we will call Bear Valley road( because that is what it is called) to somewhere in the middle of Victorville in 15 minutes( normally that would take somewhere along the lines of an hour.) We managed to only hit 2 red lights (there like 20-25 not even joking... its worse than Mayor Magrath in Lethbridge) on the way to his house without getting tiwi (our little car monitor that doesn't let us speed) mad at us! We had an amazing lesson with him. We then traveled home and were in before curfew. It was truly a Christmas miracle.

Christmas was awesome... we brought a companionship to our house and us and our roommates and them opened Christmas gifts and had Christmas breakfast. then we went for second breakfast with the members. then we delivered thank you's to people and skyped... then we had christmas dinner ... it was ham and potatoes and candied yams (so good) and pecan pie... so good! then we went for second dinner.. this time prime rib! so good!!

At the devotional with Elder Gunnerson

Then on Boxing day I was on exchanges with Elder Neilsen in my area. We were supposed to have a bunch of lessons... but they all fell through. So we used up a lot of backups and alot of time was spent trying to find people... and at last at 7:30 at night on the last planned backup we got in with a guy we had talked with over a month ago. We managed to teach him the restoration, even with his bird flying around the house. hahah it was great.

Elder Markham and our tree

Love

Elder Jensen

The tie I skinnied

Pretty nice now eh?