Weekly update December 12th-18th
MONDAY: first off we have a grilled cheese maker so I took advantage of that and I got the stuff to make a grilled ham and cheese. I got pepper jack with the ham you would put on a sandwich and it was soooo good!! Give it a try. We then headed off to the church and I wore the new tiger shirt I found;) on the way home to change, an investigator asked us to come over and help her move a table so we did that and it took a while since there were a few parts and her stairs are super narrow! At this time we were both in our p day clothes.... after that a member made us some food to pick up so we did a drive by and grabbed the food.
TUESDAY: I had to get pack up some stuff since I was going on an exchange. We drove over to the Caldwell chapel which is a super nice area and had language study with the Spanish missionaries. After that we had district meeting. We do role plays and practice the lessons, so it's fun to listen to the new people and their Spanish! (I know I'm still new)
We exchanged and I went with Elder Locke to his area which happened to be in Caldwell. Like 5-7 companionship rode over to a hospital and sang a bunch of Christmas songs to a room full of patients and they loved it! We also had to go to a different hospital and give someone a blessing. So, Elder Locke and I went over and then he took me to a place to grab some Chinese food. It was good! I haven't had Chinese food in so long. He showed me how he can solve a 7x7 Rubix cube in just a couple minutes!! So something about him... he is addicted to the color orange. He has ONLY orange ties. On p day he doesn't wear any other color. Everything he owns that could be orange is orange... low key it's super weird... he said he got it from his 28 year old brother who is addicted to the color green...
WEDNESDAY: We had to drive about 30 min to get over to one of their investigators and my comp and his comp were there too since my comp had to give her a baptismal interview. We then exchanged back and drove over to Pep Boys since we needed our brakes replaced. Since they said it would be a couple hours we walked 15 min over to one of the few Chick Fila's in New Jersey since we haven't had it since we left home! It was still as good as I can remember! And we accidentally had the other elders phone with us too so they had to drive over to us and pick it up... they also ate with us haha. One of the Elders it's from the Philippines so he had never had it. It's sad because he only has like 3 more weeks on his mission and he is so sad. He doesn't want to go home because he said America is so much better. He said back at home is so hard. He said he could serve a mission his whole life if he could. That evening we went to a members house and they brought an investigator and we showed a 20 min restoration video and go all his info so hopefully we can start teaching him! We also had some good Peruvian food.
THURSDAY: It started snowing during studies and it probably snowed a little less than an inch and was melted like an hour later... We brought brother Thomas back to Ronny's house to check up on his wife and Bro Thomas said her foot is doing a lot better and he told them the best way to be healed is through God. He told them, to pray daily and ask for help. (Of course, we had to translate this to them). He did a good job telling them about the gospel! We went over to Karels and had a little family home evening and answered a lot of her questions. We had a big dinner there too. Ronny invited us to come over and eat some dinner earlier that day so we went back over there and their Pastor showed up so that was a little odd but he was nice! I was soooo full at the end of this I thought I was gunna die! Two dinners! But this isn't odd in the Spanish program... to make things better... we had 1 more dinner to go to. No joke! So we headed over to a members house and had a third dinner but luckily it was just pizza so we didn't have to eat it all! It was also a super cold day!! The windchill made it 3 degrees! I have the clothes for it tho so I'll be fine.
FRIDAY: We had an all mission conference so we got a ride from the Sisters and headed to Morristown. A guy from Mesa came and talked and his son was on the giants on the NFL and won 2 Super Bowls! He was the center and now he's a Bishop! He passed around all his super bowl rings to show everyone!! We watched a little bit of a football game and he related it to a mission so that was fun! We then all got together and had an awesome Christmas meal and Elder Marz and I both loaded up on food! Elder Marz and I have already decided we will be homies when we get home! I really hope we get to be companions some day!! After eating we went back into the chapel and had more spiritual stuff and after that we got the gifts our family sent us for Christmas. I told myself I'm not gunna open any of my gifts I get from home or friends or members until Christmas Day even though I want to open them haha the strugs. It was super fun to see all the missionaries in the whole mission in one room!!
SATURDAY: We woke up to about 3 inches of snow and it snowed another inch during studies! The snow soon turned to rain and would just freeze on everything so it was super annoying! I am always the one who scrapes the ice off the car. ICK. We then rode over and were part of the English correlation and the family gave my comp and I a box of chocolate for a Christmas present! The wife took a pic of us and told us when New missionaries come she takes a pic and send it to our parents! We helped and did service with a group called Bridges and fed the hungry and gave them clothes! It was crazy and made me realize how lucky I am to be where I am. We then went over to the English Bishops house with the Sisters and had super good white people soup! I eat everything now! I don't have the option to be picky! My mom would be so proud of me if she saw some of the stuff I ate;) that evening we had the Spanish Christmas party and it was so funny how they just played English Christmas music! We had Portuguese BBQ for the food!
SUNDAY: At church I was told I had to give a talk for the first day of the year... that will be fun! Pray for me :0. After church we made cookies for Ronny and his wife. We took them over with one of our members and it went longer than we thought but we found out a lot more about them! The member really helped us out! We went over to the Passies house and got fed some more white people food and then headed over to the Alcas directly after and had to eat another dinner! There are many nights where we get fed 2 or 3 dinners! Haha it's a love hate situation with the Spanish program!!
Well next time I email, CHRISTMAS will have already passed. So MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I want you all to remember the real meaning of Christmas and to try and love and serve your family! I love you all and hope you have a great week!
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