Well it is Christmas on Thursday! :) I hope you guys all have fun, but remember the real meaning of Christmas :)
Monday-Got my hair done, a cute lady in our ward wanted to for Christmas! Got our car washed, cleaned and got some things done. Went to dinner at the Hargadons who I absolutely love! They are so great. Then we had FHE at the Curridens. Fun, productive day!
Tuesday- Met with Kathy and Kiel, watched a Mormon message and just talked with them. They are leaving to Texas for Christmas so they will be missed. Met with Ron, interesting lesson because he is so smart he looks at the bible as a fable story? Idk how to explain him. He is very nice, but hard to teach that is for sure. Saw Paul and Melissa. They are awesome!! I love them. Talked about the Book of Mormon which is always good. He still isn't so sure about it. We went caroling/tracting for about 1 and 1/2 hrs. We would sing silent night and then after they were happy with that we would share a He is The Gift card and talk with them. It was fun. Ended with my favorites, Connor and Savannah. They are doing soo good it makes me happy.
Wednesday- Zone Conference!!! We had training's for about 3 hrs which were awesome. The Assistants gave one, and then President who I love to hear speak because he is so in tune with the spirit and just awesome. We had skits.. Ours was not super funny but kind of? They video it and all of them and I think we are going to get it on a video, hopefully. It was the 12 days of Christmas missionary style. We played dodge ball which was fun and then watched.. FROZENNN. So good to watch it and sing haha. We then had exchanges, I stayed and Sister Lundberg left. Sister Bohannon stayed with me. We did tracting across the street and it was awesome. We had like 3 return appts. and 3 potentials. We had delicious dinner at a members house, the Malaskys. Then we went and had an appointment with Ramiro. He is so awesome! such a solid, kind guy. We also are over on miles and needed a park day, so we were able to do that today, where we didn't use our car. It was great.
Thursday- Had a not too successful day, met with Rex and Adam, went to Candler with the sweetest lady ever in our ward, Sister Nelson. She drove us to contact some referrals and none of them were home. But it is okay because it was still fun. We went to contact some potentials and they weren't home.. had dinner at the Hood's. Super fun family. Pretty wild kids but fun haha. Drove to Waynesville to get Sister Lundberg back :)
Friday- Weekly planning. Nothing crazy. Met with Ryan and Sarah! I love them! We taught the Plan of Salvation and it seemed to go well. We asked them to come to church, they are both open, but he is the youth minister soo not as likely. It will be something we are working towards :) Taught with David Baxter and he is now dropped. He said he may stop in at church sometime but he just wasn't open sadly. Also lost another investigator who said no thanks.. Had dinner at the colliers, sweetest old peeps ever. Then went to Candler and. MIRACLES. We went to meet a potential family, Krystal, she was happy to see us and her daughter and we are going back and teaching them Tuesday! So happy. Then went to see another potential investigator and her husband answers the door, who I hadn't met last time, turns out he read the Book of Mormon 16 years ago and was reading it, because we left her with one and are meeting with them Tuesday too!!! Soo cool. Some other cool things with people happened as well.
Saturday- Jammed packed day! Hopefully 6 appointments and.... we had one of them turn out :) Such a great day ha.. Mission life.. So we did lots of finding, hoping to find people. We found a girl that had mormon cousins, she was cute. Also another person who had read the book of mormon which was cool. Another one who had been to temple square. It is cool when those things happen. But yea pretty bummed about all those appointments.. But Amanda was the one appointment that stayed! She was one we met on Wednesday and were hoping to have a return appointment. Anyway she was way sweet and said she would come to church! YAY
Sunday-So she didn't come to church.. SOO bummed. We had no Investigators at church.. A lot were out of town for the Holidays but still. We had an alright day, nothing too crazy. But we had dinner at the Hedgecocks, 8 little kids, and it is my FAVORITE going there because it reminds me of my fam when we were little. We went Caroling around there neighborhood and passed He it The Gift cards out, so cute. They are great.
I am soo grateful to be able to have this time to focus on the true meaning of Christmas. It is for sure hard being away from home this time of year, but with such awesome members it makes it much better. I love the gospel, and am so grateful for the knowledge I have that Jesus Christ gave us all the ultimate gift, the Atonement. It is hard, but also the best thing, being able to be out here spreading that knowledge to others. I love you all and hope you have a fantastic Christmas.
Love, Sister Farmer
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