Christmas Time!

Hello Friends and family! Christmas is coming yeahhh boiiiiiii! Lots of good things happened this week!

On Tuesday we had an appointment with one of our most solid families. The wife is a member but the husband and the rest of the family isn't so we have been teaching them. On the way to our appoinment one of our members got us going 120 in his camero so that was sweet! The lesson went really good but the sad thing is she is really in a tight situation since her house got flooded and a member said something that kind of offended her but to make a long story short she dropped us and doesn't want to meet with us again so that crushed me. 

Bad news out of the way now on to the good stuff! We had the new McDonalds open! This McDonalds is in 3017 and man its sweet. Everyone in Vidor was there when it opened and the first 100 there got like 54 free meals so im a little bitter I didn't know when it was opening for sure...   **Side note, I had to google what 3017 is…..I thought Cameron was giving me the address of McDonalds :/   lol.**

We had our district training on Friday so the zone leaders came and taught us some stuff. We focused on finding more and so thats exactly what we did this weekend! We found a lot of really cool people and I am excited to work with them! 

We just see miracle after miracle here it is awesome! We always are just in the right place at the right time to find people to talk to so it is super awesome. This is totally the Lord’s work and I'm happy to do it! We spend a ton of time out on our bikes so I have been teaching Elder Jones how to do a wheelie and he is totally going to have it down by the end of our time together!  One funny story is how I helped my companion. So, Elder Jones hasn't been in a bike area for a bit so when he gets tired he just holds on to my backpack and I drag him and me along haha! So, I guess all of my bike training is paying off because I am able to use it to serve my companion! 

This next week with Christmas coming up I will be able to play the piano at the Christmas Eve program on Sunday so that will be exciting! And I'm so excited to talk to my family! I am not sure If I am going to email that week since we have a lot going on and I will talk to my family anyways. But I am so grateful for the gift of the Savior in my life and I know this is his gospel!

Sorry I didn't take any pictures this week since I had so many amazing one’s last week but me and Elder Jones are filming a little Christmas video and are going to put it on Facebook tonight at 6 (central time) so get stoked for that!  (For the video I had to sacrifice my bike a little bit but it is totally going to be worth it.)

**Elder Larson said in my letter to make sure everyone shares his Face Book video he will be posting later today**

It has been fun to get all of the stuff from the family every day.  Today I got the stuff from Scott and he gave me some nice Dakine stuff and it sounds like he is excited to shred the cascade ice!

Love you all and have a Merry Christmas! 

Elder Cameron Larson 

Mom’s Questions:

Do you know what time you will call on Christmas?

We are planning to call around 6 our time which would be 7 for you. President has been stressing that we keep those calls at 40 minutes at the max so I just need to make sure I am doing that.

Will you skype or google hangouts?

I am planning on using skype but I can use google hangouts or even Facebook messenger so we got lots of options if it doesn't work for one reason or another

What have you done to “Light the World” this week?

We were pretty bad at light the world to be honest this week. But our video is totally going to light everyone’s world up haha!

Where did you get the Green Christmas Tree tie you wore to your ward party?

I just found that tie laying in our apartment so I decided to wear it. There are like 100 ties just sitting in this box in our apartment so I dug through them to find it.

What have you learned from your new companion?

Elder Jones has taught me how important it is to plan more than just day to day or week to week so we are trying to put together a vision of what we want to happen these 2 transfers we will most likely do together and then work to achieve it!