Well if you didn't hear already it snowed in Texas haha! It was super awesome! We woke up in the morning and there was an entire inch on the ground. Everyone here was going crazy and we had a lot of fun with it.
Wednesday was a lot of fun because it was one of our Zone Leaders birthdays! Elder Storey! I love that kid so much and we had a party up at one of our Mission Presidents counselors home (President Ross).
Thursday was visit the children for Light the World and we were able to go and give a little kid that has been sick a blessing! It was really wet and cold and the humidity just BITES you down here. At least it is not August tho...... We went out and biked for a bit and invited some cool peeps to our Ward Christmas party. Then we were too dang cold so we started creating our masterpiece, The Jesus Loves you sign. We bought all of the lights and wire and graphed it all out on some graph paper. It actually took quite a bit of work but it looks so awesome now and we have had people taking pictures by it and telling us how awesome it is so we are putting some Light the World cards down by it!
We also made a spreadsheet of our entire area, basically Elder Jones is a genius when it comes to stuff like that so he made one when he was in Jennings and then we copied it for our ward. Basically, it tells the names, contact info, the last time we came in contact with them, if we have taught them about the Doctrine of Christ, their activity status, if they got affected by Harvey and then there is room for any comments. But it has been super helpful and we are going around trying to figure out the status of every single person that is on our roster and hopefully find some part member families or reactivate some and then they might have some friends that are not members. Member missionary work is by far the best.
Friday was the day it snowed and our ward Christmas party!! It is finally feeling like Christmas is coming up!
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| Elder Larson, Santa, Elder Jones |
Saturday, we got fed breakfast by another ward because Elder Jones had to do a baptism interview. We found a bunch of extra teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley books and the zone leaders said we couldn't get a potential investigator with one. So, we went into Dollar General and we gave this Lady the book and we are going to go back and teach her sometime. *dab*
The members here are too good to us, we got fed lunch and dinner by the members and then they came with us to teach a lady we found named Judi! She is super cool and I'm glad we finally got one of our set appointments to work out.
We have our own Christmas in the Grove type of thing but it is on Christmas Eve and I will be performing. Sister Ashworth's daughter that is in high school (Hannah) has a boyfriend that is not a member and he is super good at the saxophone. So, for Christmas eve sacrament meeting he is going to perform a special musical number and I will accompany him! I also signed up to play at our zone Christmas conference so that will be fun.
I love the envelopes you guys have been sending me! It is fun to be able to open something every single day! Also, before I forget I had a lady come up in our ward and thank us for sending the quilts so tell grandma for me! I think they are going to send some thank you notes home. A lot of the kids that they gave these too didn't have any heat in their home and not very many clothes and it got pretty cold this week so they appreciated it a ton!
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy these pictures this week because there are a lot of them. I’m so grateful to be on my mission and be able to teach people here that Jesus really does love them. Love you all and have a Merry Christmas!
Elder Cameron Larson
Mom’s Questions
What have you done for Light the World this week?
So mostly for light the world we spend doing our light display and putting some pass along cards down by it. We were also able to give a kid a blessing which was super cool because we gave it to him on Thursday and by Friday he was running around and having a good time at the ward Christmas party
Tell us about your new companion
Elder Jones is super smart and is really good with computer stuff.
He wants to go into electrical engineering.
He is really funny and we love to joke about the weather here because that is all that everyone talks about down here. First, we would always say “Man it has been pretty cold” and without fail everyone talks about how the humid cold is so different. Then we say “At least it isn't August though” because everyone talks about that too and we think it is the funniest thing that every single person down here in Texas will go off about that.
So, we both love to make jokes and laugh a lot!
When is your zone Christmas party?
December 19th
Where will you be for Christmas?
For Christmas, I will be at the Nations to skype since they will let us and then probably go to President Ross’ home with all the other people in our district
What time will you call? Skype or Google Hangout?
I’m really not sure about the whole skype info and I will find out more about that this week!
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