Hey
everyone,
I hope you all had a
good Christmas. Mine went well. I am now completely overrun by a variety of
junk food and sweets; my soul is happy but my body opposes.
Things are going very
well though. It was a good Holiday but it will be nice to have everyone back in
town and to resume our routine of teaching. We did have opportunities to teach,
of course, and we were able to find opportunities to give service throughout
the week. In fact, on Saturday, we helped out an elderly couple with some
branches that they had cut from a tree that was to be removed from their yard.
We helped break up the sticks and put them in the bins. We were able to have a
good conversation with them, and we received the payment of cookies and milk.
We also set a time for us to return and remove the stump from the yard also. I
have a good feeling about the future of our relationship with this
couple.
We were able to
celebrate Christmas with the other missionaries we serve with. We had a Secret
Santa gift exchange where the rule was that it had to be a homemade gift. The
Elder I was to make a gift for played baseball in high school. I found an old piñata
stick in the apartment and carved it into a small baseball bat. He loved it,
and I had a great time making it. The gift I received was not homemade, but I
still liked it. It was a box of Aloha chocolate covered macadamia nut
clusters.
Yesterday, during
church, Sister Casas (the woman that we recently baptized) received a calling
to work in the primary. We're very excited for her.
We have some neat things
coming up:
On New Year’s Day, we
will have an activity with the missionaries in our zone and three other zones.
We also recently learned that we will be able to take people to the Gilbert Temple
Open House. But the really exciting one happens in January. Three missions will
be together for a special meeting with Elder Holland of the Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles. We are looking forward to that opportunity with a lot of
anticipation.
I hope you all have a
great new year. Love you all.
Elder Kirk
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