Christmas and lectures....

 Monday Dec 30, 2019

Hey Everyone, I hope that you all had a really good Christmas last week. There wasn't a whole lot that happened in the area this week due to the Holidays but there were still a couple things that did happen. On Christmas Eve we decided to go out and try to get in touch with a couple Members that we have never met before. We had one person say we can come back next year which was weird to hear until I realized there is only a couple days left of this year. We decided to go by a Former that night as well and at first he wasn't home so we decided to work around in the area. Right as we were about to leave he drove up onto his driveway and we talked with him for a little bit. He had a couple misconceptions about the Church from a previous visit so we cleared that up for him. We are hoping to be meeting with him again soon because he does sound pretty promising.

Christmas was alright this year, it felt basically the same as last year which included going to the Zone Leaders Apartment and opening up Presents. I remember doing that last year with my Zone Leaders in Allen, shout out once again to Elder Fox and Elder Richard's. We also went to a Members house for dinner but I guess they never got our text about us coming later on so that was kind of embarrassing. The Member gave us a lecture in a way by telling us to text back when people text us. I guess we just have to live by that now. Later in the week we met with Gary again and went over the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Law of Chastity. We extended a Baptismal date for January 18th with him so I am pretty excited for it. I am really hoping that he gets through it and makes that date because it may be my last Baptism on the Mission. Another really cool thing that happened this week is that we got a couple referrals. We texted one of them who was Hispanic who texted back saying they weren't interested. After having a conversation back and forth we learned that he isn't home a lot of time so we gave him a link to the Book of Mormon app. He is going to start reading from it and I am hoping we'll be meeting with him next year. Other than that we have been clearing up a few other misconceptions about the church and have people that want to learn more. I hope you all have a great week and I'll talk to you again next year.