Merry Christmas everyone!!
I was just remembering how my dad is famous for wishing
every passing stranger a Merry Christmas during these precious weeks, and now
that I’m in the mish, I find myself doing the same thing. Funny how that is,
huh?
This week was FULL of fun! We had our Multi-Zone
Christmas program (which was a beautiful disaster) and our White Night with
several baptisms.
In the Christmas program, we put on a show and dressed up
for a modernized missionary-nativity. We sang himns and ate good food. I
decorated a new missionary in flashing Christmas lights becuase he was the
angel. President Reynoso told dumb jokes between the acts that made us laugh
far too much. We destroyed piñatas and filled the empty spaces of our stomachs
with candy.
The season is bright. We live in a nice area right now,
so the Christmas lights are good. Next week I’ll try to send photos, but I can’t
make promises.
We’re teaching a family of Austrians! The Kruscher
family. They speak German and English, so we’re trying to learn as fast as we
can! If we can’t speak English by tomorrow, we’ll have to bring Sister
Alejandra to translate for us. We special-ordered them four Book of Mormons in
German so that they would get excited to learn. It worked!! They’re very
excited to hear our message.
Anything else? OH! I’ve been learning how to be firm with
the missionaries. Elder Juarez (President’s assistent) noticed that I
demostrate too much love (..half-joking), so he’s been coaching me in how to
make things very VERY clear to the Elders when they need to be. I admire the
guy a lot for his ability to repremand with love, and even though I STRONGLY
DISLIKE ordering people to do things, I know it’s a necessary skill to be an
effective leader. Even Jesus had to do it, but He always did it with the best
interest of the other person in mind.
Anyway.... STUDY YOUR SCRIPTURES!! (haha.... just
practicing...)
I love you all, and thank you for your continued support.
The time goes way too fast. We’ll be seeing eachother before you know it!! Have
an adventure this week! Share the Gospel with someone new! It will bring you so
many blessings that you can’t even count them!
Love,
Elder Carson
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