Ayyy Feliz Navidad (ya que no lo pude decir a tiempo)
This week was pretty weird honestly. Pday was on Monday,
Christmas Eve was Tuesday, and Christmas was Wednesday so it almost felt like a
3 day weekend. A lot of our plans for christmas didn't end up happening so we
were pretty much just winging it.
Christmas Eve was good, we started it off with a Zone
Breakfast! Pancakes, and Ham it was super good actually. We made a massive
table too so all 26 of us were sitting around the same table. Then, we went
caroling in Benton City. The Hermanas there have a lot of cool people they
teach that we got to meet and sing to! We had a pretty good group too so the
singing didn't sound terrible. Later, the Peña's invited us to dinner at their
house and so we had some suuuuper good pazole and ham. They had a new stereo too
so they showed it off with some.... Not missionary songs haha. We had to be in
after 6 so we just chilled in the Apt with the Elders and had some good deep
conversations.
Christmas we got up and did 'Boonie Sports' for like 3
hours. (all the missionaries in the boonies get together idk if I already have
explained this). We didn't really have anything set the rest of the day but we
last minute got invited to this dinner where like 10 missionaries and 20
members ended up being there. The food was pretty solid but the highlight was
the homemade eggnog and playing Chess with this old dude that completely and
utterly destroyed me haha. Later all the boonie missionaries got together for
the rest of the evening and some members bought us some treats and stuff. Overall,
super chill.
After that, we got back to work! We had some sweet lessons
with Efren, the peña family and a few others. We ended up walking a lot since
the other elders needed the car to get to a person they are teaching. My brain
is having trouble remembering everything since it went by so quick but we had
this super rough lesson Sunday night. It wasn't a bad lesson, it was just all
over the place. We talked about everything from polygamy to sabbath day worship
to prophets. It was a really good test of my Spanish since I had to explain
some complicated stuff. They were super nice tho and invited us back next week
for another lesson.
Elder McBride is doing way good his Spanish has improved
soooo much. We are still working on it but he's getting there.
Sadly no one came to church, we are gonna do a better job of
reminding people (Like go knock their door at 10am to wake them up haha) but we
taught the fifth Sunday lesson and it went pretty well. We did our best to
excite the branch about missionary work! They are still figuring everything out
with the new branch and pretty much no one knows anything so that's fun. We'll
get there though!
Los quiero, hasta la próxima semana
- Elder Thompson
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