Week 36- Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!!

December 21, 2009

To My Favorite People in the Whole Wide World:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First and most importantly, let me tell you what time I'm going to be calling on Friday.....I'll probably end up calling at about 10:00 a.m. your time (noon, mine). I'm so stinkin excited, you have no idea!! This christmas is going to be just amazing! :) I have high hopes for it. Sister Ferguson and I are invited to a members home (The Fitzsimons) for breakfast and present opening and for phone calls. Probably lunch too. Usually they have the missionaries over all day long, but we promised other people that we would come by as well. Then dinner with another family and then we promised the Rodriguez family (who we had thanksgiving with) that we would come over in the evening. It's going to be a great day! I'm so excited to talk to all of you!!!!!!! And so excited for Christmas, haha, I love this time of year. And another great thing going on.....the day after christmas is Greg's baptism! He is finally set and finalized and going through with it! I can't wait! He is so excited to have a fresh start too. So keep praying for him! We all know this is when Satan works his hardest. But what a great christmas present for him, right? :) From the email from mom, I realized that you guys don't know much about Greg. He is 50 years old, divorced for a couple years now and has one son who is about 16. His wife doesn't let him see him though. Greg has made a lot of awesome leaps and bounds in his life! From overcoming drugs and alcohol (before we met him) and now he is completely done smoking! He really wants this fresh start, he loves church, loves the people and wants to make it a permanent thing. He's awesome. And then as for other investigators, Kyleigh is a 12 year old girl who is going to be baptized on Jan. 9 and the two kids from the less-active family (now activated) we will begin teaching after the holidays. They are in Florida, so we will start when they come back. We are also beginning to teach a man named Bobby Kennedy, who's wife is a member and his dad joined the church before he died. His sister is also a pretty active member, so we are excited for him too! I honestly love this area!!! If it was my choice, I'd stay at least another transfer, but I have a feeling I'll probably go somewhere new.
Anyway, about that winter storm we had over here. It really wasn't too bad. Bad for the first big snow fall of the year, but later on in the season, this kind of snow won't be bad. We did wake up to it snowing and it snowed all day long (I think it was about 11-12 inches and ........we were snowed in all day long :( Our district leader told us to stay in, so we had to do a lot to keep ourselves sane! haha. I've been working on some projects for lessons, put together your christmas package (it will probably be late, but it is coming), went out and built a snow man and snow angels, and went to bed way early! Man, I never want a day in like that again! Seriously, when I eventually get home, you guys are going to have to keep my busy like none other because I can't sit still very well! haha. Oh and along with the crazy snow, church was cancelled on Sunday. Luckily they had a sacrament meeting later in the day and we could go out and work. But no real church.
Sorry, I have made this long enough! I need to keep things to share with you when I talk to you on FRIDAY!!! Yay, I can't wait! I love you guys and hope you have the best christmas ever!!!!!!
Love, Holly