Hello Family!
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving! As you know, I got to play sports
all day on mine. Yes we did have Costco pizza and it was wonderful.
Its the best pizza I have had since I have been here. Sports Day was
a blast! I played american football. I had my Texas pullover on
outisde in the freezing cold. President Bullock was QB most of the
time but I was a prime reciever. I felt like I was Jordan Shipley and
President was Colt McCoy throwing ball after ball to me :)
I was able to play basketball but it was kind of lame. There was too
many people and too many of them didnt know what they were doing but
it was good to do a little ball after it had been so long. We also
played volleyball. I am not in good cardio shape but I was in a lot
better shape than most of the Elders. Probably because I am newer.
Yes, that was only half of the mission in that photo.
Thank you all for the wonderful Thanksgiving letters! I actually
didnt get it until the 23rd but I was able to catch up. I enjoyed all
of them and had a good laugh at a few. It was good to them this week.
Jenny and her family has been frustrating but still promising. She
works all the time. We have dropped by to teach them twice but
neither appointment has been good. We do have planned to see them on
Tuesday which will be great! Jenny was very apologetic and says that
Tuesday will work. Continue to pray for them. I hope that all goes
well.
In my "Becoming Like Him" study this morning, I really enjoyed
learning how important knowledge really is in the gospel. I think of
the Savior and how He had a perfect knowledge of things and how we
should always strive for knowledge.
We must gain spiritual knowledge and apply it to our own lives. When
it is applied, we should use our knowledge in our examples to
everyone. Jesus used His knowledge in His teachings by showing us the
perfect example. In Luke 1:77, it says one of the Savior's purpose's
was to help us recieve a knowledge of salvation. I hope that I can be
a good example of what I have learned and be able share that with
others as a servant of the Lord. Thanks for your wonderful input on
virtue. I learned a lot from what you said :)
With regards to the shipping questions, yes they we will get the
packages on the 23rd if the mission office gets them before then. We
get mail every training/zone conference that we have that is sent to
the mission office. That is no problem to sent an envelope with the
charger to the flat. It should be okay.
I have some pics attached that are from a few weeks ago. That was
first experience of English fish and chips that I brought home. They
were incredible WITH the malted vinegar. The way the are made,
battered, and fried is much better than the U.S. I think my pallet
has changed for most English food. We also made that apple crumbe and
had custard one evening when we had to be in early on Guy Fawkes
night. It was divine as well.
I forgot to tell you that last transfer, Elder Jolliffe and I led the
mission as a single companionship for QGC's (Quality Gospel
Conversations).
I heard that Miami Heat lost their first game
to Boston! That was probably a while ago but I was very happy to hear
that from another missionary.
I'd like to mention that it is so
freezing here and last night tracting for 2.5 hours it was around -8
degrees celcius. If you could tell me what that is in farenheit that
would be great. We will be calling for Christmas I'm pretty sure and
we will have an hour to talk. I will ask about Skype but it seems
very unlikely.
