December 26, 2016
Hey Fam and Friends!
It has been a dang good
week this past week! Here are the highlights
- On
Christmas Eve my comp and I were late for caroling at Winco and so I said
a quick prayer that the traffic would clear, and then we ended up hitting
only Green lights for the entire way from our apartment which never
happens! 14 Green lights in a row!
- I
also went on splits with Oscar, a return missionary who served in the Las
Vegas mission. For the entire split he was talking about the power of
belief and not doubting. We tried it and got 4x as many people to church
as usual! (This isn't too impressive, seeing as the usual is 1, but it
sounded pretty good when I wrote it)
- We
had a baptism on Christmas Eve!! Like 4 weeks ago Elder Fouts and I fasted
to baptize on Christmas Eve. Then we put like 70 people on date for that
day and it didn't work out for anyone. I seriously thought we had failed,
then we got a call from Elder Flynn in Astoria. He said someone we taught
2 months ago was getting baptized on Christmas Eve, so he Invited me back
for it! When Elder Flynn and I taught Damon (the man who got baptized),
his mom was against it and we were in a time crunch because Damon was leaving
for boot camp. When he got back from boot camp his mom's heart was
softened and he still wanted to be baptized,
- Christmas
Eve we went caroling at Winco and had a blast! The whole zone was there
and we convinced some random pedestrians to sing along with us. We also
caroled later that night at a senior living center.
- On
Christmas we had a really great church service and Rhodes cinnamon rolls
for breakfast. Later in the day FaceTime with the Fam was ok too. Jk jk it
was so good to see everybody!
- Christmas
night we had dinner with the Bowers, which was really fun and honestly
just felt a ton like I was home! Then it turned out he Bower's were in
cahoots with mi madre because they turned out all the lights after dinner
and brought in a birthday cake and sang and somehow had all my birthday
presents from home! Haha props to mom, I have no idea how she pulled that
one off but it was fun!
The church is true folks!
Jesus really was born. Obviously we know that from historical records. The
really cool part is who Jesus actually was (is). He in fact changed the entire
world influencing people to dramatically change their lives even 2016 years
after his birth. Honestly the first step is always just to believe in him. I
mean if little kids have such great belief in a jolly old being who may or may
not exist - and that belief brings them gifts on Christmas - Then how much more
will we receive wonderful gifts day after day for believing in someone that we know does exist! The church is true!
Love Elder Thomas
My gifts on Christmas! Jk jk they're for the whole apartment
Damon's baptism
A cool bridge in Oregon
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