Merry Christmas

How is everyone doing? This has been a fun week.

We had a kid baptized, and I got to confirm him. It was pretty cool, he's a good kid.

Transfers are tomorrow and Fairbanks is leaving. I've never met my new companion, but his name is Elder Henke and I hear he's hard to deal with and bi-polar. But it'll work out. It'll be a fun transfer :P

I'm ready for Christmas. We aren't allowed to watch movies anymore. Even though most missions are allowed to watch movies any p-day, we can't even on Christmas. So kinda bummed about that, but it'll still be an awesome Christmas.

We went to a baptism for the sisters and had to fill the font as they were starting it because whoever was in charge forgot. And a font takes about 2 hours to fill. So while they were singing and giving talks a lot of us were filling trash cans full of water and filling the font really fast. It probably wasn't as warm as they'd like, but we got it filled in time.  It was really fun.

We had mission conference this week.  That's when all the missionaries in the mission got together for a day. We had a talent show and a couple elders and I did a rap song/dance thing about the word of wisdom.  It was hilarious. We kinda winged the whole thing.

We get to teach a youth lesson every other Sunday at a members home.  We did it this week on the true meaning of Christmas and Christmas miracles.  It was a really great lesson. We talked about a guy, Ed, who we're teaching.  He's living with his his girlfriend and they each have one kid. One is 5 and one is 16 months old. He'd been looking for work when we started teaching him, found a job working on an assembly line, and just lost it because he didn't report an injury that he didn't think was an injury at first.  And he's an ex-convict, so nobody wants to hire him. He had enough money to either pay bills for the next couple months or buy Christmas for his two kids. After the youth lesson, a bunch of kids came up and were all wanting to know what they could do to help. Because of these kids, there's enough money to get them Christmas, and we've gotten hold of the president of the the company that fired Ed and he's going to see about hiring him back. Talk about a Christmas miracle. It's amazing what these kids have done. They know the true meaning of Christmas. I'm amazed at their charity and desire to help others.

This is going to be an amazing Christmas. I hope everyone has a good Christmas and remembers the true meaning of it. Helping others and being with loved ones. Best wishes for everyone.


Elder Pearson