The true meaning of Christmas

Hey Mom!

 

This week was pretty good. We had a great lesson with Tracy Hayens and his wife Wanni. She really wants to be baptized and is working on reading a little bit in Elglish from the Pamphlets that we teach with. We also just found a copy of the Book of Mormon in Cambodian. It has a personal testimony from someone in it so we are going to give it to her next week.

 

We went to the Temple Visitors Center with Brian and Brandelyne on Tuesday. That was tons of fun. We saw Paul Cardall perform. He was awesome! We got there early so we could watcht the video Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration and he loved it. We took some pictures on his camera and we will have him email it to us.

 

We also had a great service project that we did on Saturday. It was the ward Christmas party and they made it service oriented. Basically they chose 7 families consisting of members and non members and they made a list of things they needed doanted and put them as ornaments on the tree in the foyer. The ward members then grabbed the different things they wanted to donate and then they all brought them Saturday morning. We had a great turn out and there the packages that were made for them were huge. It was awesome to see how to change the typical ward party into a service oriented party that showed the true meaning of Christmas. We went with one of the members of the Bishopric to drop one families gifts off and it was really touching. It was a great way remember what Christmas was all about.

 

Other than that we had a slow weeK! Lame but we are working hard at finding new people to teach. One thing President Riggs wants us to focus on is asking EVERYBODY for referrals and to focus on teaching families!

 

Talk to you soon!

 

ELder Powell!!!