Alex Boye and his back-up dancers, who did pretty well considering how on the spot it was.
Helping Sister Goodbar make Christmas candies for the little children.
Practicing Stille Nacht with the King family!
Sparta with the Dover Elders--the Brazilian one was our District leader and just a joyous goon!
The Izquierdos! They invited us over to make birthday gifts for Jesus to open on Christmas.
On Christmas Eve we played a plethora of games including the one where you see how many marshmallows you can fit in your mouth while saying words.
Everyone with their spoils from the white elephant--I got a lizard man action figure with his head chopped off. Nice.
Christmas morning!
Little Peter and his father on Christmas Eve! They made us tasty meat with beans and rice!
A package sister Dorneles received, and no it wasn't filled with only beans and rice.
Sister Torgerson testing out her head massager on Sister Dorneles.
NOTE FROM MOM: This was last week's post (12/31/12)--I typed it all in but must not have entered it or something.
Dearest Family!
So good to hear that you all had a great Christmas! I hope your New Year's is just as joyous! Ours will probably be pretty quiet. Or filled with packing because tomorrow is transfers. Which brings me to my next point: Sisters Torgerson and Dorneles are leaving Sparta and I will be training a new sister! I'm so nervous, but I'm also excited! I think I heard she's from the Philippines! With training studies, personal study, comp study, and language studies, we will have four hours of studies every day! Plus her new missionary meetings and my departing missionary meetings. This will be a busy month, which I'm glad about, because it won't give me any time to wig out about leaving.
So good to hear that you all had a great Christmas! I hope your New Year's is just as joyous! Ours will probably be pretty quiet. Or filled with packing because tomorrow is transfers. Which brings me to my next point: Sisters Torgerson and Dorneles are leaving Sparta and I will be training a new sister! I'm so nervous, but I'm also excited! I think I heard she's from the Philippines! With training studies, personal study, comp study, and language studies, we will have four hours of studies every day! Plus her new missionary meetings and my departing missionary meetings. This will be a busy month, which I'm glad about, because it won't give me any time to wig out about leaving.
Its been a pretty quiet week, besides driving to Morristown for training meetings. We have been working hard, but not finding too many people. But we just got a returned missionary in the ward, and he has a whole gaggle of friends he wants us to teach! I love the enthusiasm of RMs--I hope I'm that way too! Dawn and Judy have been struggling lately with coming to Church, which makes me really sad. It's not that they don't want to come, but they've been sick. And you know how it is trying to come back to Church after not coming for over a month--it's just so much more difficult. Satan throws everything in your path so that you don't think you can come. Sister Torgerson has taken it really hard--she has so much charity. She just loves people so much. And Sister Dorneles, the sassy Brazilian one, loves in a different way. She calls them to repentance because she loves them. I've learned so much from them and I'm gonna miss them as companions. Little Peter is doing well, just cute as ever. Kevin is in Uruguay until the middle of January, and we can't contact him there. I wish we would've known beforehand that he was going so we could've looked up the nearest Church for him there.
I'm excited for the new year and I hope all of you are too! I know how important setting and planning to achieve our goals are. I would exhort all of you to prayerfully ponder what the Lord expects of you this year. It could be more diligent scripture study, family history work, missionary work, etc. Our ultimate end goal is eternal life with our Heavenly Father, so when setting your goals, think to yourself, "Will this help me be more prepared to meet God? Will this help others be more prepared?" Just food for thought.
I love you kids and I hope you all stay safe! Love you!
Also, this transfer we're getting three sisters in. Next transfer we're getting twelve! And twelve the transfer after that!? Which means every sister left here will be training, and my trainee will train as soon as she's done being trained in twelve weeks! Woof!
Sister Meeso
