Monday, December 23, 2013

Monday, December 23, 2013

I appreciate the update.  Sounds like a lot of fun!

I found out that my iPad, that I thought was configured to be watched by church headquarters was set up, but it wasn't!  Haha!  The reason it was so funny, was because some of the elder's wasn't configured and I gave them a lot of grief, sarcastically, that they were being disobedient.  Long story short, we found out that mine wasn't either.  I couldn't stop laughing.  But NOW church headquarters can see my every move.

How about Christmas Day, between 1:30-2:00, my time for phoning home? We have been asked to do visits that day, so we will see what we end up doing. The mission is having a mission conference tomorrow.  We will meet at the Planview chapel, which is closer to my old area. This will be my first meeting as a mission!  I am so excited!  We are to meet at the mission office at SEVEN-THIRTY AM, and it takes an hour thirty to get there from Brooklyn.  We will have an early morning.  But we are excited.  Tomorrow night will also be good-we are going Christmas caroling with a family in the ward.

New Year's Day is a normal day, and New Year ’s Eve we come home at 6pm, do "anything" but cards.  I plan to sleep.  We don't get much of that here...

Our district is passing around the stomach flu, so that may be my companionship soon.  I sure hope not.

This week we haven't been able to get in touch with our investigators really much at all.  I feel kind of bad.  We went to see our investigator and she was not feeling well.  We just pray for them. Sometimes that's all you can do.

We had a Christmas fireside that I was asked to play in for the Spanish ward, and I played with Sister Lewis.  We performed Angels We Have Heard on High. A member of their bishopric who let me borrow his clarinet asked if I could play in their sacrament meeting on this last Sunday- and it went well.  We played the same song, and he added the flute part.  He played great and it went well.  The Spanish ward is tiny.  I wish some of the English ward could come support them with callings or something.  They don't even have a pianist for sacrament meeting.  I'm not sure why the missionaries in that ward don't play for them.  I know a few of them know how.

The training is going really well.  I have been able to learn a lot.  I don't know what there is to say any more about missionary work- it's just really the same from week to week?  What do you want me to report?

Mom and Dad, did either of you train on your mission?

I am so thankful for the experiences I'm having. Training this week has been great! :) Sister Hodgson is really just progressing so well!  I am so proud of her.  There is so much that she teaches me.  I recognize the huge responsibility, but it am not as overwhelmed as I was.

Sorry for the lame email. This week has been great!