Hey everyone! This week was pretty good! The weather has been great and we finally got a new bike so we can go places now!
On Tuesday, we were on exchanges and Sister Martinez was with me. She's so fun! We spent so much time walking. We visited some people, and had such a fun dinner! These members have 4 girls and they are so funny. We also practiced the musical number I'm doing because the mom is accompaning me. We went out and visited a few more people. Then we exchanged back!
Wednesday was all walking. We visited with this one sweet old member We visited with a new lady named Suzy. Suzy is 75 and super funny. She loves to talk. It was an interesting conversation about her life. We had a meeting with the stake president to talk about all the missionaries. It was pretty good!
We were at zone conference all day on Thursday!! We had lots of good instruction, then after lunch, we had some fun activities. Last year, we decorated gingerbread houses and played a bunch of games. This year, the activities related to missionary work. We had one where we talked about table manners and about trying everything. Then they had a food tasting thing and they had different rounds with really odd food (quail eggs in a brine, herring, dried shredded squid). It smelled so bad. Another game was budgeting and spending our money wisely. There was also a bike one. We were there for so long! We also got our Christmas packages. We went to young womans and played some Christmas games with them.
We could finally bike on Friday! We visited with some sweet members. It was so windy though. I didn't realize how much wind affects you while you're biking. We visited some people, had a couple good lessons with some less engaged ladies. I made us some good dinner, then we called a bunch of people.
Saturday was a blast! We helped set up for the ward Christmas party! Afterwards we went out and tracted for a while. We came the church for the party! It was so fun! They asked me to play a couple hymn for everyone to sing to. I'm glad I have these skills. It was fun! We helped clean up afterwards. I was exhausted!! We had 7 less engaged members and 1 friend show up so we were busy talking to people the whole time.
Sunday was also good! We went to church and tracted. Then we had dinner with a super fun family with 6 crazy kids. They make amazing food though and are so fun to hangout with. We went to drop the car off and the sisters downstairs neighbor is a member. The sisters usually go and sing with him every Sunday night but they hadn't shown up yet. He asked if we wanted too but we said we couldn't, walked away, then came back to sing with him. It was pretty fun. And the sisters eventually showed up after 30 minutes. The guy said we sing with more gusto than the other sisters. It was pretty funny! We all sang a couple songs together. Then we walked home in the rain.
We've been sharing this video with some members recently and it so simply demonstrates how we can love our neighbors. Hopw you get a chance to love your neighbors!
I hope you all have an amazing week! I can't believe Christmas is in a week! December is going by so fast!
Love,
Sister O'Barr
