To the Family,
Another week has come and gone
like a flash, it is starting to freak me out! Some of yous have been
asking about sending a package. At this point all of yall should send
stuff to the missionn office due to the fact that I will probably be
transferring next week. I have been in the Ben Lomond Stake for the past
6 months, it is time for me to go. Also, you have been asking what I
want, that would be music and ties and random stuff that you would think
I would need I guess. Pictures are always good. From this point forward
I am banning food from being sent. We get fed WAYYY too much here and
it is hard to eat all the goodies that people give me. Thank you.
Last week we had the Mission
Christmas Conference. It was pretty good. We had an interesting training
in the morning about what we need to do from hours 1 to 5 and how we
should speak to members during dinners. It was pretty cool. We also
heard a returned missionary speak about his experiences. He is from Utah
and he served in Boise haha. Then we had lunch, ham and potato,
original...and then we took a mission picture. Then after that was the
talent show, I was not a part of it. There were many neat talents shared
and some not so neat talents haha jk it was all good.
Some of you were asking about
that older couple that I talked about last week. Well they dropped us
haha. The morning before we had the lesson they called us and said that
they were not interested and that they did not want to change. Story of
my life, nobody wants to change out here!! We did not really expect that
all due to the fact that our first lesson went so well and the spirit
was so strong you could cut it with the Book of Mormon. We did help them
come closer to Christ even just a little bit if anything though. We
helped the lady forgive herself for something that happened so long ago.
Who knows, maybe they will be looking for something later on down the
road and they will remember that experience we had and look further into
the Gospel.
We did pick up a new
investigator this week!! It really isnt as exciting as it sounds though
because he isnt that interested haha. Remember I talked about the
foreign exchange students a few weeks ago. This guy is the Serbian
exchange student. He has many questions and odd concerns, but is
interested in at least hearing about what we believe. The lesson was
supposed to be on the Plan of Salvation, but it got way off topic, maybe
our next lesson he will listen a little bit more. We will talk about
faith since he doesnt seem to have any belief in faith at all or even
know what it is. We have yet to meet with the German girl still who
seems to be the more interested one. We had a lesson set up but she
kinda bailed on us, so now we are trying to set up another lesson.
How was the Christmas Party
back home? Did you have any nonmembers or less actives show up? How long
was it? The parties here are like an hour and a half long and it seems
too short. I dont know, maybe Im going crasy. We have been to 4 of them
so far and we have 3 more this saturday in the morning. Who knows why they do morning parties here? The funny thing is that they all serve the same food, so every saturday
we know exactly what we are going to eat for breakfast and for
dinner...ham...We have invited a bunch of people to the Christmas
parties and a few have showed up. We are hoping this weekend will be
better. I sang in the stake Christmas choir a few nights ago, there were
a lot of cool songs we sang. We also had a few people show up who we
were teaching which was awesome!
Other than that I dont think there is anything else new. Next Tuesday
I will be able to tell you where I am going so that will be exciting. I
am getting a bit anxious again to find out whats going on. I hope all
of you have a good week! See you on the other side!
Love,
Elder Connell
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