It was so
AWESOME to talk to y'all on Christmas! Ellie looks like 25 without braces
so that's weird and Bailey looks the same (sorry Bai). Can't even
imagine what y'all will look like in 14 more months!
Okay
Georgia is so weird because in Utah we get HEAPS of snow, but here we
get heaps of rain that nearly kill me when we are driving down the
roads. It literally comes down in buckets so hard (not an exaggeration), I've never seen anything like it. There were major flood warnings this week!
We
officially got to meet Helen Samuel (the Samuel's long lost daughter in
Idaho) who we've been told for the last 3 months looks and acts exactly
like Sister Russell. They are definitely twins!
Christmas
Eve was the BEST! The Cahill's (Snellville Ward Bishop) spoiled us rotten... Actually the
Snellville ward in general spoiled us rotten this Christmas. We have an
entire 3'x3' cabinet in our kitchen filled to the brim with sweets and
treats and candy and now i just want to throw up and pull out all my
teeth.
Christmas Day was killer... Obvi we got
to Skype :) and then we went with the Elders and Kate to the hospital
to go carol to the patients there! This was by far the most rewarding
Christmas activity i think I've ever done. We met so many awesome people
who were so grateful to have visitors on Christmas... One man in
particular sat and cried at his father's bedside as we sang "Silent
Night" to them and afterward he looked up at us with tears streaming
down his face and said "Thank you so much, you really have no idea how
much this means to us." We had the opportunity to pray with them right
there in the room and the spirit was so strong! it was by far one of the
most powerful experiences I've had on a mission yet. I'm thankful for
the power of song and the power of the spirit!
*Side note: saw the most McDreamy of all McDreamies doctor....not important*
Later
Christmas night, we had a lesson scheduled with a J-Dub (because they
are strange and don't celebrate Christmas.. or any holiday for that
matter) but unfortunately it fell through :( #classic
Since
we have less than 30 miles left for the last 5 days of the month on our
car, we trekked it up so much the day after Christmas. it was about 80
degrees and the most humid day I've seen yet THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME. It was so hot. But while we were out walking around,
we met a young man named Terry who was playing basketball. We stopped
to talk to him a little bit about what missionaries do and asked if we
could share a message with him. He told us that he's the only Christian
in a family full of Muslims and he just moved here a month ago from New
Jersey so it's been a tough adjustment. He feels very alone in his
family with his Christian beliefs and had so many questions about our
purpose here on earth and where we are going after this life. It was so
cool to testify to him that we knew the answers to those questions and
they could also be answered in the Book of Mormon. We got his number and
gave him Alma 34 to read from the Book of Mormon and Sister Russell
gave him her Bible so he could cross reference and stuff since he only
has the Quran laying around at home. Well we invited him to church,
found him a ride and got a solid commitment from him to come the next
morning! Buttttt.... when we called to confirm that night, a very VERY
unfriendly man answered the phone that was definitely not Terry. So we
now have no way to contact Terry and Sister Russell's bible was stolen.
:( Moral of the story: don't give away your bibles to rando's off the
skreet.
****Skreet (n): a word used in a
Southern English dialect to describe the pavement on which one drives.
(Other words used in the same dialect include skrong, axe (ask) and
skrengf.)****
Sunday was great! SHENELLE IS OFFICIALLY ON DATE FOR JANUARY 16TH!!!! Prayer works guys.
Okay that's all we got this week... hope y'all had a merry Christmas, and have a happy new year!
Make good resolutions and strive to be better this year than you were last year!
Make good resolutions and strive to be better this year than you were last year!
xo,
Sister Lawson
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