Yay, it's the Holiday Season!!
Thanksgiving and Christmas time are
especially great for missionaries. Everyone is just so happy! The
church is doing an awesome campaign called "He is the Gift"
and it is all about remembering that Jesus Christ is the greatest
gift. There is an amazing video for it on Christmas.Mormon.org .
Definitely check it out, if you haven't seen it yet! It has been fun
sharing the video with all the people we meet.
For Thanksgiving, we went to the W
family's for an amazing turkey dinner at lunch time! We were nice and
full the rest of the day while we went tracting and met a lot of
people, because everyone was actually home! That night we spent some
time wrapping Book of Mormons to give as gifts and writing the link
christmas.mormon.org on all of our pass along cards.
On Friday, we had plans to wake up at
4:00 am to contact people while they were on their way or in lines
for black Friday shopping, but all the stores we planned to go to,
weren't busy at all! We had a goal to contact 200 people that day, so
we were disappointed when the black Friday contacting idea was a
bust. That night at the park right by our apartment there was a huge
lighting ceremony with Christmas lights everywhere and a live band
playing. There were so many people everywhere, the three of us talked
to 339 people there! It was really fun because everyone wants to talk
about Jesus Christ when it is Christmas time!
A funny moment on Saturday: we had a
lesson with someone we had met a couple days before and during the
lesson Sister K made an analogy about how the Book of Mormon was like
a chocolate cake because you won't know it's good until you try it.
Then I added to the analogy by saying that just like you only need
one bite of a cake to know it is good, you can read a small part of
the Book of Mormon and know it is good. Then Sister J compared the
different parts of saying a prayer to a sandwich and the person we
were teaching asked, "Are you all hungry?" And I replied
and unintentionally created a pun, "No, we are just on a roll."
We couldn't stop laughing, even though it was way past being funny
and just annoying. The poor person probably thinks we are crazy :)
Things are going well in Dallas 6th
ward, H, someone who has been taking the lessons from missionaries
for over a year, is getting baptized this Saturday!
Have a great week!
Sincerely,
Sister Greenall
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