A few more pictures from our missionary!
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| Elder Woodfield and Elder Hammond at their Christmas party this week! |
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| Beautiful sunsets in El Salvador! |
Hello Everyone!
…Help me! The nights have been getting long, and the days
shorter... the terrible wind is frigid cold and I just cant stand it! At nights,
the temperatures are dropping...Friday night it dropped to 65 degrees! I don’t
know what I will do! Haha…So, I hope you all know that I am joking! The wind
here blows a whole 6 miles an hour and the people get all worried over it! haha
but really, the temperature dropped down to 65 the other night! I had to wear
long pants to bed! Terrible, eh?? haha Everyone here has been like freaking out
that it is so cold though! It is funny! The only thing I have to say though is
taking a cold shower when the air isn’t exactly "hot," isn’t very
fun! haha But I hear the weather up there is getting colder and colder??
LUCKIES!! I want cold! I want to wear my American Eagle jacket again! haha I miss
it – that’s for sure! But no, it is EXCELLENT here! Love you all!!!
So some news from this week, this week has been a bit
trial-filled, I suppose you could say?? Haha…lots of our lessons fell through
and lots of people rejected our message… but through it all, I still have
faith! By far the hardest thing was that we had 10 people commit to come to
church and NONE of them came! We had members setup to take them all to church
and everything, but when the members went they all had problems and couldn’t
come, or just weren’t there... sad sad…but I know it will be ok! No worries!
Other than that, it has been a very good week! We’ve had a lot of success with
the family of Karla and Carlos! Do you remember them? We found Karla and it was
when her husband wasn’t living with her anymore…and then when Carlos (her
husband) came back, she kind of stopped listening. Anyway, we basically dropped
them as investigators at the time…but there is a member that lives close and he
never gave up! He kept visiting her and visiting her and he actually got her
husband a job and everything! Anyway, long story short, they came to church one
day through the efforts of the member and we went to visit them that night and
it went awesome! He loved church and wants to keep going! We challenged them to
baptism on the 17th of December but they still haven’t accepted because they
are scared to commit but I know they will get baptized soon if not on that
date! I LOVE IT! They are so awesome!!
Other than that, that was about my last week! Apart from
yesterday! The reason that p-day was switched is because the Mission President
had a family night/day in his house! He has been taking each zone of
missionaries, one at a time, and inviting them to his house! Him and his wife
wanted us all to feel at home and to feel loved so they had a "day of
Christmas traditions.” It was so awesome!!! So, first things first, we got there
and had a prayer and read Luke Chapter 2 (the Christmas story). We had a good
discussion about Christ and his love for us, and then after, we got to change
into our regular clothes and play around! First off, we made and ate sugar
cookies and then we had chips and dip! Then, we took all the couches in the
house and built forts…and then threw hundreds of wadded up socks at each other
like a snowball fight! It was such a blast!!! I loved it! We then cleaned up
and had a scavenger hunt with cameras! We had to do things like imitate a
scripture scene in one, and in another, we all had to be jumping…and in another,
"be creative with a door" - just fun things like that! They will be
sending all those pictures to us next week so I will be sure to get those to
you all!! After that, we looked at all the pictures together and just laughed
and had a lot of fun! But then after that was the best part!!! We had lunch! And
all of it was imported food from the US!!! We had carrots in a butter sauce and
a baked Idaho potato! Then we had a classic Utah Jello side and for the grand
finale, we had a prime grade skirt steak! SO SO SO delicious! I LOVED IT!!! The
president definitely spoiled us! I was completely stuffed!!! I LOVED
IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MMMMMM…I forgot how good American food tastes! Anyway,
after that, we played a game where everyone writes the name of a famous person
on a piece of paper and then I would guess if someone wrote that name and if I
was wrong he got to guess someone else and if I was right he was on my team,
and we would be working together! It was a lot of fun and a bit like Apples to
Apples! It was all a blast! Anyway, so after this, we changed into missionary
clothes again and had a testimony meeting (really cool! loved it too!!) and
then after, we all got hot brownies and ice cream!! So classic American! Love
it! Anyway, it was a blast! Make sure you are all having fun and partying like
that every day, okay?? Oh, also, just so you all know, I totally made a Christmas
countdown with candy and saran wrap! hehehe
Anyway, that is about it for this week! I love you all so much!
Stay strong and always remember the real reason for the season is Christ! Everyone
read in Luke chapter 2 and think about Christ! LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
Love,
Elder Woodfield (Braden:))
P.S. Something funny that happened to me - On the first of the month, I went to take
out my money from my account and I forgot my pin... well, lets just say I was
dumb and put my pin in one too many times! Now, I don’t have a debit card (my
mission one, at least…I still have my personal card, no worries) but they had
to transfer all of my money into my companion’s account and they will give me
my new card in a month! haha funny, right? You can all laugh at my stupid
moment if you want! That’s me! Forgetful Braden! You still all love me, right??
hehe
P.S.S. One of our investigators named Jose, "admitted"
to us this week that he committed a grave sin (a grave sin is like murder) and
he was totally serious! Want to know what his sin was?? He told us that one day,
he skipped school to go to a cyber and play video games... and the police saw
him in his uniform and took him to his house! haha Isn’t that funny? Totally
not a grave sin but he was all scared that he couldn’t be baptized and stuff! I
loved it – too funny!
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