Week #68 A Wonderful Christmas

     Hey everyone, Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Hopefully you're all enjoying the festive seasons, everyone here in Gabs has left for their home villages. It's made this week another interesting one, but still pretty good!

Our week started out with some really good lessons, the first was Chaka, the second was Eric. Chaka is continuing to progress really well and we should be able to set a baptismal date with him soon. He's also hilarious so we always have a nice chat before our lessons. Eric is a Facebook referral that we received a few weeks back, he's been reading the BoM a lot and practically recited all of Alma 32 to us. I think he'll also be able to progress towards baptism relatively quickly. This same day Wutkee may or may not have pancaked a cat on our way home trying to make it back before curfew.

Christmas day was really fun, it started out by all of Gabs, Kanye, and Mochudi, going to the Walkers for a Christmas lunch/ devotional thing. After that, Wutkee and I went around dropping gifts and visiting members, it was a blast. It was also my last Christmas on mission which is pretty crazy!

The day after Christmas was barren. We tried finding for a couple hours which wasn’t the best but we found one woman that seemed like she could be interested. We also went to mochudi to get a meal from the sisters since they owed us. We had a handful of lessons but they were all mid.

A little bit later in the week we visited the Eze's (member family) with the sisters, played some games, and shared a spiritual thought.

There were many other fun things during the week such as YSA night where we discussed Moroni 10 at the Lewis’ home and had pizza. Visiting our Bishops home and having fun, many B-Day surprises, service projects, etc.

One final thing so that this email doesn't take up your whole day. We met one woman earlier this week by accident when looking for a member. She invited us back to celebrate her 2 year old daughter's birthday in a couple days. We went back on her birthday to celebrate with them since they were alone and the mother said she'll be right back and that she had to go buy something. She left us, strangers, in her home, alone with her baby! What the heck. However, it was nice, and we were glad to celebrate with them.

P-Day (today) was basically just playing games at home, grocery shopping, and then we finished the day by having two great FHE's with members.

It was a pretty good week, we hit our goals, met a lot of members, and had a lot of fun. Thank you all for the emails!

Love y'all.

Elder Miller 

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