Dearest Family
It is good to hear that you had a good week! My week has gone well also! So I am planning on calling home around 1:00ish. I hope that that is an ok time for you guys. We’ll probably open presents in the morning with the Lewis Family and then probably have lunch then call home. Just to warn you now when I call home it’s only going to be 40min. I love you but I don’t want my call home to pull my thoughts away from the work. I am excited to call and talk to you. I can’t believe that it is already time to do that again! It is crazy that Christmas is already 3 days away!! Where has the time gone? I was thinking about it the other day and I came to the conclusion that I received my mission call a YEAR ago!! I can’t believe it. Also Elder West and I are staying together for one more Transfer! Elder Ekstrand called and told me I was going to Cheyenne and I believed him then later that night he called and said he was kidding….
Well this week we had our Christmas devotional, which was amazing. We got there and first we did our white elephant gift exchange. We all sat in the gym in a huge circle. For the Christmas Devotional it was split up into the North half of the mission meeting together and the South half of the mission meeting together so there were a lot of missionaries. So we sang some Christmas songs and them President and Sister Ely ran in with Christmas hats on and we started the exchange. We all got presents & then President Ely read “The Night Before Christmas” and every time he said right or left we had to pass our present in that direction. I ended up getting these toy tractors. It was fun. After that we all kinda visited for a couple minutes then we went into the Chapel and had a Christmas program. It first started off with a man named Keith Handy, he works for the Church and the Employment part of it. In his free time he goes down to South America and studies the Ancient Civilizations. It was so cool the things he showed us. There were so many pictures of a God descending from heaven with prints in his hands and in his feet, bringing light to them! He also showed us a pictures of the carving of a man who had just killed a king and was wearing his clothing and carrying his sword, this same man also had two sets of plates in his hand, one set was closed, and the other was open symbolizing that there was still more to be written in it! It was so cool! There is so much evidence that Jesus Christ visited the American Continent. I already knew that He did before I was in this presentation but it was still cool to see the evidence the ancient inhabitants left for us to find. After that then we read Luke Chapter 2. Some missionaries read it in their native language which was sweet. We also had a couple musical numbers. After that was over I stayed and talked to Brother Handy, it was really cool, he said that he really enjoyed doing it for a hobby, I asked about doing it for a career and he told me some interesting facts. It was really nice. After that I grabbed the last of the lunch that had been prepared. Then we went home and went back to work. It was sweet!
Also this week the Coal Creek missionaries and us went to McDonalds. They are currently having a deal where you can order 50 Chicken McNuggets for $9.99. We ended us ordering 210! I ate 45, Elder West ate 70, Elder Ekstrand ate 50, Elder Johnson ate 22, and Addison ate 23. I felt really gross after doing it. It was pretty crazy though!
So this Christmas should be nice. On Christmas Eve our Zone is getting together and watching the Joseph Smith The Prophet of the Restoration, which is my favorite movie! Then Christmas day we are opening presents with the Lewis’s and they are also feeding us so that should be sweet! We are also supposed to get some more 0 degree weather and also snow!!!! I think we will have a white Christmas! I can only hope though! Also this last Monday on P-day we got to watch a Christmas movie, so Elder West and I watched “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” which was good. I would also like to thank you for the 12 Days of Christmas! Elder West and I have really enjoyed it! I love you so much, you are all too good for me, I hope that I am living up to the sincere love and appreciation that you give me. Thank you so much!
Well this week went well with our investigators, as you will read later on there were 5 investigators at church on Sunday! It was so cool! I was way excited! We had a really good Christmas program too, so that was nice. We have been able to teach some really good lessons, unfortunately some of our investigators are kind of not keeping the commitment they agree to keep, so we will see if we stop going by as often or not. Well I am running out of time! I really do love you and I can’t believe that it is already time to talk to you again! I hope you enjoy it! By the way I hope you got the package that I sent! I love you so much! I hope you have a great week and I will talk to you in 3 days! Crazy!
LOVE
Elder Lassen
Miracle of the week: We were able to have 5 investigators show up to church, and these were people who we had been inviting to join us at church for the past couple months! It was wonderful because they were able to feel of the special spirit that church has!