This week was good! There was for sure some slow days but for the most part it was a super quick week. This week we got someone on date for baptism!!! Her name is Maria! She is super awesome and really excited to be baptized! She is from Cape Verde so her English is not super awesome but luckily we have quite a few Spanish speaking people in the ward. Which was a huge blessing. We teach and then the ward member translates for us. She came to church yesterday and we set her baptismal date for January 19th. She is already super ready so that date might be moved up. That has been super fun to go through.
Our ward had their Christmas party this last Saturday and the Elders Quorum was in charge of everything. Unfortunately not many of the men wanted to come to the church on Saturday morning to decorate. Before Elder Jarrett left he volunteered the missionaries in Smyrna to come help. So Elder Pittman and I went to the church on Saturday to decorate! We played florists for a little while! We did the flower arrangements and washed some dishes haha. After that we got some Taco bell and went home to finish studies and do some missionary work for a while. Then It was time for the Party! It was super cool. The ward is pretty small so it was super different to be able to talk to every single person that was at the party. Unlike back in Utah it felt like 2000 people showed up for every event. The party was catered unlike any of the Christmas parties back in Utah haha. We had tons of really good turkey and ham. It was a good old time. It was finished and we help clean up and everything. Went home and went to bed.
And then catastrophe hit. Elder Pittman and I both got some kind of stomach bug either from taco bell or the ward Christmas party. and we were both up at around 2:30. To put it nicely we were trying to get rid of the bug. Haha but the pains were there all of Sunday. And usually if I were in that much pain I would have just gone back to the apartment and get myself back together there. But unfortunately we had planned all sorts of sacraments to take to people and lessons to get to so we were extremely busy and didn't go back to the apartment until night time. Which was super busy. Let's just say it was the busiest day I've had in a while which would have been wonderful if I hadn't be suffering. But overall a really good week. I hope everyone had a good week. Don't forget to light your community this week. Love you!
-Elder Dorrance
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| "I don't think it's going to look a lot like Christmas" |
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| I tried to give myself a haircut I didn't like how it turned out Gave up all hope |
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