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| Christmas Card from the Elder's! |
Christmas is coming up and we took a Christmas picture by
the Christmas tree to send "gay happy tidings" all around. The
Springwater YSA Christmas program happened just yesterday and the amount of Christmas tidings was immense. Everyone we meet seems to do their best to
fill us with homemade sweets made right from the Celestial ovens. The
Christmas spirit in Portland is manifest by the various gentleman’s clubs / hookah lounges. What a better way to spend the
holidays?! A major miracle happened this
week which I must relay to you back home. We searched for a man named Sax
this week. After an evening of searching with no luck we decided the
address was faulty... The next evening we needed to grab some milk late at night & go to the bathroom so
we went to the nearest Walmart. We grabbed all of our items and headed to
the checkout stand where we found a nice gentleman by the name of Sax checking
people out :) yes this was the very man we were looking for who moved from
France two months ago. Sax was confused as to how we knew his last name
but he was really excited to find us. We went over for the new member
lessons to find his non-member cousin ready to listen to all this Mormon jazz too. Merry Christmas Miracle for Elder
King & Elder Jewkes. This week we actually found two new investigators to
invite to the waters of baptism. Some real Christmas gifts coming in the
form of baptisms this year. Another great gift was attending the Portland
temple this week. On Friday we were allotted a temple trip at 10:30 AM.
The timing of this session was fantastic so I actually stayed awake during the
session. The whole zone was in attendance and after we had to grab a
little grub at Olive Garden to finish the magical experience. My companion Elder Jewkes was baptized
Catholic when I went on. HAHAHA! YES a member of the Catholic Church
brought out the holy water and just laid it on him during a teaching
appointment. After being baptized he was
presented with a gift of "glass goblets" the finest glass goblets in
all the land. But, soon after this Elder Jewkes was accused of being a
serial killer from Chicago by the same man who just baptized him! I am upset I missed this magical occurrence.
I happen to be on exchanges in one of the only walking areas in all the
mission! My chicken legs feel like death today. What a lazy sack of
missionary I am! I hope you all know Christmas in the mission field is a Christmas like no other. Just the whole Christmas
season is incredible teaching others why we have Christmas. Listening to Michael Buble Christmas also is
awesome... Don't get me wrong Momma King and Poppa King know how to deliver during Christmas time...
But don't think missionaries are ever deprived out here. My goodness we are so
blessed. Been drinking egg nog every night and telling everyone I see about the
Savior of the world is pricelessssssss. We
just bought our gifts for the white elephant exchange and I have decided to go
with a can of dog food!!! Lucky for my zone I am a great gift giver.
Merry merry Christmas and attached is a pic of our apartment’s Christmas card
which some of the elect will be receiving back home. LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU AND MERRIEST of Christmases.
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