MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!
This week was just pure joy!! I wish I could just repeat it over and over again! We had a surprise mission conference this week. It was a Christmas themed one and President Allred's grandkids preformed the nativity! It was so cute! I got to see all my peeps from my old zone in Logan... I've missed them, so it was good to see everyone.
I went on exchanges this week with Sister Anderson, since Sister Sharp’s STL came with her. It was a fun day! Her area is a lot sketchier than mine so it was an interesting day, haha. Like we knocked one door and this girl opened the door wearing just her underwear... Yeah that was a fun conversation, haha! It was a good day and it's always cool to see what other areas are like.
Okay now for the good part! Christmas Eve night we drove for an hour to Logan and went to Sister Kelly's house! We had Christmas Eve dinner which was turkey, mash potatoes, etc.! Yummy stuff. We then played games with her family... It was so much fun! It hadn't really felt like Christmas to me till Christmas Eve night with the Kelly family because we were all together as a big family! Elder Gardner, Humphrey, Smith, and Davis were there too so it was a party! Sister Kelly got us PJs to wear that night and got us all our favorite candy! She is seriously the best and so charitable and kind! I miss her!
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| White Christmas |
Christmas Day... We put our mattresses by the tree and slept by the tree all night. We woke up and looked out the window and snow was everywhere! I've never had a white Christmas and so this was my first one! I couldn't believe it! All week there was no snow or any signs of it and then of course on Christmas we get a foot of snow! I loved it. We opened all of our packages! It was a fun morning with sister sharp! Oh yeah we even got presents from Santa (thanks to sister Cotrill the lady we live with). We went to 3 different wards for church, one at 9, 11, and 1pm. I love Christmas Sunday!! It was such a spiritual program and it was good to see everyone there!
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| Members in the area gave Marissa the 12 days of Christmas |
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| "Look an olde VW van" |
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| Marissa and Sister Spark |
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| White Christmas |
Then we got to skype our families!! Best part of the day! I've missed my fam so much! It was so weird to hear my first name for the first time in like 7 months! It was good to hear everyone's voices and see how their Christmas was! I even got to see my best friend Meg who went to my parent’s house to skype with me! I also got to talk to my sister and brother in law who are in Washington... Man I miss them! It was hard to say goodbye because I knew I wouldn't see them till Mother's Day, but I was grateful for the chance even to see them for 40 minutes! I love my family they have given me so much! They raised me in this gospel that I cherish so much and I can't thank them enough for that!
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| Skyping with my family |
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| Skyping with Jessica and Tate at the same time |
So Christmas on the mission turned out to be so great. We went to our ward mission leader’s house, brother Crittenden, for Christmas dinner! We played games with his kids and dinner was homemade pizzas which was different but super good! We then had a zone devotional to end off our Christmas. It was a testimony meeting and it was so spiritual. I was just thinking to myself during the meeting of how grateful I am to be here. To be on a mission. To be a missionary. To be a representative of Jesus Christ. I just love the mission so much even in the hard times. I get to become so close to my savior here and my love for the gospel has grown so much! I love this gospel so much. It has brought so much light and hope for me. I memorized the Living Christ the whole month of December and I finished memorizing it on Christmas Eve. I encourage you all to go read it. It purely testifies that Jesus is the living Christ and the sacrifice that he did for us. I love my Savior, he is my redeemer.
Sister Lowe
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