So in mission terms when you begin your mission, you are
"born" and when you finish your mission, you "die." The
other day Sister Jelderks looked at me and said, "I want to kill
you." At this point it's very possible that she could be my last companion
and "kill" me.
This week was so good! Nothing too exciting happened, but we
did so much and worked so hard. On Thursday we did a lot of service, and it was
all with books. It hurt my heart that I couldn't read them. We did service at
the public library where our bishop works and got an arm workout dusting over
100 book shelves. Then we volunteered at the animal shelter's fundraiser of
gift wrapping at barnes and noble. We were at the bookstore for 6 hours and all
I could do was look at the spines and covers and start making a list of books to
read when I get home. We did find one book that had 3000 get to know you
questions and we went through some of them.
We got to see a lady that lives in a nursing home a couple
of times this week. We had made some christmas decorations for her and her roommate
and it made them so happy. We also took a young family with us that wanted to
meet her and they all had so much fun. The youngest in the family who is two
keeps asking, "Go see miss Cathy?" and Cathy keeps asking when the
kids are going to come visit.
We had our ward Christmas party on Saturday. I played a
special musical number in it, played piano for the relief society's special
musical number, and helped the young women in their 12 days of Christmas skit.
Now the whole ward knows I'm musical.
I love being a missionary and seeing the light of Christ
come into others' eyes. That is what this season is about; the Light of Christ
and bringing it into the lives of others.
God is good!
Sister Slade
pictures:
1. Random picture of Sister Jelderks
2. One of the sock monkeys I made for Johana's little girl
for her birthday
3. Picture of me wearing an elf hat
4. sister Jelderks and I at Barnes and Noble
5. At the library I looked over and Sister Jelderks was on
the ground. It turns out she was fixing a shelf she accidentally broke
6. You see the 5 twin mattresses? All of them were in our
apartment until tuesday when we enlisted a member's help in donating them to
the Restore.
7. all but 4 of the sock monkeys i've made from left to
right they are named Lola, Fred, Debbie, Hal, Norma, Kyle, Fred, Will, Susan,
Ellen, and Zeke. (the other 4 were named Mira, Bob, Gon gon, and Al).
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