(Sister Putnam)
Hello everyone! This week was pretty cool :)
Friday: Christmas!!
We video called our district & opened presents together,
it was really cute, I love our district so much. We went over to the Harbour
Pointe sisters' apartment & had breakfast together, which was creme Brule French
toast, & that was amazing stuff. We called our families & stuff too,
& wrote home & then we picked up the Christmas Dinner that one family
in the ward provided us with, & another dinner that another family in the
ward provided us with (one family provided dinner without signing up on the
sheet & so the other family signed up & we couldn't say no to both of
them) The first family gave us a dinner for 10 people, & we couldn't have
an "organized" gathering, not even a funeral for a turkey, but if it
was random & impromptu then we could do it lol. So, we went to the other
missionaries' doors & discussed "what if we had too much Christmas
dinner for ourselves" (wink wink) and "wouldn't it be so funny if we
just left our door open so you could smell the food" (wink wink) and
"what if you happened to walk past with plates in your hands & helped
to relieve us of some of the food." (wink wink). And funnily enough those
oddly specific things happened within 20 minutes. It was a great Christmas dinner.
Because 2 families provided us with dinner, we had 2 giant Costco pumpkin pies.
And they both gave us whipped cream. So, do we now have 2 canisters of whipped
cream in our fridge? Haha, no. You see, the week before, I had bought a whipped
cream. And later, Sister Madsen bought a whipped cream too. So, no we do not,
in fact, have 2 canisters of whipped cream in our fridge. we have 4. Well,
after we had Christmas dinner, we didn't have enough space in our fridge for
the entirety of the leftovers. So we pulled everything out & put Christmas
dinner in first & then there was one large tin of mashed potatoes that
wouldn't fit, along with our other food that had been there before Christmas
dinner. And nobody else had wanted any leftovers cause they were all full.
Buuut the Spanish Elders had always been complaining about how "nobody
feeds Spanish elders in the states" so we took that tin of mashed potatoes
& put some turkey & stuffing in it as well, & a pumpkin pie, (but
not a whipped cream or a cranberry ginger ale because it was like 11pm &
our brains had said "byeeeeeeeee")
& we dropped it off at the elders' door, knocked, & ran, so they
couldn't give it back to us. But here's the spiritual message with that: If our
fridge represents someone's heart, & Christmas dinner represents Christ, it
shows that we should first make room for Christ, then everything else will fit.
And sometimes your fridge (heart) gets too full to contain all of Christmas
dinner & we have to share it with someone who needs it.
Saturday
We did a service project this Saturday! A guy needed yard
work done so we & the Beverly Park elders came & we helped do yard
work. Afterwards we were exhausted & so Sister Madsen & I ate lunch
& then took naps & then we went to target (if we live in a hotel we can
go shopping 2x a week cause we have a smaller kitchen or something idk) I got
watercolors!
Monday
We had a social media meeting, then we took apart the big 24
pound turkey so it wouldn't be taking up as much space in our fridge. We talked
with a new friend, I don't know if I mentioned her in the last email but she's
been through a lot & she's such a strong woman! We attempted to dropped off
treats at a members house, but we didn't have the right address, so it was the
wrong house, so that was awkward.
Tuesday: Intelligent advice
We did lots of texting lessons on Tuesday, taught Reba about
how the gospel is revealed in every dispensation. We had another impromptu
lunch with the people in our hotel, using the leftovers from Christmas. It really
was impromptu this time haha. Also, we found out lady in our ward passed away,
& we were going to do heart attacks to some people in the ward but decided
to give them some time. We dropped off packages for Sister Madsen's family, we
did laundry, & we also had a lesson with an adorable couple in our ward who
told us how they met & it was a really cool story. On the district call,
Elder Knapp at some point said "oh yeah my phone broke today, the screen
cracked" & I said "can you send a screenshot?" & another
Elder said "Just put it in rice & it'll be fine." We're pretty
good at giving advice lol.
Wednesday: Less-fake adults
Before district council, Sister Madsen & I learned how
to check the oil in a car, so we checked that box & are slowly becoming
real adults! A girl named Elise called us, she's a member, & her sisters'
best friend is a convert but wants to talk to sister missionaries bc her
parents aren't supportive. So we called this girl, Jasmine. She doesn't know
bible stories well, so we told her about
Christ's baptism & when he went into the mountain & was tempted, &
we related it to her, how Satan will try to make her question who she is &
how she, like the savior, can resist temptation. She also asked where she could
find a church building in the location where she moved! We had dinner with the
Harbour Pointe sisters & then we visited an elderly man in the ward &
dropped off cookies to him. We talked to a recent convert, Karrina, who we've
been trying to get to take the new convert lessons, & she gave us cookies
& fudge, & we brought up getting her patriarchal blessing & family
history & she seemed interested & that was awesome! We hope that goes
somewhere! We came home & did facebook finding, One guy we talked to kept
changing the subject every time I brought up something that would lead into the
gospel. He eventually asked me if I was married & I told him "I'm in a
committed relationship with the Lord". As we kept talking to him, he just
kept talking weird & Sister Madsen who knows social media better than I do,
determined that he was a catfish so we blocked him lol. We tried though XD
I got several Christmas presents from people, and I loved
them all so much, thank you so much!!
I love you all, and Happy New Year! May 2021 treat us better
than 2020 ever did!
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