To start off this amazing week last Tuesday we were in the gym playing sports for p-day and our mission president walked in with our investigator Chris and he told us that Chris got approval from the First Presidency to get baptized!!! He's been waiting for a year and half to 2 years so we are very excited!! Our mission president is coming and hopefully previous missionaries that taught him can come too!
After p-day was over we took Janette to the Mormon Battalion to hear the sister missionaries sing for Christmas
On Christmas Eve we had a really good day! We had district meeting in the morning and then we had dinner with the Crandall-jennings. She is the stake relief society president and her husband just got baptized a little over a year ago and she has 3 daughters. One is on a mission and comes home soon and one is in college up in Irvine. I told her to look out for a Elder Johnson from Denver! :P
We had an amazing Christmas! We woke up and opened presents - I got a pretty sweet watch made of wood - and then we went over some members' house for breakfast and to Skype home! After that we went caroling to some recent converts and some investigators and stuff and we had a blast.
We had dinner with Janette, one of our investigators. She has been struggling going through the holidays without her husband so she really liked having us over. We're going over again on the 5th for her birthday!
Being a missionary on Christmas is weird haha. In a good way though. We did't see any crowded malls or even going shopping. We got to focus on the birth of our Savior. This Christmas I have thought a lot about the sacrifice it took from our Heavenly Father to let his son go and know what was going to happen to him. It must have been so hard. I'm just thankful for his perfect plan for us!
The day after Christmas we got to work at the temple and talk to people that were coming to see the lights! That was way cool!! A lot of people were like "don't they usually have sisters do this?" and we were like "yup" haha but they let Elders do it during Christmas with the sister missionaires. We talked to a lot of cool people and were able to tell them a little about the temple and stuff. We had to write down how many people we talked to. Elder Fraughton tried to tell me that it wasn't a competition but I didn't believe him, I'm pretty sure after they see how many people we talked to that they are going to have the Elders up there more often haha :P
The day after that I got sick haha and I have had a pretty nasty cold ever since. A member gave me some medicine and cough drops and tissues though, so don't worry Mom haha. Another member gave me a scarf so hopefully I start doing better soon haha :P
I think that's it for now! hope you all had a good Christmas!!
Love
Elder LaRochelle
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