Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Week 25: Happy New Year

These past few weeks have been really fun! The temperatures have dropped to between 5 and 25 degrees and it has not been above that much at all. That has been fun...

I had a fun Christmas. We woke up and went to our church building and opened our presents with the whole district. There was about 10 of us there and we all ate breakfast there. After church, we went to lunch at a member's home and then went to a different member's home and got to Facetime my family. That was really weird to only be able to call them but it was also a lot of fun. We ended up spending the rest of the night back at the church and being with those same missionaries and playing a few games.
Service with a smile! Just in time for Christmas!

We had a really fun New Years as well. Our church starts at 2:30 and that is so late. (We are changing to 8:30 this next week). So after church, we went and had dinner with a member who actually competed in the Olympics when it was in Sydney so that was way cool to hear about that. Then our mission president invited the missionaries that live close to his home over for the New Years Eve. We ended up playing ping pong and a game called signs. It was a way fun holiday.

New Year's Eve at the Mission President's home

We actually have 2 good investigators. One is named Ray Roberts and he actually has a baptism date set for January 13 which will be so awesome!! He has only been taking lessons since the week that I got to The Village but there haven't been too many speed bumps with him. Just the usual Oklahoma things like smoking and drinking coffee but that will be easy for him to quit those habits. He is so close. The other investigator has actually been investigating off and on for about 20 years now so that is kinda worrying me but he has made more progress in these last few weeks than the past few years. His name is Todd Walker. He was in a car accident a couple years back and he is mad at God because he thinks that it was His fault. We are helping him recognize that it is not and that he can actually be happy again through the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that it can once again give him a purpose in life!

Dinner with the Sturgeon family

Mission life is great!

Elder McMinn

 Kyle loves the older homes in his area. His days of watching HGTV are really paying off!
  

Now is the best time to start becoming the person that we eventually want to be.
-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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