Turkey Bowl!

Thanksgiving was so much fun! Much better than last year haha. We were able to go down to Buc for it. We had a turkey bowl, which I'll get you pictures of sometime. We all wore thrift shop granny sweaters. :)

There was also a huge thanksgiving feast which, while not Bapa's cooking by any means, was pretty dang good. There was turkey (they deep fried 7 or 8 turkeys for this!), amazing funeral potatoes, candied yams which I love now and had like 5 pounds of, and even american homemade rolls!

Again, not like back home, but still pretty good. Safe to say, this thanksgiving was much better than last years, which consisted of sitting in a stairwell for 2 hours and eating McDonalds haha. Hopefully the comparison with Christmas will be just as drastic! :)

 

This week, not that much crazy stuff happened, but we had a super great member missionary activity where we went on splits with the members and visited less actives! We were able to teach so many people in that one night! I was able to go to a less active member who has been a member for more than 20 years, who is now inactive. He has received lots of support from the church in past years, and semi-recently, he was cut off from that and after that he got mad and stopped coming.

He and his wife both have lots of health issues, and he doesn't have a job, so life is pretty hard. And every time I have gone over there, he usually talks about all of his problems and how he hasn't lost faith in the church, just in the members. And neither me nor my companion ever know what to say in those situations other than "Well, that's too bad. Please come back to church." We have no experience or knowledge to tell him what to do there!

But it was so great this time because basically, the member I went with just told him what's up. We talked a little about Job, and how his life is still great compared to Job. The member that I went with knows him pretty well, and is friends with him and his family, so he knows their situation very well.

It was wonderful to see how he just told him straight up what needed to happen, but it wasn't forceful or out of place. It was great!

I really hope we get to do an activity like this again. It was so cool. And can I just say how great it is that this one member just got back from his mission. He's the best thing that's happened to this branch since I've been here. He's a great branch mission leader and he's still so pumped up about missionary work. It is so great to be able to work with him. We now have an active branch mission leader! Who's freaking awesome! Life is good let me tell you what.

Well, love you all. Stay wonderful.

Love,

Elder DeGraw

 

P.S. it snowed. It's officially winter. booooo