I can’t believe Christmas is coming so soon! How crazy! It hasn’t felt too much like Christmas time yet because of the warm weather, but it’s supposed to get super chilly this upcoming week, with a bunch of snow! So we are excited to hopefully have a white Christmas!! This week has been pretty good. We had a great time spreading the joy of Christmas to an old folks home this past Wednesday. We went with a bunch of other missionaries and sung to them for a good hour or so. They were so grateful for us coming to sing to them, and we’re going back every week to sing! It is always amazing to spread the Christmas cheer and the love of Jesus Christ, especially to those who are in need of it. I love the Christmas season!
There were missionaries departing halfway through the transfer to go home early for school, so we were in charge to taking Elder Evans around to have him say goodbye to people. He wanted to say bye to a bunch of people in Cheyenne, so we got to go up to Cheyenne Thursday night. He served in the wards I served in, so I knew most of the people he wanted to say bye to. We ate at the Turners house for dinner that night, and it was fun to catch up with them! They were some of my favorite members while I was serving up there! It was fun to see a bunch of the same people I knew!
It was a little frustrating this past week, because almost all of our set lessons with investigators fell through, and we were supposed to have six investigators attend church this past week, but none of them showed up...... but we know that as we continue to try and get them to come to church, we will be blessed for our efforts and eventually they will come to church! This next week, we are going to push so hard to get them all at church! We’re praying for miracles so it can come to pass!
Yesterday we had a wonderful day! We were on exchanges with some missionaries, and I was able to go with Elder Mitchell for the day! He is a really good fun missionary to be with. While Tracting before dinner, we found a man and his wife who wanted us to come back and teach them more about what we believe. The man told us that his wife only speaks French, and they wanted us to bring a French copy of The Book Of Mormon when we visit them later this week! We are excited to visit them! We also went Tracting later at night right after dinner, and we decided to go “singing Tracting! We went around and sang “Nearer My God To Thee” and “Silent Night.” It actually worked out really well! A family invited us in to sing to them, and it was awesome to see how they were feeling the Spirit as we sang. They weren’t interested in hearing our message, but we know we left that experience with them to think about! We had an amazing success as we met a woman named Luz. We introduced ourselves and asked her if we could sing a song. She said she would love us to. We sang to her, and it was really cool to see how music invited the Spirit very quickly! After we finished, we taught her about The Book Of Mormon and promised her that as she read from its pages, she would feel God’s love for her. She accepted a copy and told us we could come back on Wednesday! What a cool miracle! It was so fun to sing to people, and invite the Spirit of Christ into their lives!
On Saturday morning we helped some members in our ward with moving furniture from their deceased mothers retirement home to a Uhaul then we unloaded it into another apartment for a member of the ward. We helped them from 8:00 to 12:00, so they ended up buying us breakfast at McDonalds and lunch at Chick-fil-a! It was so nice of them to do that, and it was totally worth helping them moved all of the stuff. Elder Hatch and I were recruited for this to be the heavy lifters, so it was fun! Haha. We were lucky enough to have an elevator in the retirement home to get the furniture down to the ground level, but in the new apartment where we were moving the furniture to, we had to lift all the heavy stuff up a flight of stairs! After we got all the moving done, Elder Hatch and I were absolutely exhausted! They asked us afterwards if we could accept tips as missionaries. We told them we can’t, then they told us that they were going to give us a Christmas presents with gift cards to Texas Roadhouse as well, we told them they didn’t have to but they kept insisting. We can’t really deny Christmas presents can we? :) They are such nice members!
For Zone Conference this week, we have been asked to memorize “The Living Christ,” so I’ve been studying that a lot the past couple of weeks. I honestly had never vitalized it before, and I’ve learned so much as I’ve studied it! Here is a couple of lines that stood out to me,
“He gave His life to atone for the sins of all mankind. His was a great vicarious gift in behalf of all who would ever live upon the earth.”
Especially during this Christmas time, I am especially grateful for that great and wonderful gift that our Savior, Jesus Christ has given to us. He is the Gift. He has provided it for us because He loves us so much! Let us all turn to Him by serving others especially during this Christmas season, and always think of His sacrifice each and every day! I would invite you guys to read “The Living Christ” and ponder the words of the Prophets and Apostles, especially this week before Christmas. I know you will feel a deepened love for our Savior as you do so, and you’ll be able to feel His love during this wonderful Christmas season! Have a wonderful Christmas! I know I will out here in the mission field! I love you guys, and hope you have a great week!
Love
Elder Bailey
Pic: Singing at the old folks home!
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