Happy December :)

Hmmm. The past several days have been pretty unique. Not like anything else since I've been on my mission... for multiple reasons, of which I'm not even completely sure... they just felt different.

One reason is probably because I've been hit with the responsibility of training a new missionary. Which is proving to be awesome. We will both learn so much from each other. :)

Another reason was simply the schedule. We had a Thanksgiving activity (I had never been to an activity where all the missionaries come together before) and we had our normal schedule switched up because Sister Allen was just getting into the field and we had to go to a new missionary meeting and do some of our Preparation Day things on a different day and whatnot, so it was a bit scrambled up... nevertheless, we are back on our feet and ready for the next 5 weeks of the transfer. :)

Because of the weirdness of the week, I forgot to take note of the things that happened so I'll just try to mention a few that I remember.

Well, a member answered there door with a handgun. That was interesting... Sister Allen said she's lucky she didn't see it or she would have ran... she's already a little apprehensive about all of the dogs around here.

Oh, Thanksgiving. We had an interesting Thanksgiving. The first part of the day we got together with half of the missionaries from the Federal Way mission and played basketball, volleyball, ping pong, board games, and had a little choir practice for the Christmas program that we are having on the 13th. That was pretty fun. :) And then the Graneys always put on a little Thanksgiving thing at the church for anyone who wants to come, so we went to that and it was nice. We later realized only a couple random people said they would feed us dessert and so we didn't really have a place to go for dinner. But the brother who said he wanted us to try his cheesecake made us some plates of food and sent us on our merry way.... then we had 3 hours of planning. Woop-woop. Happy Turkey Day. :) Hahaha!

I'm realizing now that I actually have to drive, that the darkness really gets me lost even with a GPS. Thank goodness for U turns and curbs that you can drive on. Haha:)

I told Sister Allen that she came at a unique and awesome time in the field. We were able to attend a small wedding of a couple that we are starting to teach. It was the couple that delivered their twins extremely early and lost one of them. Well, the surviving twin is now with them at home finally and he is ADORABLE! And they were married on Saturday and we are now teaching them tonight... at President Eaton's home! No pressure. Haha. :) No, it should be amazing. We have so much hope for this sweet couple. They are examples of how a little nugget baby can truly change people. God has definitely had His eye on them and has a lot in store for them.

So yesterday we walked up to a couple who was putting up Christmas lights. We said hi and walked up, started talking about their lights and then said "Oh, there's a Nativity even happ..."  "Don't hand that to us, we will reject it. We are Atheists." *door shuts* Hmmm. We were taken a little off guard with that one. Haha! It was a tad confusing, but all is well. They were nice.

It's supposedly going to snow today. We had to scrape our windows for the first time the other day. This is going to be good. Haha:)

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and is enjoying this awesome time of year. :)

Love,

Sister Pearson :)