Alohaaaaa! :) (That's what our ward mission leader would say if this was his email.)
Some guy came up to our door while we were in the car and started telling us his whole life story. I was really trying to listen intently, but something kept throwing me off. He was telling us, "I stopped drinking, and smoking marijuana, and smoking crank.... it was so hard. But yeah, I stopped doing crank and smoking and everything..." I was thinking crank, crank.... is he talking about crack or is this some new drug I haven't heard about. Anyone ever heard of crank? ;P
President Eaton showed us that Youtube video of the Piano Guys and other people in that largest nativity thing and man that song has been in my head since. I can't get it out. Sister Flamm and I have just been jammin' to the same like 10 second part over and over in our heads. It's horrible. Oh well. It's great.
So we bought a Jillian Michael's workout DVD. It's a 4 week thing and we finished week 1 last week. Here are a couple inspirational quotes that Jillian has enlightened my soul with:
1) "Perfect is boring! IS PERFECT BORING?"
*her little buff minions (and me and S.Flamm) shout "YESSSS!"
"It's not about being perfect! It's about giving it all you've got!"
2) "You should be feeling pretty uncomfortable right now. When we are uncomfortable is when
we change!"
Went on an exchange this week. Sister Parry (who came out the same time I did) came here with me. We knocked on some person's door who said we could come back and this is what happened:
*KNOCK*
Little girl cracks the door open saying "Who is it?"
Sister Parry gives this priceless creepy face and says, "THE SISTERS!"
The girl immediately slams the door.
Naturally, we wait there.
The mom comes and opens the door and says... "Are you guys from the Mormon church? We are getting ready to go and don't have time. Plus, you guys are really creeping our family out."
*Shuts door*
I had to contain my laughter all the way to the car.
Life on a mission is just too sweet.
Speaking about mission life. Our life has been jam packed full of Christmas parties and events. Bishop Johnson here in Pioneer Valley has the hook ups and got an ice sculpture and catered Mexican food and a light system. So that was pretty gnarly. And Silvercreek ward had a great breakfast and food drive donation thing which was a success. Pretty sweet. We also had our mission white elephant gift exchange thing... I got a yoyo. Which everyone proceeded to show me up on.... I guess yo-yoing was a phase back in the day that I apparently skipped. Ah, well. I can practice... maybe, but maybe I'd just rather watch everyone succeed. That sounds good. :)
Luckily, I borrowed some ugly Christmas sweaters from Sister Rushton. Although they were pretty big and looking back on the pictures, probably not the most flattering things. Oh well... you live and you learn.
OH man! At the mission Christmas party people did musical numbers. S. Ballard. OH MY GOSH. She did this INSANE piece on the piano. Mhm. That was my comp. She's a champ! I was jammin' the whole time to her skills. It was ridiculous. I don't know how her fingers can move so fast. She had her new comp flipping the music pages like a hundred times because there was so much! So sweet. :)
Found out my companion plays the sax. Played it all through high school. SO sweet. Wish we could find one so she could play and I could cry (joyous tears.) :) She says she's not good... I don't believe her.
So we walk into this girls house and her pit-bull attacks me. She was lifting up my skirt, jumping all over me while I was standing. Then I sit down and she was like mauling my face and ripping out my hair and chewing on my arm. -__- So fun.
Endure to the End. It's so cool that Heavenly Father wants us to grow so much. We are promised that when we follow Christ and His teachings we will be blessed. Why does it sometimes feel like we're not being blessed when we are trying to do what's right? God doesn't give us the blessings immediately so we can exercise our faith. We have to have faith that the blessings will come and continue to press on even when we don't see them. It's the same with making bad choices. The bad consequences don't happen right away because God wants to give us a chance to exercise our faith and repent before having to make us feel guilty. Such a perfect plan! I say this because usually it is after a long day, working hard the whole time and the last 15 minutes of the day a miracle happens. We cannot give up at the current moment because things aren't going as we want them to. Keep going.
"Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life." 2 Nephi 31:20
One choice doesn't save us. It's the process of continually choosing. Pressing forward. Not giving up. Through Christ's Atonement we can all have the strength to keep going. I promise. I know it's true. I've felt it in my life and especially on my mission. Good things await. :)
I heard at church this Sunday that we wouldn't have Gethsemane if we didn't have Bethlehem. In other words, we wouldn't have a way back to God if Christ never came in the first place. So let's remember Him this week and forever.
Watch the Nativity:)
LOVE YOU ALL!
MERRY CHRISTMAS. :)
Until next time, I'll be doing it the Federal Way.
Love,
Sister Pearson :)
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