Ok so next tuesday we find out if we are being transferred and so pday is on a wednesday again, so I will let you know next week if I am leaving amherst or not. We'll be aloud to email you again if we are being transferd so that we can set up a time to do the skype call! I can't believe how fast it is coming!! tomorrow is my 6 months mark and I feel like i've been out for a month! but then I think back to the MTC and that seems like ages ago haha!
We had our christmas conference yesterday and it was so much fun! there we talks given about Christ and HIs birth. President and sister Pratt told us christmas stories, we had a big christmas dinner, there were musical numbers, we sang christmas carols and then we did a big white elephant gift exchange! The gift I ended up with was from elder olsen and it was a moose stuffy and a president trump chocolate bar and a new world translation bible that he got from a Jehovahs witness haha. Elder phillips who is one of my zone leaders got my gift, it was a big fuzzy blanket with a moose on it and some canadian candies haha. Our district also exchanged our secret santa gifts and I got the sweetest present from elder Olmsted. it's called a "wanderer's bracelet" and it has the coordinates of my first area on it(st.johns) he had jasper who is this ysa recent convert order it haha it is so awesome and it made me feel bad about my dollar store presents I got for elder clark.
Caroling on the mission is probably one of the most fun things I've done in my life haha. Last thursday was the first time we did it and the very first house we went to ( we went to a area where it is all just seniors) we were so nervous and excited and I knocked on the door and then we saw the grandpa living there get out of his chair so we quickly decided what song to sing and just before he got to the door we started singing and then he just looked through the binds on the door and turned around hahah we thought that maybe he was going to get his wife or something so we kept singing but he just never came back hahah. other than that all of the other houses were awesome! and the last house we went to was the best. It was this really old lady who had just had a hip replacement and her son and daughter were over and so they opened the door but as soon as she heard us singing she just sprung right up and started shaking her hips back and forth and they kinda had to calm her down a little bit haha but she just loved us so so much and they gave us a bag of popcorn at the end:)
sunday we had our first real snow fall and so after church the lee wens said that they have a tradition that they have to hit a missionary with a snowball after the first snow fall and so after church we all got into this big snowball fight:D it was so much fun. We also had our branch christmas potuck this past week and it went well, there were a few less actives who came, but the best part was that the zeltners (who are LA) came to church the next day!! I am preparing myself to be wiping out a lot this winter, sister lefter has already wiped out once down these people's driveway haha and the mom inside saw and asked if we were alright and we were just dying laughing! my bad circulation is catching up with me haha I feel like i am just walking on nubs haha but the power of our message keeps me motivated and there is always something to laugh about, my time as a missionary is so short and so there is now time to complain. I think living up in edmonton definitely prepared me to come here haha
oh also I got all of the christmas packages at zone conference!! haha I looked crazy with how many packages were for me, I had to explain to people that my birthday is this month too haha but I am just so grateful for every single package and letter and email! I know that I am love<3
there is more that I wish I could write but time is up!
thought for the week "Who is righteous? ANYONE who is Repenting it doesn't matter what choices you've made, or if you feel like you are a good or bad person, if you are not repenting you're wicked and if you are repenting you're righteous"
I hope that each day we can strive to become more like our savior, that is the greatest gift to give:)
love sister wood
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