Week 25 12/15/14

12/15/14

Hey Yall! 

This week has been a super crazy week! we had Transfers and a huge Christmas festival and so many cool things have happened! I got a new comp here in Huntsville, his name is Elder Kellogg and he is awesome! He is from Omaha Nebraska and has been out a bit over a year. We live in a different appartment as well. its the one i first lived in here in Huntsville. (670 julia st NW apt 8. huntsville al, 35816) We have found like 5 solid new investigators and we've been having a blast! Tomorrow we also will be having our mission Christmas party and a talent show! Ill be playing a cool Christmas duet with an elder named elder shirts. He is a super talented pianist and i can play the violin so it should be great!

Alright, so on to more details from the week haha. Monday and tuesday nothing super exciting happened, mostly tracting and talking to people but sadly nobody was really interested those days :/

Then on Wednesday we went to transfer meeting in Birmingham and i met elder Kellogg as my new comp! we drove back to huntsville and then had to move our stuff to the apartment and thus our day was pretty much gone haha. We had some fantastic trainings from p-Hanks about having traditions though! how much they can build and edefy your family, create good memmorys, and how they are just fantastic all in all. So... Me and Elder Kellogg really took that to heart whilst shopping the next day...

So Thursday we had to go shopping and get some food. So we are at walmart and we were like OK. if there is a tree here for 10 dollars we will buy it. because a tree is something we both loved about christmas!  So low and behold there is a little live tree back in the back marked down to 10 dollars. we put it in our car and then spent some time setting it up and putting some christmas lights we had on it! Then we went and visited donna (a cool old lady we teach on occasion) and she just happened to have ornaments! so we now have a really cool Christmas tree in our apartment! for a total of about 15 dollars (including the stand we had to buy haha.) im supper stoked for it! We even made the tree a name badge, his name is stan and he is small but he is mighty! haha. That night thursday got even better though! We drove down to Decatur to contact a few people we found last week and we ended up teaching 3 amazing lessons all in spanish and finding 5 different people that really want to know more! Ill make sure to keep you all updated next week. This Thursday we should be able to see them so as long as they continue to progress we will be happy campers haha.

On Friday we helped out at the Huntsville Christmas festival!  It is a one of the biggest activities of the year here in Huntsville and is insanely beautiful! They turn the entire back of the church into a walk through live nativity. It is phenomenally well done. costumes and sets are just amazing! then you walk into the gym and the entire thing is filled with nativity sets from all around the world and amazing Christmas trees all decorated on the professional level. But to top it all of, there is a choir that performed 8 times over 3 days. They Were AMAZING! when you think church choir you do not think super good... but these guys are mo-tab status! they had a full orchestra and the organ and all sort of cool bells and it just blew me away! so many people were crying because of the spirit present there. It was an amazing experience.

Then to top off the week, on Saturday we had once again an amazingly successful hot chocolate in the park activity! in the course of an hour and a half i bet we talked to over 80 people easily and gave away over 160 cups of hot chocolate! We even saw some of the people we invited to the Christmas festival there the next day on Sunday! 

So all in all, This week has just been one of the best of my mission. Lots of good work, lots of success, and lots of fun! i think thats kind of the key too. 

Working hard becomes hardly working when your having fun doing it! 

Thats our goal this transfer, is to work harder then we ever have on our missions as of yet, but to have more fun doing it then ever before. We have our attitudes turned all the way up as high as they can go on the enthusiasm scale and we are ready for an awesomely successful 6 weeks!

Thats my little spiritual though for the week. that you can choose to be as happy as you want to be, so why not choose to be happy!? abraham lincoln even said "Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." So i challenge everyone to choose to be happy this week. Watch the difference it will make in your life, and the lives of others. 

I love you all so much!