This week has been (as usual ) Packed with all sorts of amazing things! We've been working our little tails off up here in Huntsville and been having a blast!! So here goes a little run down of what went on this week!
monday: We had an awesome p-day and then ended up being able to obtain a violin that will last me my whole mission! I spent that night practicing a melody of Christmas hymns with another elder so that we could perform at the talent show on Tuesday!
Tuesday: As i said, we had a talent show, but more then that we had our Christmas party as a mission. It was fantastic! We started of with a silent devotional. We listened to music and looked and pondered on how we can honor our savior this christmas. It was a very reverent and really spiritual expirience. I learned a lot about how to 1) Love my savior, as his mother. 2) Serve him, as the angels do. 3)to use his atonement, like those who seek him 4) to give all we have, like those who adore him. It was awesome! I invite you all to ponder those things :) After that we had a great dinner and the talent show. (it went well for me, as well as it could with like no practice, and some others sang some of the most amazing songs too! really cool talent show) Then we got to watch Frozen haha, it was just as fantastic as ever and all the older sister missionaries who hadn't seen it loved it! So it was an awesome day all in all!
Wednesday: We taught a few awesome lessons and a really good english class!
Thursday: We had an exchange. Elder Jordan (one of our zone leaders) came with me and we did some awesome contacting and then went out to Decatur. He served there like a year ago and so he was able to show me where the hispanic areas are so that me and Elder Kellogg can work more effectively. We also were able to teach a few lessons to some investigators out there and will be going by again on Tuesday to continue teaching :)
Friday: We exchanged back and had an awesome district meeting! We each trained on something relating to captain moroni. I trained on how to better an area... theres a scripture in alma 53 verses 1-6. i realized you can take Moroni's example of taking a strong area (the city of mulek) and through dedication and trust in your fellow men (Lehi)(aka your companion) you can change an area to be even stronger! Thats one goal me and my companion have set is to make our area the strongest it has ever been by following the qualitys of moroni found in alma 48: 11-17. So the whole district meeting was awesome. Definitelly one of the best of my mission!
Saturday: We again had just an amazing activity giving out hot chocolate. We also had a bunch of people tell us they would like to hear a Christmas message and so we are going to send out some texts and calls and hopefully go out and teach a bunch of people!!! :)
Sunday: We had church which is always a blast in a spanish branch! they love to be loud and funny and make fun of eachother. its awesome! Then we went to the chessmens (an awesome english family) for dinner.
So all in all, a really good week! Some stuff that happened that i cant remember the dates exaclty are we ran into martin again who now wants to prepare to be baptized!!! So we are shooting for the 31 of january! He kind of fell of the map before but now seams to have had a change in heart. we are hoping to keep working with him and see that date happen! :)
Its also christmas and my birthday this week so we are very excited to skype and just have a fantastic holiday season! If anyone hasent seen the he is the gift video, please go watch it at...
and if you have seen it, here is a video that holds the world record for the most people in a single nativity scene! Check it out! It was made in response to he is the gift and is an awesome song to say the least!
I think thats the adress! If not, look it up on youtube, it has david archulleta in it so it shouldnt be to hard to find haha.
Anyways, i love you all so much, have a very merry christmas!
-Elder Steele
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