Merry Christmas to everybody- hope it was good! I
always am a little bummed after Christmas because the anticipation and
lead up to Christmas and all the good that comes with that just suddenly
ends. But as with everything else that passes, it's always best to
move forward, keeping in mind the lessons that you've learned to make
later experiences in life better.
With the holidays, things have been kind of slow.
Focusing on specific individuals has been hard and so we've just been
doing a lot of preparing gifts for people in English class, preparing
and executing APFs (area proselyting focus- activities we do with our
zone where we come together and either set up a table on the street, go
tracting in a specific area or something along the lines of that), and
lots of other little things here and there. Getting past New Years will
be great because then we'll be able to get back into the swing of
things (which is something I really feel like I haven't experienced
since I got here right after the hurricane, followed by Thanksgiving,
followed by Christmas).
I can only think of a few particularly exciting
things that happened this past week. First off, we had our mission wide
Christmas party so it was cool seeing everybody all together in one
room. That might be the last time I see that, especially after all the
new missionaries come in. Also we went caroling a couple of times and
that was really great! I love caroling and was glad I had the
opportunity to do it here on the mission. It snowed as we were doing it
on Christmas eve so that was really nice and it felt pretty iconic
(White Christmas in New York City- good stuff). It's snowing again now
just as we're about to head down town, so that'll be sweet seeing
everything with Christmas decorations still up all in the snow.
We had a great experience with an investigator too.
Her name is Aura and she called us earlier last week after we had
scheduled an appointment with her and told us that she really didn't
have any intentions of getting baptized into our church. We hadn't been
over to her apartment in a while anyways, so we had kind of already
dropped her, so we weren't terribly shocked. We went to the appointment
with a member that's good friends with her, and the Spirit was really
strong and we just were able to be lead to say some good stuff that
really touched her heart. The next day was Sunday and she came to
church and brought her kids and stayed the full three hours! It really
was a miracle and we're looking forward to following up with her and
seeing where the Spirit takes us next time. She has been taught the all
the lessons already. Twice. So we're going to be doing some good
thinking tomorrow in weekly planning.
That's about all I can think about right now. Thanks for all of the support once again! You guys are great! And Happy New Year!
-Elder Griffiths
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