MERRY CHRISTMAS

Family and Friends,

 

This has been a great week. I have learned so much already being with Sister Ott. She is a fantastic missionary and I am super excited to be working with her.

 

I went on my first exchange as a Sister Training Leader this past Saturday. It was really fun. The sister I was with has been struggling with staying optimistic so every time we got into the car we would state at least one blessing we received whil we were out of the car, it was really fun.  We will probably be on an exchange at least every week so I will have a lot to report and a lot to learn over the next weeks.

 

We have been having a wonderful Christmas season. I feel so spoiled as a missionary around Christmas time. The primary in this ward gave us a huge box filled with goodies for Christmas - we even were given a chocolate nativity! We have plans for Christmas Eve breakfast (it was originally going to be on Christmas, but they asked if we could come Christmas eve instead so they could do other family stuff), Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas day calling home, and Christmas dinner. Everyone is making sure we have somewhere to go and stuff to do. It is exciting. We went caroling (just Sister Ott and I) last night to a couple people and have plans to do sidewalk chalk of the Nativity scene tomorrow. We are trying to spead the Christmas joy and also find people to teach all in one activity. It has been fun.

 

I have been studying the Christmas story a lot over the past couple weeks and it has been a great learning experience. A couple weeks back I was reading it in the missionary mindset and noticed how great the shepherds are in sharing the Gospel. They went with haste unto the Savior and immediatley went and told their friends. That is the kind of missionaries we need to be. We need to go in haste.  I would invite you all as you study the Christmas message this year to read it with missionary work in mind and see what you can learn. I promise it will be a cool experience.

 

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

 

Love,
Sister Cook