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| Erfan and I at the Christmas service |
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| At the refugee camp playing with object from outer space |
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| Christmas Skype with Elder Steenblik. Ben has ALWAYS picked his fingernails and for our Christmas present, he grew them out. He will use nail clippers for the first time at age 20. |
Yo Peeps,
I hope that you all had an awesome Christmas! We sure had a
great one here.
To start the week out we looked up a less active woman named
Stephanie from Peru. We went to her
house and she was home and let us in. She
is super awesome! Her husband is a non-member and she is pregnant and can’t
ride a bike, so she can’t come to church.
She invited us back for a Peruvian dinner! I have been getting so much
Peruvian food on my mission. It is
great!
On Christmas Eve we ate with the Prosman family. They are one of the most amazing families that
I have ever met! Every night before they eat dinner they read a chapter in the
Book of Mormon together. They are a super
sick family and we had an awesome Christmas Eve together. They have some family traditions that we did
with them and they performed some Christmas songs.
On Christmas there was a music service in the church and it
was really successful. A lot of
non-members came and we had 4 of our investigators that came and they loved it.
Everyone enjoyed the music and the
Christmas spirit. After that, I got to
Skype home! That was nice to see my mama. We ate dinner at the bishop's house with all 8
missionaries which was a partay.
My favorite thing about this country hands down is that they
have a 2nd Christmas on the 26th. On 2nd
Christmas, we went up to a city called Wassenar and went to a refugee camp. We served them hot chocolate and then played
soccer with them. They just took all of
the American missionaries to school! Haha, it was awesome. A couple of fights almost broke out and they
were all yelling at each other in Arabic the whole time. Only a few of the guys spoke a tiny bit of
English. We brought a football with us
and were teaching them how to throw it. They
looked at it like it was an object from outer space! They had never seen a
football before. It was really fun
playing with them, even though they just destroyed us.
We didn’t have a white Christmas. It was 60 degrees!
The members here are just awesome. On both Christmas and 2nd Christmas, we had a
breakfast, lunch and dinner appointment. They are taking good care of us!
We continue to have investigators drop us because of the
stuff they read online. It is so sad how
much anti stuff is online. Satan is
working really hard on misleading people and it is very sad to see. It is sure nice to know that everyone, whether
it be in this life or the next, will have the chance to hear the fullness of
the gospel and choose to accept it or not.
This was for sure one of the best Christmases of my life. It was a privilege to have one last Christmas
in the mission field. The church is true
and Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. No matter what the internet says!
Love you all. Happy New Year!
-Elder
Steenblik
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