What's up everyone!! This week has been a good one.
Monday we went
down to the National Nall for Pday. We went to the this spot on the mall
where the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building, are directly in front of
you and then to your left the White
House, and directly behind you is the WWII Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial,
and on your right is the Jefferson Memorial. It is a really cool plaice where
you can see the history of this great nation in every direction. After we found
that spot we walked through the WWII monument to the Lincoln, all the way
around to the Jefferson memorial building then clear over to the capital
building, to the Library of congress. It was a long walk but it was worth it.
At the Jefferson monument, when we first got there it was silent and nobody was
there. Then all of a sudden busses of students came pouring in and it was no
longer quiet haha. The cool part of this was that there were two schools from
Utah there and we were treated like celebrities hahaha. Tons of the girls asked
us for pictures and tons of the guys asked us for mission advice. It was
awesome! At the Library of Congress we got lost in the basement looking for the
place to get our library card. We finally found it after walking around for
probably a half hour.
Tuesday we
got out a little bit early from our studies to go trackting and the Lord blessed
us. We only had an hour and a half before we had to leave to a meeting and in
that time we were able to teach two lessons. Both of them seem really
interested, but one of them lives in Georgia so we sent that referral off.
After we had finished we headed to our district/zone meeting. Once that
meeting was over we traveled to the farm and spent the remainder of our day helping autistic kids ride horses. We all really enjoyed it.
Wednesday was
our missions temple trip and that is always a great time! We are so blessed to
have a temple so close by. It has become probably my favorite Temple. The view
never gets old and inside it has an awesome colonial feel to it. After the
temple we ate at Olive Garden because one of our roommates had some gift cards
and he payed for all of us. It was very nice of him. The rest of he day was
spent by going to member appointments. The members treat us very well in this
area.
Thursday we
spent pretty much all of our day checking on less actives with little success.
We were able to get into one home and the people seemed very nice. We invited
them to the ward Christmas party and they said that they would try to come, but
they did not show up. We will be visiting them again shortly. Thursday was also
the first night of Festival of Lights at the temple and we were able to go with
a member. It was great! The lights look great! And the musical performances
were awesome!
Friday we
spent the majority of the early part of the day trackting. Later that day we
were suppose to go on an exchange with the mission president, but he ended up
not coming because he was really busy. We had a few lessons set up with
investigators. The one that did happen was awesome! His name his David. He is
from Haiti and he wants to look into our church because his girl friend is a
member. We taught him the restoration and it went very well. We
gave him a Book of Mormon and he got very excited.
Saturday we
had a finding activity that some sisters in the district set up. We went to the
metro and talked to people. It was pretty great! We were able to teach a few
lessons to people while they were waiting for their buses. Unfortunately they
were not to interested. After we had finished with that we went over to a
member for dinner. Once that was finished we headed to the ward Christmas
party.
Sunday during
church we had member pass out twice and so the ambulance came and picked him.
It was pretty scary luckily the Derwood ward is chuck full of doctors. When
Harold passed out, there were 4 doctors in the room so he was in very good hands.
After church we checked on less actives till dinner. After dinner we went to
the temple visitor center for the Christmas devotional. It was excellent.
I hope you all have an amazing week! Merry Christmas
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