Well, Thanksgiving is over, so it is officially the Christmas
season! And I am going to be honest - Thanksgiving was a struggle. We had two dinners
- which were amazing - but I didn’t feel good after our dinner the next day,
which was Thanksgiving leftovers. Everything tasted amazing, but three Thanksgiving
dinners is apparently my body’s max. I ended up having to come inside like two
hours early because I was in so much pain. But I'm all better now! Medicine is
awesome.
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| Thanksgiving Day |
Well we got transfer news yesterday, and I am officially ending my mission
in Taylor, Arizona. Sister Cahoon is going to Scottsdale, so she gets to go to
70-degree weather right as it starts to snow here (it's snowing right now, but
not very hard and it's not cold enough for it to stick on the ground). My
companion is new to the mission so I haven’t met her yet, but I am sure she is
awesome! She will come up the mountain tomorrow afternoon. We have a member who
I met at dinner yesterday who will be my companion while I am companionless.
She is a super cute old lady who teaches seminary at the high school.
This week has been really good, we met all but one of our goals and exceeded
more than half of them. That basically just means we got to teach a lot of
awesome people about the gospel that I love so much. We are still getting to
know everyone from our new area but I love them all already.
We had a really cute lesson this week with one of my favorite
families to teach. It’s a bunch of kids that are SO funny. Like I just want to be
them when I grow up. I don't even understand how they can have as much personality
as they do when they’re so young. We taught about the godhead and the
differences between Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. It was
pretty presh.
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| Awkward goodbyes |
We have this new family to teach who are so awesome. They are so
ready to change their lives in simple ways to come closer to Christ. It’s a mom
and her 11-year-old daughter and they read and prayed about the Book of Mormon
and said they felt so happy when they prayed. It was sweet for them to get
their answer that it is true. I know Heavenly Father answers our prayers as we
are willing to follow Christ's example.
We are doing this Book of Mormon reading as a mission where we are reading
the Book of Mormon in 65 days (the same amount of time it took for Joseph Smith
to translate it). It has been so nice to read big sections at a time. I am
getting a lot more out of the story line reading it this way. I love reading
and focusing on the doctrine that Christ taught us. It has strengthened my
testimony of the Book of Mormon so much. I know that as we follow the teaching
that are taught in the Book of Mormon we can find happiness in our hardest most
stressful times. I am grateful for the comfort it brings me.
Sister Ho Chee, a sister that we live with, finished her mission
today. It was very bitter sweet to say goodbye, but I will see her at BYU, which
will be fun. So half our apartment will be new starting Tuesday. It’s going to
be an adventure!
I love you all and hope you are having a fun and safe holiday
season.
Much love,
Sister Doxey
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