Christmas this Week!

So as for calling the siblings I hope so but I don't know. I am going to try and get approval so tell them to answer a number that they don't recognize. As for when I will be calling, it will probably be around 3:00 my time and 1:00 your time.

I am really excited for Christmas this week. I remember that last Christmas was the best Christmas ever and if our plans all go well this year will be even better. For Christmas Eve we have planned that the whole Zone, 16 Elders and 4 Sisters, will come to Lafayette and we will go caroling around houses for a couple of hours and it will be awesome. We also hope to send a good message to people about missionaries and in turn the Church. After that the Stake President here along with his family will be taking all of us to an all you can eat Indian buffet for dinner. After that we will all be going to his home and having a white elephant gift exchange to finish off the night. Then that night all of the out of town missionaries will be spending the night with a companionship here in Lafayette. Lucky for us there is a set of Sister missionaries in town to be able to have the other Sisters stay the night. Christmas morning we will all have our personal studies as usual and then we will all be having a huge Christmas morning breakfast with Waffles (we got 3 Belgian waffle makers), omelets, sausage, milk, the whole shebang, then afterwards we will be having a Christmas devotional that will be our spiritual high for the day. After that we will play dodge ball followed by watching: Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration and then there will be more board games and volleyball and such things. So I am really excited because it will be a blast and a half.

Other than all of that this week was pretty good. We did a lot of finding this week because it was finals week and no one had any time to meet, and now we don't really have an area because Campus is a ghost town now. We also worked a lot on finding an apartment because this transfer we are getting 20 new missionaries and that means that we are opening 5 new areas in the mission and one of them is in our Zone, and they will Spanish missionaries. It will be awesome for this town of Frankfort because they say that 1/3 of the town is Hispanic and it is a completely untapped area.

So you might be thinking: well what are we going to do for 3 weeks if there is no one to teach. Well we have at least this week covered, we will be going and blitzing areas with other missionaries to help them out and we will also be going to Frankfort and Williamsport because there are no missionaries there and that means that they are all ours.

Well I look forward to talking to you all on Christmas. hopefully I don't forget, hahaha, just kidding.

Merry Christmas!

Elder Nelson