Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!! I surely did!
Let me start from the beginning of the week..
On Monday for preparation day we had a Christmas party for all the sisters in our zone. We held it at the institute building in Chapel Hill. We had a white elephant gift exchange, clothing swap, and ate a lot of treats. After everyone got what they wanted from the clothing swap there was a lot of clothes left over from past sisters, and lets be honest nobody wanted it because it was all pretty ugly. Well we decided we all needed to make the most hideous outfits we could. So that is the story behind the picture below. We had such a great time all together laughing and enjoying this special time we have to be missionaries!
Christmas Eve was a great day. We had district meeting in the morning and then we made some cookies to deliver to people which was lots of fun. Then for the evening we went to a family in the wards house. They had invited lots of people over so we just sat around and ate and talked. It was great company and a great evening. And then of course we came home that night and had to open our pajamas from our parents and head to bed.
Christmas was such a wonderful day!!
We woke up and opened our presents. Then got ready for the day and did a little studying. We had invited the sisters in our district, Sister Treu and Sister Ashworth, to come over for breakfast that morning. We made a big breakfast consisting of german pancakes with buttermilk syrup, sausage, bacon, gingerbread pancakes, and fruit. After we ate we had a joint companionship study and read Christ birth story out of the book Jesus the Christ. We had a great time but then we had to rush off to our next thing. We went to have lunch at Sister Riders house. She had invited some other people over who also might have been alone on Christmas. We were still full from breakfast but we had a good time visiting with them. We then had to rush off to our next place. We went to another family in our ward, the Newharts, to spend the rest of Christmas day with them. We got to skype (which of course was the greatest thing of all). We did a puzzle and just hung out and relaxed until dinner. Time passed so quickly as we rushed home to be back before 9pm. It was such a great day! So great that we were really dreading waking up the next day and having to go back to the normal routine. Cant it just be Christmas everyday?! Our Christmas decorations are still up and probably will be for a while. We are still mourning.
So we have been planning this thing for a long time but the rain kept getting in the way of our plans. But Saturday it finally happened, we set up a free hot coca booth at one of the busy parks close to downtown Durham. We had gotten everything donated from people in the ward and we were hoping that this would be a great way to meet people and give out some material along with hot cocoa. It turned out really well. We handed out about 60 cups of hot cocoa and talked to many people. We didnt get any new investigators from it yet but we know seeds were at least planted!
Things are going so so well with J and her son A. We had another great lesson with them this week. J accepted to be baptized on February 7th and she said she would talk about it with A but most likely he will get baptized then too. They are just so amazing and so prepared and so elect. I am so grateful for the chance I have to teach them and then get out of the way so that the spirit can work in their lives! Miracles are happening.
I can not believe the year is coming to a close this week. I can almost officially say that I spent the whole year of 2014 as a representative of Jesus Christ and a missionary for His church. This year has truly changed my life forever! I am so grateful for my time here in North Carolina. I wouldnt have been able to learn the things I have or experience the things I did in any other way shape or form. Bring on 2015! I am ready for another great year with different new experiences and lots more to learn.
Love,
Sister Judd
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