Christmas Season

 

Well this short 5 week transfer has come to an end! Elder Winn and I are going to be staying together for another transfer here in Pineville. We are pumped! This is also going to be a 7 week transfer, so we don't have to worry about getting moved until February! The unfortunate part about this transfer is they are closing the Alexandria Elders area, so we are losing our roommates who we have gotten pretty close to0. All is well though and this transfer should be great!

This week we had so much going on! Zone Conference was last Tuesday and we were able to instruct at that on becoming personally converted using Preach My Gospel. The best part of the Conference was our Mission President dressed up like Santa and we all got to sit on his lap! He's the best Mission President ever!

With Christmas coming up this week, I have seen so many people open their hearts up to the gospel. This really is a great time to be a representative of the Lord.  

Love you a'll have a good week and light the world!! 

Love Elder Gordon

Letter from Dec 4th

Ok so this week went as follows: dying of pain, got a shot in the butt 3 times, scared a mom from Jerusalem, talked to a kid from Jerusalem, had food from the Butt Hut, WOW, had a long drive home, had fun at a zoo, and had Thanksgiving dinner for the 7th time!!!

So last Monday was the worst, after emailing we went to the church and I had a migraine, I took a nap on the couch, then went home and it was worse there. I went to bed with a ton of pain! Woke up and then it was still there so I went to the urgent care close to our house. They told me I had Sinusitis, so they gave me 3 different shots in the butt that fixed it. Along with a handful of drugs as well. That night we went out and showed a ton of people the Light the World video, it was fun. We came to this one door and the Middle Eastern girl...opened the door and she jumped back like 10 feet when she saw us! Then she shut the door quite quickly, then a second later a younger boy (17 years old) came and talked to us for a minute it was cool to hear their story.

Wednesday, I am not quite sure what we did I know we did something.....Thursday we drove up to Natchez Mississippi to do exchanges with the elders up there and that was fun we went to go eat at this place called the Butt Hut and wow was had this smoked brisket burger thing it was for sure not good for me but it was so good! We went to go see people and knock doors it was a good day for sure Friday we got up early and drove home so we could make it to our district meeting, and wow that was good. I did the lesson beforehand and I took yarn and did this iron rod thing and it was super long and there was a couple of obstacles that were very hard if there was no help, it was fun but the idea was there are things in this life that we just can't do unless we had help from the man upstairs. So when there were these obstacles they needed to pray to get help and it was just way cool. The rest of the day was good just went out and about.

Saturday we got up and did service at the zoo all morning and that was fun, it was fun to have people come up to us and be like "Oh that looks good" or "hey where is this or that." We were like "I don't even work here." It was funny for me ok! The we had dinner with some of the coolest people ever! Sunday was just a normal fast Sunday, we had Thanksgiving dinner that night again it was fun for sure but I am way sick of that kind of food, but overall life is grand...

Love you! Have a good week!

Love,
Elder Gordon

Snow! An Early Christmas Present

ok so last Monday, we went back to play more games, it was fun but super tiring.  Then we had dinner at some member's home, they have two boys that stay with them (they are grand kids) that need help! It was a stressful dinner there is always one of there boys throwing a fit! But oh well. Tuesday! We had district meeting then we had a appt. It was nice, we had lunch at Sam's Club, and then we had interviews with President Varner.  Wow that was the best for sure that man is the best for sure!! 
Wednesday was a day for nothing we went here and there and then played B-ball at the church it was a fun, Thursday we drove to Baton Rouge we ran some errands, then had a meeting with the Zone leader in BR  then we saw an old member from there and wow that was cool!! Then we meet up with the AP's for EX's and that was a blast, we went tracting and we saw a ton of people and we taught a bunch of lessons. We had a great dinner with one of my real good friends from there, and it was just funny!!! 
OK so all day long people were getting after us because it was cold, and then they would tell us it is going to snow tomorrow and I was like ya right it! Well I got up in the morning and it had snowed like 2 inches and is was still snowing so ya it really snowed here is was way fun I got to make a snow angel!!! It was just the best, then we drove home, and then we had a dope birthday lunch and party for one of the elder 's that we live with, then a really fun dinner appt with some older people, it was over all the best day I've had in a good while!! 
Saturday was the best missionary day ever!! got up on time then worked out we had the best study's then a bomb lunch, we did some killer planning then we went and tracted for hours and not one person cared!! We then had our Christmas dinner at the church and that was fun, I had a really good come to Jesus talk with this girl from the Alex ward, it was the best! Sunday we walked to church, the had a dope 3 hours of church  we had dinner with some of the best members ever!! It was a good week indeed!!!



Anyway love you all! Have a good week and understand why Jesus Christ Died for You!!!