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Little Town of Bethlehem
Family!! Dec. 8, 2014
This has been a wonderful week
filled with Christmas! :) I just love this time of year sooo much! :)
I hope that you've been enjoying the season and that you had a great
week! I don't have too much time today, sadly, so we'll see how well I
can pack everything in..
We did a bunch of volunteering on
Tuesday. The senior center, of course, but also a community meal in
town. Littleton is just the greatest little town ever!! I love it
here so much, and they have so much going on, it is the best! :) All
these churches and organizations got together and they have this giant community
meal every Tuesday, and they all switch off putting together. It was
great being able to see it happen and help out with it! :) We also had a
lesson with our investigator who wanted us to come over even after he had
surgery that day. Pretty sweet! He felt really good and seemed much
happier now that it's all over and done with.
Wednesday was interesting. It
started out super great, which was good because later we got texts from two
different people who were in crisis situations. That was kind of
stressful, but with good attitudes we were able to get it figured out.
Definitely learned a lot on my mission and I'm grateful for the people that
I've known and the examples they've been to me, good and bad. That night
we helped the Young Women paint a bunch of Christmas ornaments, which was a lot
of fun! They're going to hand them out to people while they go
caroling. Also, we've been able to use the He is the Gift cards quite a
lot, and we've had so much fun talking to people on the street about what they
love most about this time of year. Good stuff! We've been able to
see lots of members and talk with them about He is the Gift as well. I
love it so much :)
So, our crazy day was most
definitely Saturday. We woke up and it was snowing and snowing and
snowing! We had our ward Christmas party early in the morning, and we
were kind of worried how the drive there would be. We made it, although
the roads were pretty slick. It was a great party with delicious food and a
talent show afterwords. We ended up getting signed up to do a musical
number with Whitney, a member who's almost headed off the the MTC. She
played the clarinet and we sang with her. It was pretty exciting trying
to hit some high notes, but it was a great experience :) After that was a
baptism of a 8 yr. old girl in the ward. I was glad we were able to
attend, the spirit was so strong! After that it was still snowing,
showing no sign of letting up. We made it home safely and did some
shoveling. Then we headed to 'Christmas in Bethlehem'...New Hampshire.
It was so much fun!! We talked with a lot of people. There were
people singing Christmas songs, a bunch of free food, they lit a huge Christmas
tree and had a giant bonfire. The best part of the night was definitely
the fireworks, though :) It was pretty sweet!
Sunday was also pretty great!
Church was good, then we had our last choir rehearsal till the day of the
Festival of Choirs, fun! After, we went to Bro. Lassen's daughter's
birthday party for dinner. It was so much fun being there! They had
just decorated the huge Christmas tree and there was Christmas music
playing. Lots of their family was there and we had a huge feast!
Bro. Lassen is such an amazing cook, it was wonderful :) The best was the
cake at the end though! Rich chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting
and filling...I was in heaven :)
This time of year just makes me
happy! Sister Maxwell and I are actually reading this book, Our Search
for Happiness, by Elder Ballard. Today we read about how happiness is the
greatest of all riches. I definitely agree. It makes me happy to
know that God loves me and that He sent His Son to atone for my sins.
Today, in one of my favorite parts he says, " You can never look at
yourself in the same way if you know that you are a child of God and that He
knows you, loves you, and cares about you. And you can never look at
others dispassionately if you know that they are your eternal brothers and
sisters who, like you, are here on earth trying to learn and grow through
mortal experiences, both good and bad." What a great blessing to be
able to know we're children of God! :) I know that as I continue to
strive to follow the Savior, I'll continually grow closer to Him and feel of
His love for me. I also know I'll have a greater desire to serve others
which makes me happy as well!
Love you so much family!! Have
a fantastic week!
Where meek souls will receive him,
still the dear Christ enters in.
Sister Bergeson :)
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