Christmas:
Christmas was warm and windy! It was 85 degrees I think, so we definitely didn't feel a cold, white Christmas. We had a normal morning: woke up and exercised at 6:30, did some studies, etc. We had a zone activity in the morning and all ate breakfast together, and then we had a lunch appointment with a member. I had heard that I would eat a million tamales during the Christmas season (since that's a traditional Mexican Christmas tradition), but I have yet to have eaten 1 Tamale this month of December. Instead we've eaten more Thanksgiving-esque food than we did around thanksgiving! After that, we went around and sang to members, had a meeting with the Assistants, talked to people, pretty normal day :)
Road Trips:
Now we get to have exchanges with the sisters all over the mission! When we go to the far-away places (Corpus, Laredo, Brownsville) we drive with the Assistants and they do exchanges with the Zone Leaders. We usually have 3 hours in the car as we drive up, and the assistants have been trying "to get us out of our box, and out of professional mode." ha ha. On the latest trip to Laredo, they made us play the slug-bug game (where every time you see a Volkswagen Bug or a PT Cruiser you punch the person next to you), except we had to punch them. We both learned that we need to improve our punching abilities. We also got to tell a lot of fun stories and ask for advice, etc. It's amazing how much you can fit into 3 hours!
Exchanges:
I never really understood the purpose of exchanges until the last couple of transfers. In our new calling they're one of the most important things we do. It gives us a chance to work in the other sisters' areas and help them have more animo and faith and purely just get to help - it's a great opportunity to be completely selfless, since we're not in our own area thinking about what needs to get done, and just help and serve - and learn a lot in the process. We get to come up with a goal and a focus for each exchange (for example, we'll focus on faith and the goal will be to find 3 new investigators) and then we'll each work with a different sister and work on those things and talk about them throughout the day. We've had lots of really cool miracles happen as we've helped and served. If I've learned anything on my mission so far, it's that God is merciful, and as you forget yourself and serve others He takes care of everything else. It's super cool.
Okay, well I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that New Year's is equally magical :)
Love you all!
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Hermana Reynolds
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