Hello family and friends,
Today has been crazy and I hardly have anytime to write but
I had an incredible week and will try to fit it all in!
Wednesday we had a specialize training with a few zones in
the mission. It wasn't on the calendar and none of us knew what it was
about. The training was all about an initiative that the church came out with
for the wonderful time of year. It was all on the new website christmas.mormon.org
This website is amazing and the video that the church came out with called
"He is the gift" is so awesome! Everyone should watch it. So basically the church is spending a lot of
money doing the "air" work and the missionary's and the members are
doing the "ground" work. They gave us each a ton of these new sweet
pass along cards to give away. You also
got 9 of these in the December ensign. I would invite/challenge all of
you who read this to pass out all of the 9 cards you got to friends who might
want to hear a little message about Jesus Christ. I loved this and it has
definitely helped the work here. It is amazing how much more receptive people
are to us and the message we share this time of year
The Christmas spirit is here and I love waking up each
morning and listening to Christmas music as I get ready each day! (Feel free to
send me your favorite cd ha-ha) Also my mission is having a Christmas
devotional and with that we are having a mission choir which for some reason I
decided to participate in! So I got to
go an hour early to this training for our first mission choir practice! It was
fun and I don't think any of us know how to sing! #sharethegift
Thursday was wonderful!! My companion and I got invited to 4
dinners! I had to politely cancel 2 of
those because I didn’t want to die! Eating at 2 was crazy hard and I still feel
a little fat. I have never eaten that
much food in my whole life! But I loved
Thanksgiving and it was so fun to experience Thanksgiving with people in Ohio.
Saturday was straight crazy and time went by so fast. We got
up early to go to the church to help set up a wedding for a less active lady in
our ward and her husband.
The other elders in my ward have been teaching her husband
and he is getting baptize next week with James, my investigator, but in order
for him to get baptize they needed to be married so we kind of threw it all
together last min and the missionary's pulled off our first successful wedding!
ha It was great. After we finished
cleaning up that wedding my companion and I went to a wedding reception for
some new friends of mine out here! He (Luke) is from Utah and she (Ashley)
is from here. Ashley has lived in my ward since I got here and they were
married in the Columbus temple! The house I painted Ohio state colors last week
was Ashley moms house. They are just awesome and they have taken us out
to dinner several times and are just good friends!
The reception was awesome and I sat next to a guy from American
Fork Utah that served his mission out here and now lives here with his family.
It is amazing for me to watch the lord put people in my path every day! Some
are for me to teach and some are just there to brighten my day and to remind me
that the lord is aware of me.
Sunday was great as well. The 3 hour of church was combined
and the bishop taught us all about family History. But later that night we got to go to our
mission open house which is where we can bring and investigator or new member
family to our mission presidents house so that they can meet him. 7 of us (me
and my comp and 5 of the Crouse family) piled into the Crouse little 5 seater
car and drove to the president’s house. It was so much fun to be there and to see all
of my old MTC friends and their investigators.
James is still on date for Saturday and I cant wait to tell
you all about his baptism!
I am sorry this letter was short and didn’t talk much about
my investigators.
Hopefully someday I will become a good letter writer!
ha
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving,
Love Elder Roper
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