Dec 9, 2013 - Illinois

OKAY. So this week, was an adventure with not having a car. SO much fun. We had probably 5-7 appointments set up for this week and we had members that were able to take us and be there, guess what happened:) my favorite thing! EVERY single one of them fell through! wah. :/ But on a good note, we had to walk ever where (i lost 4 pounds) so we found lots of new people! For the most party they seem pretty legit.

We also had a zone meeting.. ahaha i love those. SO they split us up between elders and sisters.. so you know what we're going to be talking about.. YUP modesty and appropriate relationships with elders. Joy. We also talked about safety so that was cool. :) I LOVE when President Woodbury talks to us. I feel like everything he says is just for me. (last week i wrote a very honest letter to him about some things i really don't like, things i've learned, and things i want to do..) and everything he said to us just comforted me, and helped me find a way to work through the hard things i'm going through... So that was really nice:)

So the whole time we've been in this area, we've been teaching a less active. She hasn't been to church in probably over a year.. She drove us to go pick up her car and then we went out to eat with her family. SO nice. Anyways, guess who came to church yesterday! It was her birthday and all she wanted was for it to snow and for her to be able to go to church. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Aahhhhh i was so happy to see her there! So was the rest of the ward :)

So the Christmas party was interesting... The food was yummy. We had Larry, Brenda, Kate, and Scott there! Scott is Kate's husband. It was a lot of fun. Brenda did some line dancing and Scott and Larry made some friends! :) It was really happy :)

The Christmas Devotional last night was awesome, i guess in the past it's only been the First Presidency? But they changed it so they had the Primary President and someone from the Presidency of the 70 right? and Russell M Nelson:) WAY good. My favorite was probably the Primary President, What happened next? So good. :) Definitely watch it:)

Oh and TRANSFERS: Sister Spackman and I are both staying in this area! Crazy! This will be our 3rd transfer together, good thing we're super good friends. haha ;)

Well it's getting closer to Christmas... Let's all drop the last syllable as President Monson suggest and catch the real meaning of the spirit of Christ. :) Have a fantabulous week! :)

LOVE, Sister Holden

 

I forgot one tiny thing we did, for Thanksgiving, we made cookies and wrote little notes to our investigators telling them how grateful we are for them. I think it went pretty good:) They were all really surprised and happy. One of our investigators gave us this indian delicacy, it's like mashed up carrots cooked in condensed milk or something.. Tastes kinda like sweet potatoes. Not sure how i feel about it. ha but it's a healthy dessert ;)

I feel like there is something else that i'm missing to tell you about...

A less active told us that they wouldn't be home when we wanted to drop off their christmas party invitation so we were just going to leave it on their door... well as we were walking away, they opened the door! Awkward. But i don't think they saw us...

This week is going to be fun. Can't wait to tell you if i'm being transferred or not:) I think Sister Spackman is going to be..

Antioch's library is the cutest :)

Brenda at the Christmas party:)

This is Sister Nikula(the one who came to church)