Hey!
How is everything going? I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas season!! :)
This past week we had a temple trip, two days of acting like temple square missionaries, and my companion has been sick. Needless to say, it hasn't been the best week for proselyting. But, its been a pretty good week nonetheless.
The temple was pretty great. Before we went in, I had the opportunity to see Sister McDougal, which was absolutely fantastic. I love her so much. She is probably one of my top three favorite companions (out of the three that I've had... but still. :) I love her), and it was just great to talk with her. We live 2 hours away from the temple (1st time I have not lived exactly 30 min from the temple...), and it was nice to fall asleep on the way there and talk to Sister Nokes on the way back.
The Madison Stake and our stake (The Huntsville Stake) put together a HUGE Christmas festival every year. They have a choir that is by invitation only, with an orchestra and they performed a bunch of Mack Wilberg songs. It felt like a Mini-Mo-Tab, especially during their closing number of Angles We Have Heard on High. They completely transformed the church to create a live walk through nativity (I'll show you pictures in my next email... sorry, forgot the hook-up), and they had 390 (or 100... there is some dispute about that number) nativities set up in the cultural hall. It was absolutely incredible. They spent a week putting everything up, and we spent two days acting as ushers or barriers between little fingers and the nativities. I was slightly saddened because despite the 390 (or 100) nativities in that room, there was not a single Precious Moments nativity. :) Christmas just isn't Christmas unless I get at least one chance to move around that nativity. Oh well. I'll just have to make my own with a paper snowflake. It was a great experience! I loved how Christmassy everything was. I was so grateful I had the opportunity to participate in that great event. but after 5 hours of standing on my feet with high-heels and only an orange to eat, I was ready to go home.
Sister Nokes has been slightly sick... Mostly she has the cold that I gave her, but she's had it about three times as long as I've had it. Its just a cold and it just means we have to take things slower than usual... but I kindof get the feeling in general I'll be going a lot slower than usual this transfer. LoL- all of my companions make me feel like I need to learn to slow down. At least I haven't killed anyone yet. :) And I'm trying to learn that... its just really hard when I have such an important job to do, and there are so many people that need the gospel so badly. But sometimes you have to work at the rate of your companion, not necessarily the rate you would like. I guess that is where that patience thingy comes into play. Well, if you could pray for us to run into some new investigators who would be ready to get baptized at some point soon, that would be fabulous. We could really use some of those.
Thanks so much!! I love you all!! Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
Love always,
~Sister Pratt
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