The Week Before Christmas

Starting out this week on Tuesday we had trade offs and we had a member call us and he asked us to change a flat tire on his car.  We showed up and started tinkering around trying to get the tire out of the trunk and when we got the cover off the trunk the spare tire was literally inside a solid block of ice.  We tried a couple of things and then we called the member and said we would love to help, but there isn't a whole lot we can do.  Apparently they got it fixed because he was driving it at church.

On Wednesday Don drove down from West branch and took me and Elder Eccles out to lunch.  It was a lot of fun to catch up with him and reminisce about the good old days in West Branch.  He also got me a really cool mug that had all the different names for Christ written all over it.

On Thursday we did service at a soup kitchen where we handed stuff out to people.  It was a lot of fun and apparently the missionaries use to go over once a week, but I just found out about it so we will start going their more often

On Friday we made the long drive down to Lansing where we had the trainers follow up meeting.  That lasted most of the day.  It was a ton of fun though because we were able to catch up with a bunch of my mission buddies and it was like a mini zone conference.

Sunday we had an awesome day.  We went to church and after church we had two appointments.  One of those was with a fellow by the name of Dennis.  Dennis is an awesome guy this was the second time we have met with him and we talked with him about prophets and the plan of salvation.  When we showed up he had read up to 1 Nephi 12 which was awesome.  The second appointment we had was with Tom and Sandy.  They are a member referral we have been trying to get in contact with for probably two months now and we were able to sit down and share the plan of salvation.  Sandy kept asking us how do we get to the celestial kingdom so we left her 2 Nephi 31 which talks about the gospel of Jesus Christ and said we would come by in a couple days and talk more about it!  after Tom and Sandy we had call ins which took about an hour then we had a member invite us out to do some caroling we did that for about an hour.  Following that we had a quick dinner and we visited a part member family we have been having a hard time getting in the door.  We were able to share the Christ Child and the spirit was super strong and they loved it!  Phillip and Angela were both crying by the end!  After that we were about out of time for the day!

Pictures
-working at the soup kitchen
-caroling
-freezing on trade offs the feel like temp was -1
-lunch with don
-A frozen tire