Hey Everybody!!!
So tons of stuff happened this week!!!!
First of all it was so good to see all of you!! You all
looked great and seemed like life is treating you well. Thank you for all the
gifts! I was in desperate need of socks and the pants you sent me are on point!
They’re like my favorite pair, they make my butt look so good!! haha, JK.
Thanks for the oatmeal/date cookies dad, they are bomb!! Thank you for
everything and not forgetting about me out here. I hope all of your Christmas's
were grand and full of love, happiness and tender moments!
We had our mission Christmas devotional on the 24th and it
was so good. I will try to send out the video of all the baptisms we had this
year. We had 429 yeah baby!!!!!! That many souls took upon themselves the name
of Christ and are one step closer to return to the presence of their Heavenly
Father! It was very bitter sweet though, a lot of missionaries that I have
served around my whole mission and the sisters that we started our missions
with in the MTC left for home on Saturday :( I’m on death row you guys!!!
So big news, on Christmas evening I got one more gift from
President Kendrick. He gave us a call as we were driving to some basketball
courts to play with some other elders, (until you are a missionary you won’t
understand how freaking scary a random call from your mission president is),
and he asked if I would be willing to take on the assignment of district leader
and trainer and I said yes. So starting next week I will be providing trainings
and discussions for my district meetings every week, I will be conducting
companionship exchanges, I will be doing an assessment of missionary progress
for transfers, I will be making phone calls just about every night, I will be
conducting baptismal interviews, and a whole slew of other responsibilities
that just got put upon my shoulders. I will have to be on the top of my game
because I will be an example to the missionaries in my district. It’s crazy!!!!
haha, I am going to have so much to do. Funny thing though, I have been praying
just about every night for Heavenly Father to provide me with opportunities to
be a better missionary, to be a tool in His hands, and just a better person.
And looks like I’m getting what I asked for! Be careful what you pray for guys.
Oh, and I found out yesterday that I am actually not going to be training.
President Kendrick gave me a call out of the blue yesterday and told me they
made some changes, so I am off the hook. Also, I am finally being transferred
out of the Palomar Young Single Adult ward. I am going to miss it so much. This
has been hands down my favorite area in my mission so far. It will be strange
transitioning back into family work. I will be back this weekend hopefully for
Ryan's baptism!!! Yup, he committed to baptism for the 3rd of January!!!! And I
will be back for Blake's as well as soon as he receives permission from Salt
Lake.
We weren't able to have too many lessons this week because
of the holidays, but the ones we did have the spirit was full to the brim. We
had a lesson with some less active kids in our ward. They're names are Paola,
David, and Raul. First the first little while we were there we talked about
skateboarding and stuff since they were watching a Street League competition.
At the end I was able to share a scripture on the Atonement and bare my testimony
of how he knows and has felt exactly what all of us are going through. At the
beginning of the lesson Paola seemed fine, but towards the end she was in
tears. (The Spirit is real!!!!). It was awesome because they all want to do the
right thing and it’s hard for them sometimes, and after that lesson they all
couldn't wait to go to church the next day!
The sisters had a baptism last night for one of their
investigators, Gia, that we were instrumental in assisting them with. It was
crazy though, the adversary did not want that baptism to happen. He tried to
take out one of our sisters and Gia both!!! Before sacrament meeting sister
Edgecomb was herself, bright, smiley and full of light and energy as always.
But halfway through the meeting the sisters left. Sister Denny came back and
said that she was feeling absolutely terrible and nauseous and the same thing
with Gia about 10 minutes later!!! So we gave them both blessings by the end of
sacrament they were themselves again like nothing had even happened. (The
Priesthood is real!!!!). Her baptism was wonderful. It has taken her a lot of
sacrifice to get where she is now and to even be baptized since her family,
especially her father, aren't very fond of the church. It was a very somber
moment to see her go under the water.
We had a lesson with one of our recent converts last week
and he has a few dogs, one being a skinny little Chihuahua named PePe. When we
got to his house and were on his porch PePe was barking hysterically at one of
our ward missionaries, Kenny that we had brought with us. It was weird because
he usually never barks at anyone. So Josh held him close to Kenny to sniff him
so he would stop barking, but instead of sniffing him he tried to take a chunk
out of his shoulder!!!! I felt bad for Kenny but it was hilarious, we all had a
good laugh.
I almost forgot to tell you about our mini missionary. We
have a youth from the Murrieta stake joining Elder Fitzpatrick and I for the
week so they can see what missionary life is really like. His name is Cody, he
is a stud!
Well I love you all, wish me luck (or pray for me, that
would be best!)
Onward! Ever Onward!!
-Elder Daniel
Gia's baptism!!!!
-Christmas socks!!!!
-Our mini missionary Cody!!!
-Christmas Devotional!!!
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