Family,
This week was full of wonderful events. We had the opportunity to eat lunch with one of our members who has a brick pizza oven in her backyard. She cooked for our whole zone. It was an awesome expereince seeing as how her son and the sons of other sisters there are serving missions right now. Sister Jensen was the hostess and she said she told her son she was feeding us and I echo his response, " Feed the missionaries! The only thing you could do better would be to have them teach someone in your home." That is a truthism.
Donna was supposed to be baptized this saturday but fell ill and had to go to the hospital. We have visited her a few times and she seems to be in good spirits. She has been the topic of many of our prayers as of late. Her plan is to be baptized once she is released from the hospital.
The food here is so wonderful! At the beginning of my mission I thought white people food was very boring but now my opinion has changed. We rarely get the same thing twice. And with the holidays we get a lot of great food. Speaking of the Holidays, Elder Reese and I decided to go on a 10 day diet from Dec1 - Dec 10 to make up for the glutony of Thanksgiving and prepare ourselves for Christmas. However, on day 2 I caught Elder Reese chugging from an A&W bottle! I continued on for the next couple of days. But then.........Mom's package arrived with the most delicious brownies I have ever tasted! So my diet has been ruined as well but with great food!!!
I love my new camera!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much! I cannot wait to put it to use. I think I am going to start using it for video journal entries and perhaps I can send those home.
Transfers are coming up on the 19th. Pray that I don't get transferred right before Christmas!!!!!!! I love the people here and would love to spend this holiday with them. But the Lord's will be done. To prepare for the CHristmas season I have been trying to develop my relationship with Christ even more. I have started by reading Jesus the Christ by James E Talmage. If you ever want to know Christ, this is an invaluable rescource of who He is!
The CHristmas Devotional last night was magnificent. I hope you all had the chance to see it.
Samuel plays the cello!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? That is so cool!!!!!! That is one of my favorite instruments to listen to!
Myself and some other missionaries are putting together a rendition of Little Drummer Boy for our Mission Christmas Party. I hope to film it.
I love you all and wish you the merriest Christmas ever! I will miss you all this season but you are the greastest present I have. My family. In the words of the contemporary carol, "I'll be home [next] Christmas."
Love,
Elder Cronin
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