Hi everybody!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
This past week was really good! We did back-to-back exchanges for Tuesday and Wednesday, which was really fun, and also totally crazy. We exchanged with the Zone Leaders and then with Enterprise. And nothing ridiculously problematic happened on exchange with Enterprise. Usually something always goes wrong that results in us getting home super late. Not this time! It all went super well. And I really enjoyed being with Elder Duncan when we exchanged with the ZLs. He's really fun and we taught some really good lessons.
I was so tired this week. Being a missionary is exhausting anyway, and being super busy with exchanges and stuff didn't really help. I actually fell asleep in a lesson. And it was while I was talking! We were teaching about the Sabbath Day, and then mid sentence I just sort of dozed off. But get this, I was still talking! I guess sleep teaching is a thing. I dozed off but then several seconds later I was vaguely aware that my mouth was still moving and that there were words coming out. Then I woke up, kinda nervous that I had said something crazy or nonsensical. Luckily, I didn't, and Elder White (my companion for the day) didn't even realize I had dozed off. So I guess I know that lesson material well enough that I can autopilot if I ever doze off again. Haha, I'd rather not ever do that again though.
As all of you probably (hopefully, haha) know, Christmas was on Friday! That was so fun! I got to call home, which is pretty much the greatest thing ever. But now I have to wait for Mothers Day before I can call again. Talk about Post-Christmas Blues.
December 26th was both awesome, and also really stupid. I'll start with the stupid. I got sick AGAIN. I'm feeling mostly better now, so I guess it was just sort of a 2 day thing, but it did not feel good. I felt a little annoyed because I just got over being sick a couple weeks ago, but then I realized what day it was: December 26th, my half birthday. I have gotten a cold or something every single Dec 26 for the past several years. I think there was only two or so years within the last 7 or so years that I wasn't at least mildly sick with something on my half birthday. I'm not superstitious or anything, but this always seems to happen. Even on my mission. Not cool.
Now for the awesome part of December 26: Bernie and Sheri got baptized! That was really cool. I got to baptize them too! The tricky part (because a baptism can never just go as planned) was that our ward mission leader ended up being out of town, as well as the bishop, so word didn't spread around the ward like it was supposed to and only a few people showed up! But it still turned out good, and they were confirmed on Sunday.
So that's pretty much been my week. Fun stuff, except for the getting sick part. Today we get to go to the St. George Temple for a special mission temple trip! Going to the temple is always fun, but this is
going to be really awesome being with all the other missionaries!
So yeah, that's about it for today. I hope everyone has a great week and a great New Year! Good luck on those resolutions! May The Spirit be with you all!
-Elder Oswald
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| District Meeting. Most of our senior couples were missing due to it being Christmas Eve. |
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| Bernie and Sheri's baptism. |
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| Special missionary trip to the St. George temple. |
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| Elder Christensen and Elder Oswald |
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| Elders Christensen, Oswald, Howard, and Holt |
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| It was so much fun seeing Elder Howard again. |
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