December 22, 2013

Dear family,

Merry Christmas everyone!! I'm so EXCITED to be able to Skype on Christmas!!! The 26th actually for me, but Christmas for you. 

 We have been trying to get member present lessons here in the mission. The Mission president has been really asking us to all do it, so our action plan for the week has been to prepare and invite members to come to lessons with us. I hope we can get a lot, being Christmas week it could be pretty hectic. Looking forward to it though! 

Let's see, brief overview of my week. 

We, the Elders from Waimate and us, went down to the bay to take pictures and stuff for Christmas cards, and we also had an exchange with them so I got to go down there for a day. small town, real small. It was alright, we stumbled on this lady who is on the DO NOT CONTACT list for us, and she seemed super nice, a less active, but when we called the Mission Pres. about it, he said Don't go there, don't go on the street, get the Branch involved and leave it. 

Elder Tarati and I went to a shop having a sale, and we got a couple shirts. I got a Batman one, he Superman. I put up pics in Dropbox of us wearing them, and also the Timaru sunset and our Christmas tree in the flat. We had one in a box! So we set it up and got it all decorated.  We've been doing a lot of biking, which is good for exercise  and trying to help the branch and people out as much as we can. We haven't been able to teach as much because it's been getting real busy, but we do visits and stuff as much as we can. Had a pretty good week overall. Hope you're all doing great, and hope you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 

Love and miss you all! Remember the Reason for the Season! Keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas!

Elder Passey