Elder Justyn Pollock

   This was one of our busiest weekends in a while! We had the mission Christmas Devotional/Music Program on Friday which was awesome! We the missionaries sang I feel the Savior´s Love and I Stand All Amazed. There was also an entire music program prepared by the mission choir (almost all sisters) that was way good! Jesus´ family attended along with the recent convert Monica´s family. All of Friday was dedicated to that.

   There was also the Saturday´s sessions of conference and we spent that day inviting people to that session and Sunday´s. It was fast Sunday so when we got home at 9:00PM Saturday we did our planning, got ready and went to bed a little early, since our time after planning is usually used eating popcorn or cereal haha plus we were exhausted that day. On Sunday we had the main session of Stake conference. It was an awesome session that I liked alot! The stake had all of the return msisionaries sing in a choir. 

   On Sunday night we had the baptism of Jesus!! I was way happy to see him being baptised. He´s a way hyper and funny kid. The story of how we found him, though I think I´ve already told it in another email... While going to an appointment we felt the impression to turn into a street and knock on a door. We knocked on it and invited the lady that answered to church but she wasn´t interested, so we decided maybe we needed to knock on the next door. For illustrative purposes, that meant taking 5-6 steps since the houses are built right together. On the next door a lady came out and greeted us happily ¨Hermanos¨! She told us her name, Gardenia, and asked us how we came to her door as apparently nobody including missionaries had visited her for a long time. It turned out that she, with her 2 kids and their stepfather that lives there, are all members that haven´t gone to church for almost 10 years! We invited her to church and she came with her daughter! In that next week she introduced us to Jesus who is a nephew, but who she raised and who had been with another uncle for a couple weeks. We have been teaching that family and the Mom and daughter have come back to church! The daughter also has the goal of going on a mission, possibly in spring. We are trying to help the older son and Dad to come back as well. The baptism was a great experience and I´m thankful for the spirit guiding us to that family.

   As for food, this week we went to Carls Jr and had bbq burgers. Way good! Plus Chocopic as always.

  Hope all have a great Christmas this year! Visit Christmas.mormon.org to see a cool video.

Elder Justyn Pollock