Transfer 5, Week 4: Merry Mission Christmas

Hey Everyone, 
        I know it's not Christmas yet. But who cares? This week has been full of many crazy things, some good, and others not so much. but one thing I will say is that this week flew by. 
       I'm going to switch things up today, and start with the lower end of the spectrum, so we can end on a high note.:) The saddest thing that happened this week was involving our investigator John. No, we haven't got anything back yet so we're still delayed, but there is a mini story about him. 
      We were going to our normal lesson time with John. When he answers the door, we talk, but he very abruptly tells us that he never wants to talk to us again, because he feels people are being a little too nosey with his past. So all of a sudden, our "On Date" investigator has turned into currently a big pile of nothing. We're planning on giving John a little time to calm down, and then get a little clarification from him on the situation. 
      But on happier news, Christmas has been going for like a whole month for us. So in one of our wards, they have erected a gifft box for the missionaries(us). And they filled it many times over with food and snacks. We have much to eat now. Yay! 
      This week, besides receiving Christmas gifts from home, I also got a great gift from the Mission home. It was my Tiwi card. For those of you who don't know, in mission vehicles there are these little boxes glued to windshield called Tiwis. They are expensive driving monitoring systems that track where the car is and the current speed of the car. They also give gentle reminders to drive safely when not obeying certain traffic laws, or reckless driving. Anyway. You have to have a little tiwi log in card to drive in the mission, so that tiwi will work. I was not allowed to have my card because of stupid stuff I did back home before the mission, but I received my card this Friday, and I have permission to drive again. Yay!!
        Next Zone Conference.  Zone Conference was great. We got up at 4 am, to shower and go pick up the zone leaders by 6 am, so we could get to Helena by 7:30/8 am for a musical practice session. Elder Allen was playing his cello for zone conference. But we had to drive them because they're truck is still out of commission. The meetings were great. We recieved a lot of new instruction of how we are going to focus on our key indicators, rules, and making sure our faith is strong. We also had a great time doing Christmas skits. The mission gave each of us a couple presents. It was a lot of fun. Then we went to dinner with the assistants/our zone leaders and the Helena zone leaders. We went to Applebees. It was a lot of fun. Elder Petersen in the end, unbeknown to the rest of us, paid for the whole meal. So the other 7 of us took care of the tip and put in whatever cash we had. It was pretty fun. But we didn't get home till around 11pm. Yay, what a long day.

         We got to go the baptism for the Sisters this week. I had to get some paperwork done. It was a great service.
        Not really anything exciting happened the rest of the week. so that is all for there.
        Well, it is Week 4 of "Light the World". This week is focused on "Light your Faith" I would encourage all to watch the week 4 video, and think about what they can do to light their faith in our Savior this week.
       I can't wait to see all who will be on the Christmas Call tomorrow. I hope you all have a great Christmas, and I'll talk to you all next week.


Love,
Elder Sherwood

Now, No pictures today :(

Our Christmas call with Elder Sherwood