We have had a fun, holiday filled week!
To kick it all off we suffered through Thanksgiving. I say "suffered" because we attended 4 Thanksgiving meals. We were forced to eat at every single house. I have never eaten so much jello in my life. Most of the food was pretty good, we just couldn't enjoy it because the thought of eating any more made us sick. We got to the last members house and just CRASHED on her table. She laughed at us because she served a mission in California and knows how we feel. She told us about eating so much, her companion threw up in front of their car. She said it was dark so the headlights of the car illuminated her companion so the whole apartment complex could see her. She went to see if her companion was okay and the smell hit her so she started throwing up in front of the car too. I thought I was going to die laughing. We felt pretty close to throwing up at that point. We ate at one house (the native american man's house- I've written about this family before) and they forced us to eat all of these DISGUSTING dishes. I have no idea what they were. Sister Armstrong told me she's never eaten a Thanksgiving meal where she didn't know what 90% of the food on her plate was. Luckily one of the Spanish elders is super clumsy and knocked their gross stuffing off the counter and broke the bowl. Blessing in disguise. At another house, Sister Armstrong and I were placed at the kitty table away from everyone else, so we ate really SMALL portions at that meal. We tried to cut corners where we could, but everyone still managed to get us. Our funnest meal was at the LDS Chaplain's house. 23 airmen (members and their friends) showed up for the event. It was SO FUN! We met lots of their friends and hopefully we can get them to all come out and get to know the branch some more! I love working with the air force base. A highlight of my mission.
We helped an elderly couple put up their Christmas tree and lights on their house and such. This couple feeds us every Thursday and have been feeding missionaries since the 70's. They keep our pictures in a photo album that goes back to Katrina. (all the pictures pre-Katrina were destroyed). It helped me feel less homesick because I was able to participate in Christmas traditions with a family.
I didn't have a chance to email yesterday because we had our Christmas zone conference. I accompanied an elder in a special musical number. It was nice (mom, I used that christmas hymn arrangement book you gave me for christmas last year!)
I'm looking forward to a zone conference this weekend with Elder Zwick who is the 70 over missionary work. Or something like that. We just found out about it so I don't know anything yet.
Life is good. Our investigators have kind of plateaued for now. We're hoping that we can get things moving again now that Thanksgiving is over. Say a prayer for us!
Love,
Sister McElderry
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