Elder Gage Ockey: Christmas Week

Its Christmas this week! Crazy, it seems like just a few days ago that I walked into the mtc in August! What the heck its so crazy.

Monday was a basic p-day, we set up a lesson at 1 for an investigator that we haven't seen in a long time so we ate out at mc-dees because we needed to eat fast and get there, then she called and cancelled so we ate McDonalds for no reason. sigh* I hate McDonalds.

Tuesday was cool I guess, I gave a training in d-meet about the BofM which was cool. We went to visit a LA that we meet with weekly then out of nowhere his girlfriend that we didnt know existed walks out of his house (we meet outside) and joined us for the lesson, so it was weird because we have never met or heard of her before. Really took us off guard, but hey, another person that we can invite to come unto Christ!

Wednesday we had exchanges, Elder Jennings became district leader this transfer so we do an exchange where we switch companions with every companionship in the district for a day. So wednesday Elder Bartlik came to our area with me, this is his last transfer and he is a really hard worker, but his favorite thing to do is tract which I dont find to be effective. Good thing we had our day chalked full of lessons, we got a lot of good preachin in so that was awesome.

Thursday was the Valley mission party (everyone not in the desert) which lasted 5 hours, it was cool but I imagine it will be a lot more awesome after I get moved around a bit and know more missionaries outside of our zone haha. We were able to meet witht he investigator that flaked on monday, Alejandra's mom was baptized a few years ago but never went to church so the spanish sisters are teaching her mom while we teach her.

Friday we didnt get a lot of proselyting in because we had weekly planning, we invited Alejandra to a YSA party so we went with them to introduce her to everyone. Daisy was there as well, it was awesome to see how at the beginnig she was super shy and she pretty much ran the party activities on saturday. Shes more active than most of the members haha.

Saturday was another full day, we had to go get E. Jennings scriptures from the Tongan elders because they had them for some reason. E. Aso has a flashlight with a tazer on it so we ended up tazing ourselves haha. We practiced one more time for our singing as a zone that night, then we had to prep for Daisy's baptism which took a while, man those fonts fill up so slowly. Also funny story, we went out to eat some food and E. Jennings got a fortune cookie that said he would witness a miracle that day (Baptism!) We had a really good turnout as well. Most of the actives and a lot of less actives came which was awesome! Then after the baptism we went to go sing as a zone at this Christmas event they have on a main street, they had a bunch of professional choirs and stuff but we had the spirit haha. But it went fairly well.

Sunday was cool, YSA sacrament was full because of Daisy's confirmation, she is officially a member now! Thats so cool!

Anyway that was my week, I got a few pics as well.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Elder Ockey

1. me and the christmas tie and our tree (we have more stuff under it now)