Such an exciting week! actually it's been an exciting month but this week specifically leading up to a day dedicated to celebrate the birth of our Savior! the Spirit of Christmas is alive and well in Alex City and I just can't help but smile!! If people weren't nice before, they're like saints now!! ahh love the south!! we were at the hallmark store and was talking to the manager lady about Christmas and she asked about our house and if it was decorated. I told her that my mom had just sent me like 3 ornaments and so now we have 3 ornaments on our tree and we were so excited to have them! She just smiled and went about keeping up the store. Well we checked out and was walking to our car when Sistah terry noticed her bag was bigger than what she ordered. she looked inside and that was not the stuff that she had bought. we quickly turned around and went into the store and the manager lady just said Merry Christmas and shooed us out of the door in a cute southern way, you know? and so we did. Well now we have 4 very special ornaments up on our tree and i can't help but smile every time I look at it! AND THEN! we went to this cute couple's house for a bible study they were holding and we told them this story and how cute it was and how it just brightened up our apartment and when we were walking out of the house we were given an ornament from them signed by everyone at the bible study and ahh just made my heart melt!! i love these people so much yall! so yes these people are saints!
Tuesday we exchanged companions for the day with our Sister Training Leaders in Millbrook and so Sistah terry went there and Sister Merrill came to Alex City for 24 hrs. SO that means that I had to lead the area ahh! but honestly it was so much fun! That girl is just the sweetest and chillest person ever! Love her! She's so bold and i just love it! something you need down here in the south!!
We've been teaching the cutest little family ever. they have just the sweetest little boys ages 10 , 8, and 7 and ugh just such a cute family!! we were talking about how we should be kind to our families and do nice things for them and i asked what happens when we do this? the little 8 year old looks at me and says, " well you just get a tender feeling in your heart." like ahhh my heart just melted right then and there!!
friday was our Christmas Party for the south part of the mission! and what a fun day!! sister Winter was there! i mean how much better can it get than that! but we also had training and a talent show which i weirdly performed in with a couple of other people. didn't go as planned but its the thought that counts right?? hahaha okay good! I will say though we performed with Elder Bradford who is legit trying out for Newsies on broadway when he gets off after this transfer, so when he is on Broadway I cannot wait to say I attempted to sing a pentatonix song with him at our mission Christmas party!! it's gonna be awesome! we actually got to watch a movie too! Zootopia! everyone felt like they were doing something wrong watching a movie, but i guess i haven't been out long enough cause i was just like, " finally movie time, let's get to it!!" like super pumped but oh well! i guess ill be weirder next Christmas!
Sistah terry and I got to teach one of our favorite ladies this week. Her name is Brenda! She is is in her 60's and lost her husband pretty recently...we have been meeting with her for a few months now and she has told us of the JOY she has felt as we meet with her and as she reads the book of mormon. One of my favorite things she told us was that the book of mormon to her was and "enlightenment" of the bible. She says that she knows it's true and bore her testimony of it and i just loved that!! We are working with her right now to help her recognize how that knowledge connects to knowing that Joseph Smith was a true prophet and that this is the true church on the earth. We are so excited to keep teaching her. We love her!
Funny Story time:
-on like the 2nd door i knocked on with Sister Merrill tracting, we were walking down this guys cement steps when my beloved Steve Madden boot deceived me and slipped right out from under me and i fell on my butt! but not just once! i then proceeded to make like a cartoon and fall down each step until i was at the bottom, just sitting there making solid eye contact with the man in the driveway across the street, loading lumber into his backyard, frozen,. just trying not to laugh. So after sister merrill and i busted up for a few moments, we went and shared a scripture with the man across the street! he accepted a book of mormon and wanted missionaries to stop by his house in birmingham! so it was for something!
- we got locked out of our house. again. but we sadly couldn't get our winder (window) open. which kind of put me to ease since if we couldn't maybe robbers couldn't either! but then after asking our neighbor to help us open our winder instead he proceeded to unlock our door in like 2 seconds. like oddly fast, which made me right back in the spot i was before, just a little creeped out that he was able to UNLOCK our door so quickly but all is well cause we were able to get our keys that were actually inside our house this time!!
-sistah terry tried to lay on her bed one night and somehow missed? and ended up falling hard on the floor on the opposite side of the bed hahahah good times!!
-got told by 2 different people how God wanted us to do illegal substances and tried to prove it to us with scriptures from the bible! it was quite comical if i do say so myself!
-got a missionary discount at a name brand retail store! i mean only in the south people!!
- Little girl prayed with us and she prayed that she would get to know Jesus so she would go to Heaven one day and be able to play with Him on the gold playground. just melted my little heart!!
well that's all for this week folks! I hope that yall have a very merry Christmas and remember the Reason for the Season!! One of my favorite Christmas videos is the one, a Savior is Born/ He is the Gift! Yall should try to watch it at least one time this week!! Well I hope that yall continue to Light the World!
Merry Christmas to All and to All A Blessed Night!
love,
sister kennedy
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