so much has passed and yet so little time to write it all!
Christmas was so good!! Well even the day before! Christmas eve was such a special day! The Spirit of CHRISTmas was everywhere and I loved it! It just filled the air! There's something special about the south folks! Well, we decided to go store contacting and hand out little cards to all the workers, thanking them for working on that day and that was so much fun! Seeing people's face light up just makes my day that much brighter!!
We then had Christmas Eve dinner with Sister Jones and her husband, and his sister! It was a nice evening filled with cheese fondue and laughs!! I just felt so at home when after dinner we all went and sat on the couches around the Christmas tree and started opening presents. Sister Jones even got us some fuzzy socks!! blessed cause we have only tile floors in our apt, but it was a nice evening and when we got back to our apt. sistah terry and I had a nice night filled with stories from the nativity! i loved it!!
Like I said, Christmas was sooo good! We woke up and had our own little Christmas morning with presents, hot chocolate, Michael Buble gospel centered Christmas music, and lots of whipped cream!! It was amazing! And what better way to celebrate Christmas then by going to church! It was such a special day! the Smiths gave the talks and they were ah-mazing! really just focused on the Savior and what a gift He is in our lives. Oh and i also sang What Child is this with Sister Glenn playing the piano! Love her! very random and not like me but I did it so theres that! And afterwards we saw one of our fav family the Hills!! And gave them their Christmas presents and all! We got Earline some fuzzy Christmas socks and reindeer pjs! She loved them and put the socks on right away!
We then got to Skype our families! That's right! I got to skype the fam!! it was so nice and so good to hear their voices and was just the boost I needed!! We then had dinner at the Glenn's and played Heads Up the rest of the night! It was such a good day filled with love, family, and Christ!
Still mad at ourselves for not getting one picture that day of sistah terry and I but oh well maybe we'll dress up again and no one will ever know.... but ugh still disappointed in ourselves, its whatever, im over it, obviously.
The day after Christmas we had our Zone activity where we had a white elephant game, a potluck lunch and went bowling! It was a ton of fun! I won a reindeer ring toss game and sistah terry won a fanny pack! made our hearts happy!
New years eve was poppin! We had to be in early and we played all sorts of games! shout out to sistah terry's mom for sending like a billion games for us to play that night! and then we made cheese fondue! shout out to sister jones and sister smith for the recipes!! and had some martinellis and went to bed before midnight! It was a fun night though!
We started the New Year off ion the best way possible! by partaking of the Sacrament at church! i mean how much better can it get! a fresh clean start! Also the mission pre, President Sainsbury and Sister Sainsbury spoke in our branch and that was so nice! Our piano player was out of town and luckily sister Sainsbury was there to fill her spot or we would've been left with me trying to play "Israel, Israel, God is Calling." right hand only for all 3 songs hahah. so blessed that they were there!
But sister Sainsbury's talk was so good! It was all about new beginnings & these are some of the things that she said, that I just LOVED!
-New Year. Same Dreams. Fresh Start.
- 2 Corinthians 5: 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
We can become New in Christ everyday THROUGH His Atonement! Like in 3rd Nephi 9:18 when Christ says, " I am the Light and the Life of the world. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." Christ has always been and will always be our new beginning. Let us make that our New Years resolution to have Him be our new beginning into this new year!
I hope y'all have a wonderful 2017 and I'll see ya next year! Just kidding! but i do hope it's wonderful for y'all!
Random Things That have happened!
- Hit my 3 month mark, weird but it happens, only 10 more years to go! just kidding!!
- this is my blackout year! Which means i'll be on my mission for the whole year of 2017, even weirder!
- yesterday we were in the house all afternoon due to some really bad weather. our weather radio kept going off and it was only for flooding. like come on, at least be for something good if your gonna scare us like that! but ya tornadoes were suppose to hit and they didn't... so blessed!!!
talk to y'all in a week!
love,
sister kennedy
We got to talk to Kaia on Christmas morning! Her and Sister Terry opened all their gifts from family and then Kaia said they sat there thinking what a chrismtas morning they had just had AND then remembered there was one more big box from us with presents in it she had put somewhere else...so they did round 2 of opening presents! (April)
The night before Christmas!
Out delivering cards to the Walmart workers on Christmas Eve.
More from Christmas morning and the infamous aftermath photo!
Zone Conference white elephant gift exchange and bowling party!
I LOVE that Kaia and Sister Terry had cheese fondue for New Year's Eve (again). Dave and I sat quietly at home on NYE's eating our own cheese fondue and we had no idea that Kaia was doing the very same thing that evening! Loved that.
Game night!
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