Christmas Time in Fenton, Michigan

Hey Everyone!

So I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, because I sure did! :)

So Christmas Eve, we had our mission wide Christmas celebration, where we made lots of wooden cars for kids in like the ghettos of the mission, as well as for whoever we thought would benefit from

them. (We took 3 and gave 2 of them to a less-active single mom with 5 kids under 10, and then I gave 1 to a kid in the ward named Max (The only little kid who has remembered my name)) Then there was a talent show kind of thing, and I played on a borrowed viola, and then we got to have a sweet instruction from President and Sister Gerber about the importance of the symbolism's in the temple, and how we need to make sure that we learn to understand them. It was super cool.

We got to be Christmas Ninjas, Christmas Eve (It's too secret for me to say anything else about it ;P) and I got to Skype with my family Christmas day!! Best present ever. Then we got to spend some time with an older, lonely guy in the Ward, which was actually really cool. He talked the whole time, and we just sat there and listened. But it brightened his Christmas as well as ours, so it turned out to be a really special experience. 

 

 (I made a Ford Flex and a Pontiac Aztek :D)

 

(Our little Christmas Tree)

Otherwise, this week hasn't been the most exciting. Pretty much no one wanted to meet with us, so that was a bit of a bummer (I think mostly because everyone was busy with like family and stuff) but this week should be good. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel with our miles though, so we're going to be doing some biking. But it's okay, because this way, I'll be able to burn off some of the Christmas flab that I've acquired. Woo!

We got to chop wood with a member for an older couple in the Ward that's all injured up. That was a lot of fun, but chopping wet wood for 4 hours with a heavy splitting maul got a little tiring. Totally would do it again though.

We were invited by the bishop to come to a BYD (Bishop's youth discussion, or something like that) on Sunday, and the whole theme was to have the youth ask the current full time missionaries in the ward as well as some recent RM's questions about serving a mission and stuff. It was actually really cool, and I think the youth really enjoyed it. At least enough to turn what should have been a 45 minute discussion into an hour and a half. Good times.

So in case anyone is wondering, I'm not all that trunky, and I'm trying really hard to work hard. So now you know :)

Oh yeah, gas is less than $2 dollars a gallon!!! 0.0

Anyways, thanks for reading! 

~Elder Roderer