Tuesday was an awesome day, While visiting people, we were running behind our schedule of who to see so we were going to skip a few names, but I really felt like we needed to go to this less active family, so we tried to get there and then got lost and ended up going the longest way there lol, when we got there no one looked home sadly, so we started writing a note to them that we were just going to leave on their door with the ward Christmas party invite, but sister Jones messed up the first note so she was about to start over, then a truck comes and pulls into the driveway! It was seriously by divine design, let me just say, so we get out of our car and it was the dad of the home who was just dropping something off real quick and then leaving. But he was so nice! I just knew we needed to see him and if we went any other time or didn't go the long way, we would of missed him. After that, we try to go visit a Potential in the area named Candy and on our way, there is a lady putting up Christmas lights and we wave to her and she waves back. I was like, we have to go talk to her! And of course the further away we got, other thoughts in my head come in and say, no, you don't need to go out of your way to talk with her. And so we got to this house and knock the door, no one answers, and i'm still in my head like should we go back to this lady we waved to? and so I was like, we are going back, why wouldn't we! So we walk down the street to this lady and we ask her name and it happens to be Candy! What are the odds of that?? So crazy, turns out she is a descendant of Brigham young and her mom used to be a member, but fell away early in her life. She knows a lot about the church and was super nice. She isn't interested right now, but I was glad we got to talk with her and bring those things back into her memory.
Alright! Thanksgiving was so fun, we started the day off by going on a hike down to the beach with our zone, and guess who came! Charlotte! (someone I had the opportunity to teach in Bellingham!) She was down here with her family and the YSA sisters where she goes when shes down here invited her to come! It was super fun to see her and catch up. After the hike, we had our Thanksgiving dinner at 2 with some members. It was super fun and the food was amazing! Our mission president and Wife invited some of the missionaries who live close to their area for desert with them and it was way fun!
We had dinner at our friend Jennifer's house, she is the sweetest person ever.
Sunday went well, we were very busy, but we had dinner at the Wildings lol, they are the best. We talked about the light the world initiative this year and I am way excited for it! If you haven't heard, this year is a little different than what they did last year. Instead of having 25 ways in 25 days of things to do, they have a focus each week of December. So week one is Light the world, week two is Light your Community, week three is Light your Family, and week four is Light your Faith. if you go on Mormon.org it has a video for each week and a calendar that gives ideas of what you can do each week! I know that the church puts in a lot of time and effort for this Light the world campaign each year, and I know that it is something that helps us to turn outward and focus on what this Holiday season is truly about. I hope you all can invite your friends and family to join with you to serve others and be apart of lighting the world this Christmas. I love you all!
Love,
Sister Stokes
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