Week 65 - Where Are You Christmas?

Good day, everyone! Christmas season has officially begun. The main event of this week was this Christmas Concert for our stake that was held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It's the first time they've done it since covid and apparently it was a pretty big deal back in the day. They have always had many many non-members there so it was also to be a good missionary event. We've been handing out invitations to the program for like 5-6 weeks now. They wanted every missionary in the zone there every night to hand out programs and start conversations with people. It was a good event, but I'm kind of glad it's over. One can only listen to the same hour and a half concert for so long. It was pretty high quality though. The one song that hit especially hard for us missionaries was "Where are you Christmas?". It's weird because it honestly does not even feel like Christmas right now. It feels like we just had Christmas not that long ago, and here we are again. It is a seemingly never ending cycle at this point.

Our district did a facebook live event on facebook. It's not super great, but if you want to watch it it's on the Come Unto Christ in San Diego page. I thought it wasn't a good idea to do it at a conflicting time with the First Presidency Christmas Devotional. Plus, we were doing it right before the Christmas concert in one of the rooms at the Stake Center. During the event a couple people came by and tried to come into the room. When we ended we saw a sign that said "Boys Dressing Room". We're pretty sure it wasn't up there before, but oh well. 

Elder Reinhart is kind of an interesting and childish guy. Not in a bad way, he just has interesting behavior and humor. I sometimes feel like a single mom with a misbehaving child when he's distracted or misbehaving in public. The other day he used 12 eggs and bought a giant loaf of garlic bread and decided to make it for lunch. He was confident he could eat at least half of it for lunch. A quarter of a sandwich later he felt sick for some reason and we were late to our next activity. He finished the last of it this morning. Being in a 4 man apt with him and the other 2 elders is definitely an adventure, but it's fun.

Love you lots!

- Elder Wride