Give Em Heaven: We bought a Christmas tree!! (Nov 6th 2017!)

This week flew by (as always)!! So Tuesday was Halloween and we had a pretty good day. We went over to our ward mission leaders house and had tea with their family. We had to be in early that night so we got home and spent that time studying a little more and catching up writing in our journals!

This week was kind of a load of rubbish missionary work wise! We got dropped by basically everyone, even less-actives we have been working with! But there was also a miracle!! We were going through the former investigators in our phone and came across this woman and so we called her and got her voice mail but then later she text us and said that she thinks about the missionaries and the church every day! And it was especially weird that we had called her because she mentioned that it's been ages that she has seen us around, but that morning, she saw us walking on the prom it "sparked some old feelings" from when the missionaries would come around! Then we called her and she said it was really strange!! Coincidence? Try again! Divine intervention folks!!!!! Heavenly Father is SO aware of us and our circumstances!

Yesterday was Guy Fawkes Night (Bonfire Night) but with it being on Sunday, we had a ward bonfire night activity on Friday night. Bonfire night (or Guy Fawkes night) is basically an odd version of the 4th of July but not really at the same time... In a nutshell, a long time ago a man named Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up parliament... but he got caught before anything happened and everyone was safe. So basically they are celebrating that nothing happened. Every year they do a huge bonfire with a scarecrow type thing hanging over it (representing Guy Fawkes because he wanted to kill the king so was killed for treason) and they set off some really lame fireworks! Good try England. Good try.... but it was fun being out with the ward and loads of non-members were there that we got to talk to!

Today, Sister Watt and I did something a little crazy (not really that crazy actually)... We bought a Christmas tree!!!! How could we resist!? So we rushed home and played some festive music and put it up. With no Thanksgiving here in this blessed land, it's straight to Christmas folks and I'm loving it!

Hope you have a FANTABULOUS week!! Love you all!

xx Sister Washburn