HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas to all, and to all in America, goodnight because its bedtime there! This week was abosolutely amazing. I love this Christmas Joy and the smiles it brings to everyones faces this time of year. We all will hopefully be able to make it be able to make it through this email without our food comas getting the best of us and falling asleep! On Tuesday we were finally able to have 4 straight hours of study time. It was so so good to be able to study and teach/learn from one another. When we went to work we had lunch at a Sister Ana's house, who has offered to cook us food whenever we want! (And they says angels dont exist!) After we ate, we went to the Church and taught the Valdez family about Tithing, and Fasting. We had such a good time discussing tithing, what it is, why we do it, and most importantly what the Lord promises us because we pay tithing. They are such and awesome family and are so nice to us missionaries! Once the lesson ended, Brother Mike wanted to stay with us how neat is that! So he came with us to Brother Marios house to talk about the Word of Wisdom. Mario is such a strong man. He has weaknesses just as everyone else does, but he puts 100% trust and faith in the Lord and is always so thankful for the blessings he has received. Something that cracked me up happened later in the day at the Maaghop family house. Earlier Kate, the 12 year old daughter of Sister Areceli,got in trouble, and had to read the Book of Mormon in her room, and then tell her mom what happened in it and what she learned before she could leave! I love the parenting ideas!! Hahahah it was so funny to see how correct Sister Aracelis choice of punishment was in her thoughts. Kate had nothing against reading either so everything worked out good! ####### On Wednesday we were once again in Candon for a District Meeting. President and Sister Bangal came up to the Candon Zone for our meetings and gave demonstrations and workshops! I love the Bangals and all that they do for us missionaries and also the people here in the Baguio Mission boundaries. Sister Bangal treated us to lunch and on the way out of Candon, to celebrate Christmas early, Elder Scott and I treated ourselves to McDonalds of course! We did a lot of walking and meeting new people on Wednesday which was fun! ####### On Thursday, we had a Family Home Evening night at the Vallentos family! They were who we helped build the house a couple weeks ago, and so many people were there! I cooked chicken sisig for the dinner and we played games, and taught about our Savior Jesus Christ. Almost all of the discussions we had this week were focused on the birth of Jesus Christ. I loved being able to study, learn, and teache new insights about Christ and his extraordrinary life. The Vadlez's, Ruiz's and the Rosetes were all at the Vallentos for the FHE, and everyone had a smile as we played games, ate, and much more! ###### Friday was so busy but so much fun! A couple weeks ago, Elder Scott and I asked if we could have all of the Candon Zone missionaries come to Narvacan to go Christmas Caroling with the ward here! While we prepared for them all to arrive, Elder Scott and I wrapped several Books of Mormon with christmas wrapping paper to give to those people we planned to sing to! We had about 55 books to givev out and we all divided into 4 groups! Elder Scott went to one part of our area, I the other, and the same with Elder Baliwas and Elder Alvarez! My group had only 11 people in it... to start! BUT As we went through the neighborhoods singing, we recruited more and more people until there were 26 of us runnning the streets singing to anyone and everyone! It was so much fun and the other groups had a blast as well. One of the members here, Brother Marco, owns a restauraunt here called Abra Miki, its delicous! He offered to give all of the missionaries who came, free food! To make it evven more of a generous offer, it was the restauraunts 2 year anniversary, so it was packed. He gave us 3 huge pots full of food to take to the church and eat! S/O to Marco! We all ate as a zone at the church and then they left to go back to their area! ###### Saturday! Christmas Eve! It was so fun! Our landlady, sister Leah, invited us over to their house for dinner so all 4 of us missionaries ate at her house with so many others! Fun fact: Brother Ram used to be a missionary here! So he actually stayed in the same apartment that we do now and also came to the dinner! After we ate, we were able to go to the beach with the Valdez and Ruiz family. They planned on sleeping there in tents so I volunteered as tribute to set up the tent! I loved every second of setting the tent up and miss going camping! They had a bonfire and we ate and talked about Christmas once again! ###### SUNDAY! CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas again to all of you! I hope you all had a great day and were able to spend it around those you love. On Christmas morning Elder Scott and I moved around the things inside our open area of the apartment and put our magnificant Christmas tree center stage as well as all of the gifts that Santa had brought through the night! We had a blast opening up presents! Then we went to church! Church was so good! And every one there was in such a good mood. Again I can not describe how amazing it has been to see the smiles that everyone has been wearing the last couple weeks. We all were able to learn from one another and give thanks to our Father in Heaven to remember the true meaning of Christmas and all that he and His son, Jesus Christ have done, and continue to do for us. After we got done with Church, we opened up the rest of the presents at the house. Thank you everyone for the emails, letters and gifts! I love you all! During the day we were invited to many of the members houses to celebrate with them. How did we celebrate? By eating so much food, i now need to workout extra hard in the morning these next couple months! I truly loved celebrating Christmas here and am so thankful for the life I have.I am also so thankful for the time that I have being a missionary to study about Christ and the miracles he worked for us to be able to return to him and our Father again. I love you all and hope you all have a great Holiday season! Up next: New Years!
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Elder Pitt
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