Allison Jo Glanzer: Light the World!

It finally snowed here! Honestly, as missionary I despise all weather unless it is good weather. It was yesterday when snowed. There is an elder from Texas who called it a blizzard..... BAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA. I have seen worse snow in Tonasket, and that isn't even a blizzard. Also, the Spanish elders, the one that is driving companion is from Florida. We don't think he has driven in the snow before. His companion is from Cananda, we don't know if he is able to drive here, but he isn't the assigned driver so he gets to sit back and try not to die! There isn't that much snow.

Yesterday, Sunday, was the Christmas devotional, super good and highly recommend it. The cool part was what happened afterward. Cool for us! It was played at the stake center in Elko and there where like five sets of missionaries there. The STLs call us over to sit in font of them because there is a guy behind them who is a less active member who said he is in one of our wards! We talked to him afterwards. He literally just got moved into our ward because of the boundary changes! He had been inactive for 30 years and his daughter married a less active return missionary and they are all interested in coming back! So cool!

I also am sick. Wednesday I got face-wash up my nose, that was gross, but it weakened me enough for the illness to attack and take hold. I has been a fun couple of days with that. Six hours of fast Sunday church was a blast. Sister Bates is a member in 2nd ward, and has a son recently on a mission in Georgia Atlanta North mission, she is the best! She has come out with us a few times, and she supplied me with vitamin C and this Zicam stuff! And she is a great person to take out to lessons!

Oh hey! So here they have late night sacrament meeting for those who work at the mines and such so they can still renew their baptismal covenants! We got to go to it with our investigator, Will! It was pretty small, but very good. What a great thing they have for these people here.

So I will blame the illness, but I don't remember much of what happened this week.

OH! Tiffani!

So we have a couple people that we are teaching because of Welfare, so we had a return appt with one that we set up in person with her. She told us to text her that day before hand. She didn't reply. We get there and we are parked outside waiting for a member to join us. These two pit bulls come out, that we have never seen before (we have been to her house twice before) and one just hops over the fence and sniffs and marks territory. We are just shocked. Then a guy comes out and gets in his car, we rush over to let him know the dog is loose and he says they aren't his, but the people know. Our member gets there, then another guy comes out we tell him where the dog went. He gets in the car with the other guy and they drive off. We go to the door, some lady answers door. Tiffani isn't there, and the lady leaves and in these HIGH heels, and three bags of stuff, and the other pit bull on a leash. We three are super confused. Every time we go to Tiffani's house there is always different people. So, moral of the story, we need to have better coordination with our Bishop on what they want us to exactly do with Welfare referrals. It was pretty great.

Thursday is weekly planning day, where we prep for all the lessons we will teach and set up and focus on the people we are teaching and how to best help them as they are learning about the gospel and how to keep them involve din the ward. We also had four lessons. We texted to remind all but one. Those three all fell through. So we thought, if we don't contact the last one, it won’t cancel! We get there with the YW president for the lesson........ it cancelled. We were talking with Sister Strong, and she had said she talked earlier that day with the mom, and said she was going to be coming over with us that night. I thought it was a pretty funny situation!

A few of the less active sisters had babies and we have met a few of the new ones that were effected by the boundary change!

I hope everyone is doing well and accepting the #LightTheWorld Challenge again this year! Seriously, the First Presidency approved it again this year. That is so cool! That means it is even more important for us to participate!

Sister Cluff and I were able to do day one without realizing it in the moment. A member gave us two things of strawberries. We saw the 1st ward elders and gave them one! Simple and easy. The service ideas are so neat, tomorrow is talk to your parents, but I get to do that one today! I honestly would love to hear how you all are Lighting The World!

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We have Zone Activity today! Pretty exciting! Tell you about it next week!

This week there was something called Créche, which is a display of a ton of different nativities, our church puts it on, but different faiths come too. I'll include some pictures of my favs.

Sister Glanzer