Hello from the Colorado, Colorado Springs Mission
Hey everyone! This
last week was a lot of saying goodbye, and saying hello to new missionaries. The Thanksgiving transfer was complete and now
we are moving on to Christmas. We had to
say goodbye to Sister Mangisi and Elder Walton this week. Both were going home and we are really going
to miss them! I don't really like seeing
so many missionaries come and go so often but it's something I'm going to have to
adjust to. So we have 2 missionaries
that just joined our district. Sister
Harrop (who leaves in 2 transfers), and Elder Buxton (Who is straight out of
the MTC). I'm no longer the newest
missionary in the district! They are
both fantastic missionaries! Elder
Buxton has so much fire and is excited to do any type of missionary work. So we are a pretty good group! We've done quite a bit of work this week with
members in the ward. We normally try to
set up appointments with them to teach mock lessons and then ask them to invite
non-members to the following appointment. It can be pretty effective. We got to do that most nights this week which
helps keep us busy. My companion Elder
Mogle ordered a Ukulele this week and wants me to teach him how to play which
sounds pretty fun. This week we were
supposed to have Zone Training on Friday but because I had a doctors
appointment, they cancelled the entire meeting for the zone hahaha. So 20 missionaries had to wait another week
for a meeting because of me.
I am really excited for Christmas in 2 weeks! That's coming up so soon! I will get to call
you guys and talk to you and I'm stoked about that! We have Christmas at a members home in our
ward and they're really cool and fun so I know we are going to have a good
time! We went to Manitou yesterday and
the whole town is decorated for Christmas. It was really cool to see and we had so much
fun there. Last night we had dinner at a
home where they have pet snakes! I got to
hold a 6 ft boa constrictor which was way awesome!
Kaley is not the only snake lover
Well I've got to go. We've got a lot of things planned this week. Grandma and Grandpa I wanted to thank you for
the Thanksgiving card you sent! I love
hearing from you two! And I got my
Christmas package with the tree and ornaments. Our apartment is going to look really festive.
I can tell it's going to be great. Let
me know if I can do anything for you guys!
You're awesome and I love hearing from you every week. Take care of yourselves and I will talk to you
soon!
God is Great!
Elder Gillingwater
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