McKay 14th Birthday Photo Shoot

 

Palmer Mission January 9-15 2024

Whats up yall! Hope yall doing great this summer or winter depending where you are in the world. I have not had anytime the last three weeks to actually have time to respond to people and write emails and today is no exception but Ill make the time today ajaja but FELICES FIESTAS! Its the best time of the year to be a missionary remembering Christ and his birth but if yall really think about it....the only thing that changes for us is that there are lights and the people treat us a bit nicer, but us as missionaries we think about Christ from January to December all year round and thats why Im grateful to be a missionary, Christmas is every day for me...Christ was born for me and for everyone and I have the opportunity to talk about that every second of every day. But lets get into the interesting events of these weeks

Ok so I had planned to write an email two weeks ago...thats what this is^ but Ive been soooo low on time and today isnt any different but I promise, next week Ill have so much time. But here are some spark notes

-Eduardo is a dude we put on date to get married to his girlfriend whos a member and baptized (we also put his daughter on date!) I miss him and his fam so much

-I GOT TRANSFERRED TO FORMOSA, if yall remember I was here a year ago but in the main city. now im in the boonies where it was 122 yesterday and we have to open the branch that has 2 active members and this area was closed 3 months ago due to the mental health of the missionaries so thanks AP Johnson baaa jk Im super excited to work here and give my all to change this area around. Theres also a colony of Inidians so les go

-Training Elder Juarez from Bolivia and hes so awesome!

-RIP Posadas...loved my last area and what I learned and the people I met. #ETgang

-also made a song so hype

Love yall! Christ lives! He loves you! This is his church!

Elder Nelson

Martin Luther King Day of Service

The Petersons invited us to participate with them in the MLK Day of Service at Dunwood Nature Preserve. Our first task was to take care of the pumpkins that people had dropped off from Halloween. 

We broke them up for them to use in some of their flower beds.

We listened to "Smashing Pumpkins," while we worked.

This was the best job for these boys. Getting to destroy something :) 

Our next job was the mulch a path. It was about a half mile long and super steep. It was so hard!

Luckily we are all pretty tenacious and also luckily we had people helping us. It took a few hours, but we finished it and felt really cool. 
                      

We were pretty proud of this path!