What
a beautiful week it's been and what a great blessing it was to hear all
of your lovely voices. Just from the pictures I can tell that there was
a pretty good haul at the Blotter home! I have no idea why Santa gave
Jed anything with 2 wheels and a motor, but it looks like it will be a
lot of fun. Christmas week was great! We had the chance to do some
finding in a time that people had (relatively) softer hearts and more
time to listen, and we had the chance to work with all of our awesome
investigators here in Vernon. It's weird that you only get 2 Christmases
as a missionary!
The
work in Vernon is going extremely well. We've been realizing how
blessed we have been after we've looked at our area boundaries. It's a
really blessed place to be. Our area is actually a pretty tiny thing in
the world right now (We found out that Vernon has 35,000 people, 70,000
if you include outlying areas, of the which we have none in our area
except a little town called Oyama, and there really isn't anything in
Oyama) and there are currently 4 sets of missionaries in Vernon. We live
more up in the foothills of the little valley we live in, and when you
look out the window of our apartment, absolutely none of the buildings
in view are in our area, it's just the stuff kind of tucked away in a
corner. But, we have a lot of people to teach, and a lot of people just
so close to baptism.
Yesterday,
for example, we were pretty much living with the Kruger family. Not
really, actually, but we've been working with them for a few weeks now,
and they are just doing so great. Sister Kruger was excommunicated when
she was younger, and Brother Kruger isn't a member. They have 3 kids,
and they're all awesome little goobers. Anyways, they've been working on
quitting smoking, and they committed to quit smoking on January 1st,
but Sister Kruger decided that their quit date was going to be yesterday
instead, and so we dropped by a few times to share scriptures and
interrupt almost-smoking breaks. The Kruger family is great. Over the
course of us being there, either one of their kids will have a
diaper/pull-up failure on the furniture next to us, or their crazy dog
will jump on us and turn us into dog fur carpets or something along
those lines, but they're pretty much our favorite family to go and
visit.
And the
rest of our teaching pool are doing well, too! Toni is still out of town
for the Christmas season. She's down in Victoria. But she's going to be
baptized. Sooonnnn. April is doing well, but was also out of town. We
did see some Christmas miracles though! Everybody's favorite thing to
say on the day after Christmas was that they were in the middle of
eating dinner, regardless of what time it was. So we started asking if
we could come in and eat with them. And you know what? We had some
takers. We ended up having some pretty cool lessons and finding some
neat people to teach. Also, we got our fair share of turkey. 2 birds
with one stone.
Okay...
Mother... here is an Elder Fitzner stories. I asked him how he would
describe himself in one sentence and he said "beachwalker, songwriter,
poet". In Weekly Planning this week, I opened a 100g bag of chocolate
covered almonds and put them on our desks. Elder Fitzner proceed to dump
the entire thing in his mouth. And... they couldn't fit in his mouth.
But he still tried. They apparently lodged in his throat and he started
to choke, and I am laughing and don't know what's going on. He stands
up, walks to the middle of the room, and pukes. Ha ha... But seriously,
he's a good missionary and we've seen a lot of miracles.
Well, the
church is true! The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real. Being a
missionary is more on the front lines and we get to see it's influence
help people change every day. There's no better way to spend your time
than as a missionary. It's amazing. Thanks so much for all of your
support! Talk to you next week!
Elder Blotter
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