Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
It's
weird that the last time I was writing this letter home, I was with
Elder McWhorter in El Ferrol. Good times... Well, first of all, I hope
everyone is enjoying the holidays and making lots of memories! Christmas
this year was pretty great! But I'll talk about that in a little.
On
Monday, we had a normal day since our P Day
was on Christmas and we had a lesson with Javier and Lourdes that went
really well! We set a baptismal date for the both of them for the 24th
of January. They seem to have a lot of desires to get to know people in
the branch here in Oviedo and come to church so hopefully we can get
them ready for the 24th! After we had a good lesson with Prosper on
missionary work and the priesthood. It went well!
Every
year in Madrid on the week of Christmas, the zones in Madrid have a
huge Christmas devotional and all of the missionaries down there get
together to celebrate Christmas. For the second time in a row, I missed
it!! This year, David Archuleta came as well and sang a few songs. It
sounds like it was really fun but we had a great time up here in Oviedo!
Elder Ward planned a great devotional for us and I learned alot about
the importance of Christmas this year. It's kind of amazing how much I
can learn about simple things like Christmas and missionary work even
after having done it for so long.
On
Wednesday, the noche buena as they call it here, The Hunt's invited us
over to their house for dinner! The other missionaries came and some YSA
members and it was great! I was in charge of the dessert and let's just
say I whipped out some egg nog shakes which turned out suuper good!! I
was suprised because I had to make them from scratch and I've never made
egg nog from scratch before but it was really good and pretty easy too.
It was a memorable night and Elder Ward dressed up as Santa Clause
which made it even better.
Christmas
was good and tranquilo. We had breakfast at the Hunt's and then I
dominated everyone in Uno by winning 4 games out of the 6 that we
played. I was on fire haha. Skyping with the family was great too! It
was really
good to see my family and I miss them a lot. In the afternoon we hit
the streets and received a couple of Christmas references which was
bomb. I've heard that in some missions they don't let the missionaries
go out to proselyte on Christmas but we go hard here in Spain.
The
rest of the week was great. The highlight was when we went to sing at
an elderly peoples home (that sounds really weirdly phrased sorry its
called a residencia here...). We sang some carols and some hymns and it
was great! I also played the lead role in a skit about a boy who gives
his winter coat to a poor kid. And I also played the role as one of the
Whos in Whoville. Elder Ward of course took the role as the Grinch. It
was unforgetable haha. Sunday was great too. I gave the lesson in the
Elders Quorum on Christmas and it went really well.
I especially wanted to share with all of you a
verse from the Old Testament that I found. Micah 5:2 "
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me
that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
have been from of old, from everlasting." And a snip from verse 5: "
And this
man shall
be the peace" I know that Jesus is our Savior. What better time do we
have to think about him than now? As this Christmas season ends, I hope
that we all can remember our Savior a little more during this coming
year. I know that He lives and that He loves us. He was born in the
humble city of Bethlehem, but He truly is a ruler in Israel and the Son
of God. He is the way, the
truth and the life!
I love you all!
Elder Franklyn
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