They have started to put up Christmas lights, so thats cool. They have replaced all the flowers with those super cool red ones, not sure what they are called (They're Poinsettas Tanner!). My casa has two districts in it and we have decided that we will be doing a Live Nativity Scene. The cast goes:
Elder Mays (250lbs minimum): the baby
Elder Smith (otherwise known as Dad): Joseph
Elder Hall (Yours Truly): Mary
Elder Clark: The angel
Elder Cunningham: donkey
Elder Bailey: the camel
Elder Dickson: Wise man
Elder Mcneely: Wise Man
Elder Salazar: Wise Man
Elder Higgins: Sheppherd
Elder Browning: Narrating the journey
The rest of the cast hasnt been posted but the first night is tonight
This week we fasted for our teacher Hermano Rincon. He and his wife went to the doctors (on Monday) to see if they would be able to have kids. So we all decided to fast for him on Sunday and Monday as well. After class yesterday he was talking to me, Browning, Leavitt and Olson and he said that for some reason while he was going through this trial he could feel the support and love from our whole district. He told us that the doctor said that they have one chance to have a kid--in three months. And they are going to try to make it twins (not just one). The weird thing is that yesterday was his last night before going to work for a bioengineer company, so we decided to all write him a letter (this was before he told all of us this). So I was writing my letter and I had the impression to write, 'I know that you will be an amazing father to at least a couple of kids, and those kids will be some of the strongest members of the Church'. I thought to myself, 'Nope! Not writing that cuz he can't even have kids so that'd be weird and touching on a sensitive subject', so I just kept writing. Then I had the feeling again and ignored it cuz that's weird to write. The third time the words came to my head and just said, 'DO IT'. So I did it and wrote it. Then I to find out that he actually will probably have two kids of his own in the near future. So that was cool.
Another thing that happened this week was me and my companion gave Hermano Rincon a blessing after one of our progessive investigator lessons. We gave him one because he was had a pretty nasty sickness. His eyes were bloodshot, he couldnt stop coughing, his nose was runny, and he just couldn't concentrate on anything. So after the lesson I had the impression to ask if he wanted a blessing from us. My companion then shot me a dirty look. But hey--when you get a prompting you act on it. So anyways he says that he would love a blessing. So we gave him a blessing and after the blessing Hermano Rincon is just sitting there and he tells us if we can see. And he keeps asking it, and I'm like, 'Oh man, this guy's seeing stuff that's kinda weird'. But then he says, 'Look--my nose its not even red anymore'. And then we looked again and his eyes were completely white, he no longer had a sore throat, and he said his head was as clear as can be. He then said that in the middle of the blessing a thought came into his head and said, 'Do you have faith to be healed?' And he said, 'Yes'. And in that moment everything went away. So that was really cool.
Something really fun this week was last night. So we were all down cuz our teacher told us he was leaving out of the blue and cuz the other district was just having a rough day. So I told everyone that at 10pm bring a picture of your family or your mom and a blanket cuz we are gonna have a Sobfest Party. So anyways we had at least 15 guys in there and I started out the meeting by reading the book I Will Love You Forever. We all cried the whole book (especially me) so that was fun. Then I asked two questions: 1. What is your favorite character of your mom, and 2. What is your favorite memory of your mom. So everyone went around the room and answered those two questions. Everyone was crying and it was just really good. We started that at 10 and time flew by. When I looked at the time it was 1130. So we finished with me giving a spiritual thought and then closed it. It was pretty dang fun--all of our faces were splochy from crying so much, and our eyes were as bloodshot as can be. We all woke up this morning with raging headaches--probably from the lack of sleep and the water loss of last night.
That is all for this week love you all
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