Christmas Caroling in August

August 17, 2020

What's up everyone! I hope you all had a great week! Our week was pretty interesting because we got really creative on how we approached finding new people to teach.

A missionary in our mission suggested "singing finding", which is where you just call people and sing to them, and hopefully they feel the spirit enough to want to talk again sometime! We had our doubts, but we tried it because Elder Chavez is pretty good at singing. Surprisingly, we were able to find 7 new people by just singing to them! It worked really well! We decided to sing Christmas songs, like "Silent Night", and "The First Noel" just to spice it up a bit. We were shockingly surprised at how receptive people were! I guess online Christmas caroling in the middle of summer is an effective finding technique haha!

For those of you who have seen the movie 17 Miracles, the actor who played Levi Savage is the uncle of one of the missionaries here, and he joined us in a Zoom call to share about his experience filming that movie! It was super cool! He has been in a bunch of other movies too, including The Cokeville Miracle, which is one of my favorites.

Today is the first day that we get to go outside!! We have been going crazy inside but we have planned TONS of in person lessons, Book of Mormon deliveries, and exchanges this week so that we can stop feeling like couch potatoes. Super excited and SO GRATEFUL for fresh air and sunlight! Even if the "fresh" air is not so fresh out here in the 'ole Bronx.

Update on Nazareth: We are getting a little nervous because his baptismal date is in 1 week but he got sick and we haven't been able to have a lesson with him! Pray for him! Fast for him! Do all the things! He is so close! Satan works hard but the MISSIONARIES WORK HARDER! I feel like I am working against time right now because I have 2 weeks left in the Bronx and I really want to be here for Nazareth's baptism.

Since we have been inside literally all week, I don't have many pictures to share, sorry. Have a great week!!

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