December
29, 2014
My First Christmas in Virginia
Hi family and
friends!
Hope
everyone had a Merry Christmas!!
Monday night, we did a service project with the McCoy
family in the branch. We made cookies and then sang carols and delivered
cookies to members of our branch.
Tuesday, we contacted a bunch of people. In the evening, the McCoy's took us out to dinner
at Tucano's. Tucano's is a Brazilian
restaurant that serves lots of different kinds of meat, and mmmm it was so
good.
Wednesday was Christmas Eve. I woke up feeling a little
sick and I could feel that it was going hit me hard. We had Christmas Eve off.
We went to the home of Ramon and Belkis, our investigators, for dinner where we
had tamales, horchata, roasted turkey and dessert. They completely stuffed us. Afterwards
we were invited to another ward member’s home and she served us steak, potatoes
and more tamales. Oh my goodness, I was so full that I thought I was going to
explode.
We woke up Christmas day and called in on the
phone to a mission wide conference where each of the Assistants to the President
gave a message about Christmas, and then President and Sister Baker each shared
a message about Christmas as well. After our phone conference, Elder
Morgan and I opened our presents, and then we went over to the Richies' house
for lunch. Of course the highlight of my day was when I was able to skype with my
family! I miss them a ton and wish I could have spent Christmas with
them! I got a blessing from my companion and our stake president, President
Hamilton to help me get over my illness. After the blessing President Hamilton
told me that while he was giving the blessing, he "felt the spirit super
strong.” Then he said, “You are going to
do some amazing things on your mission." I thought that his comments were cool
and I've been thinking a lot about that experience lately.
As a result of my illness, I slept about 40 total hours over Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. Thankfully I woke up today feeling
a lot better!
Well I hope everyone has a great week!
Love, Elder Cannon
