Elders Anderson and Gomez (the Facebook Hype Specialists in their district) made this awesome video last week. (the sound is a bit hard to hear for the first little bit, but seriously, make the time to watch this 1 minute clip, you will laugh so hard!!!)
Facebook Hype Specialists in Grand Junction West
12/21/2020
Today was the day that Saturn and Jupiter aligned to form the star of Bethlehem! It was really cool to see, we had a member who brought his telescope to the church, so we got to see it without even having to leave the comfort of the building we locked ourselves in for Pday. Other than that, I’m pretty sure that the only notable thing that happened today was that I bought three cartons of eggnog today. Our members took really good care of us last week, we were lucky that we didn’t have to spend any money on groceries, so that meant that we got to use our budgets today for mischief, as in, three cartons of eggnog. I also spent $17 at Hobby Lobby for a small package of pens. My wallet cries every time I enter that store.
12/22/2020
Today was really busy, we’re just now finishing up at 10:20 and I’m going to bed in five minutes, so this is going to be short. We spent all day filming and it turned out amazing, I need to find a way to share the video with all of you.
Super Summary:
I’ve been so busy for the last few days that I neglected to write in my journal for like, three nights straight, so I decided I would do a summary recount of the events that have transpired all in one rather than trying to separate them out in my head. Our Facebook hype videos turned out amazing. In two days we produced two videos, made more impressive because we had to redo them after we got more COVID restrictions. The videos turned out great, and the effects were amazing. We have a shared calendar that we all fill out together so that we can coordinate our Facebook efforts, and everyone hates filling it out. That calendar was the subject we talked about in our “Christmas Special” and after our video people actually started filling it out, we played an incredible role in unifying our Zone! Because of all the excitement/stress from those videos, I didn’t think about Christmas at all until it came. Christmas day (yesterday) was a lot of fun. I spent a while making a Christmas gift for my old district with Collins, and then we spent the rest of our day driving around to various devotionals and Zone activities. We had a District service project, and it was really fun, but very cold. We frosted cookies in the freezing temperatures. They didn’t end up looking great… frosting doesn’t spread very well when it’s frozen, but it was good enough. I got to call my family yesterday, and it ended up being a great Christmas.
12/26/2020
Today was great! We went to Chick Fil A again, this time courtesy of Elder Gomez’s family, and they messed up my order again. If we ever go again I’m seriously going to ask them to let me take my own order. The most significant thing that happened today was my sister’s baptism. Katie turned eight this last week, and entered the waters of baptism today. The Spirit was so strong in that meeting, and it was especially cool because I didn’t think I was going to get to see it. We really have been blessed with some incredible technology, the ability we have to communicate across the world is an amazing blessing.
12/27/2020
Today was a great Sunday! We had our Christmas services today since the last time we met was three weeks before Christmas. People voted that it made more sense to do it today than three weeks ago, and I was more than happy to keep Christmas going for another week. The special musical numbers that we heard were AMAZING! We also had the best Christmas gift from the ward: My companion and I got to bless the Sacrament today. We had a few lessons, and a great Sunday devotional, it made for a very good end to such a wonderful week.
Today for a spiritual thought I wanted to share a verse from Isaiah:
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
This verse is so powerful year-round, but especially at Christmas time because of these powerful natures about the babe that was born in a manger 2000 years ago. Christ was born, he took upon us our weaknesses, pains, and sins. Because he overcame all He is Wonderful, our Counsellor, our might God, the Father of salvation and exaltation, our Prince who brings us peace, and I love Him.
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