Reynolds, MaKenna

 Well, Merry Christmas! I'm going to keep this one short because well, I've been sick the last 5 days. Nasty cold.  Holiday Greeting with a cold! So, yeah. Had this since last wednesday. Thought I'd have time to recover since they moved Zone Conferencs to Saturday instead of Thursday, but nope! I'm sick still. And as a result we have been under house-arrest except for on saturday!  Zone Conference!  So, they did move it back because of the weather. It was raining here for a couple of days last week and they wanted to move it because of that. I was relieved because I thougbt it would give me a day to kick this sickness in the face and make it there perfectly healthy on Saturday. Nope!  I did not sing in our musical number because I would have ruined it but I passed the mic around and wveryone else still did good so that's fine. I didnt have a big part so I'm lucky there. Said hi to everyone and watched Sister Mansfield beat up a piñata.  The Baptism of Jesus...

So, I'm back once again. And it's less than a week until Christmas!!!! 5 days to be exact.  Stake Musical Devotional! So, on Sunday for Christmas the Stake Choir put on a show. And Sister Mansfield was in it so we were able to go! Well, all of the other missionaries invited friends too so I think the whole zone plus half of the stake was there. It was so cool! The music was so wonderful and the messages in between were so powerful. The Spirit was so strong!  District Christmas Song! So for Zone Conference on Thursday, they are having the first half of the mission get together and all of the Districts are doing a musical number and bearing testimonies. It'll be so good. We are singing one of Sister Mansfield's original songs for it. It's about Mary and the sheperds and their experience with baby Jesus so it'll be good! We started practicing on Sunday evening while the missionaries were there after the music devotional and during Jesus's interview. Speaking of...

Christmas is in 11 days so it's basically here! Exciting! I hope you all remember in the midst if all your parties and such that our Savior is the reason we can have those things. He's the reason for this season and his suffering on the cross is the reason we celebrate his birth in the first place. Remember these things and I promise the feeling of Gratitude will make this Holiday Season even greater.  Transfer news! So, I've got a bit of a story here for all of you. On Saturday there was a baptism in our district we were going to, and President Rodriguez messaged us saying he wanted to meet with us that morning. An hour before the baptism. It was a vague text message so it scared both me and Sister Mansfield.  I've been struggling a bit this last transfer because of the holidays, and he wanted to know how he could help me. And, well, he said something may need to change. We took that as one of us will be transfered but Nope! We're both staying here. We thought for ...

Anyone else got a countdown till Christmas going on? 19 days!!! Isn't that amazing?! I'm looking forward to it.  It's been a while hasn't it? It's been 10 days since our last Preparation Day and let's just say that we are more than ready for it. It's been a long week and a half. I've got a bit to say today, so I better get started. Zone Conference! We had two members of the 70 come to our mission on a tour. Elder and Sister Mckay, and Elder and Sister Dushku. Usually Zone Conference is spread out over the zones throughout the transfers, but we had multiple zones together in three pieces; north, middle and south. All three were done in a period of three days, and all who weren't in person were attending over Zoom. Yeah, it was a big event. It was so cool too! I got to shake their hands and Elder and Sister Mckay sat at our table for lunch! How exciting was that?! Ward Christmas Party! Our Ward Christmas Party was awesome! We had a bunch of friends com...