Christmas...
Well Christmas round-2 in the mission
is over. What a surreal experience. Christmas was good though. After talking to
the famalamily we had an awesome dinner with the De La Cruz family. We still
have piles of meat left to eat from that meal. It was bad week for missionary
work though. No one wanted to receive the missionaries during the holidays. We
spent most of the time calling people and having them not pick up the phone.
I've been sick the last few days and slept all of the 26th in a failed attempt
to get better, so now I'm just dealing with it. Also we're pretty much out of
kilometers for the month so we can't really go anywhere unless it's absolutely
necessary.
That all being said I'm still doing
well. Yesterday we had a really great lesson with a fellow named Ed. He was a
pass-off from the Sisters. We suspected that
he would lose interest the moment the Sisters weren't the ones coming to his
house, but our suspicions were unfounded. He's really cool and really searching
for something to help him in his life. He wants to "break the stereotype
about black men!" I was tempted to tell him that being a Mormon is very
non-stereotypical for a "former thug," as he puts it, but I didn't.
We're really happy about him and have high hopes to see him really progress
going forward.
In other news, nothing else new has
happened since our lovely conversation on Thursday. I went on Splits with Elder
Noel on Saturday and we spent the whole time talking about how neither of us
knows what we're going to do with our lives (he's six weeks younger than me in
the mission). Then we passed by a former who pulled us into an argument about
how we worship Joseph Smith because we "talk about him too much after he's
dead." It was weird.
That's about it this week. Thanks for
sending the camera! I guess I'm lucky T-man cares about the quality of his
camera. Also I'll probably get those two packages at the same time. No one is
going to Montreal until the middle of January, and that's only if someone gets
transferred (it's possible no one moves).
Sorry I don't have any pictures to
send you this week. I couldn't even send them to you. I love you all though! As
they say here in Quebec: Lâche pas la patate!
Elder Hardy
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