Jan 5 Happy New Year 2016!

Hello and Happy New Year's everybody! This was a great week for us,

we were able to see our mission president and have interviews, which

was cool. No zone conference this time around, that won't be for

another 6 weeks probably. But it was really great to see him and we

had a great district meeting with him there. Me and Elder Van Den

Herik were actually given charge of the lesson while he was there,

which was a bit nerve wracking with president and sister egbert there.

But the lesson actually ended up being great and we got a lot of

compliments. In fact at one point Sister Egbert was so glad with

something I said she stood up and gave me a high five hahaha it was

pretty funny. Anyways since they could only meet with us on Monday we

pushed our Pday to today, and so far it's been great. We went and

played basketball at the church and invited some members to play with

us. One of them lost both the soles to his shoes while he was playing

hahah he was balling a little too hard apparently. I also had a good

New Year's, we received instructions to not stay up until 12 or go

outside since it can be crazy but it was impossible to sleep through

the fireworks. Apparently they had a roll of firecrackers over a

kilometer long! Hahah they take New Year's very seriously around here.

Anyways, I hope you all had a great holiday season and wish you all a

successful 2016!

Elder Carpenter