Dear Family and friends,
Merry Christmas!!!!
Thank you all who sent me gifts!? Ill have to repay you with
a letter and a solid I LOVE YOU because i'm so broke as a missionary haha. So
let me tell you about my week!
First off this was my last couple days in daphne! I was
soooo sad to leave! All of the coolest members were there. So I basically just
packed and packed and packed. We had District meeting on Tuesday and we had a
white elephant gift sharing and that was funny. We are all broke so we just
brought stuff from our apartments and it was so funny. After that we stopped by
a members home he gave me a bunch of ties as a going away present. We then
drove from fairhope to spanish fort to sign Doug and Linda's Shed. They have
all the missionaries who serve in daphne sign the shed with paint. After that
we went to Davids catfish to eat. They said I couldn't leave without trying
catfish. Which was pretty good. After that we went to the Quinnelly's
home and oh my I was so dang sad to leave them. We talked with them for a while
and took pictures and talked for a while. Seriously one of my hardest goodbyes
was saying goodbye to that family. They were honestly my second family! haha
Cant wait to come back and visit them. So after that heart breaking goodbye I
went back home to finish packing. Then we drove over to the mills and had
dinner with them. We took some pictures and said goodbye. We also drove by
these houses and they had seriously over 50ft blow up santas and minions haha
it was crazy. We finally got home and went to bed. Got up early the next
morning aka Wednesday and loaded the truck up with all my stuff. I didn't
realize but I have so much stuff! haha Crazy what you can collect over a years
time. haha But we drove to Pensacola and did my last Transfer set up as a Zone
Leader. We sat there waiting for the transfer van to come, they were supposed
to come at 12:30 but didn't get there until about 2pm. So while we were waiting
we drove over to this chell gas station and behind it is this street taco
place where we just got some super good Mexican food. Once the Transfer van got
here we loaded it all up and were on our way to crestview transfer spots. We
unloaded and I met my new companion Elder Johnson. He has been out for 2
transfers. So he is still pretty new but he is awesome! Its been so cool so
far, I've learned a lot of different attributes that I can work on. He is an
awesome Elder, he is from Utah of course. Fort Walton is pretty good so far.
We had our half mission conference on Friday and it was
super fun. I know some missionaries where we were having it and I asked the
assistants if we can drive and stay the night with them and they said it sounds
good. So we drove to fox run and stayed the night Thursday night with
like 10-12 missionaries. It was a lot of fun. Next day was half mission
conference and we just had a blast. We played minute to win it games and we had
some amazing missionaries show all their talents with singing, playing the
piano, and some cool dancing haha. That all started at like 10 am and got done
at like 4pm and we didn't leave until about 5 pm. We got home about 6:45 and
then went to stubys. Stubys is a super good place to eat at which a member
kinda owns and they let the missionaries eat there for free. Which is SUPER
NICE! After the sisters came over to drop off all our packages we got for
Christmas and then we gave one of the sisters a blessing. Which was pretty
neat. After all that we just studied.
I was talking with another Elder about our last areas we
served in and we both were like I feel like a piece of me is still in my
last area haha. We both just started laughing super hard because we were like
yo im home sick from my last ward hahha. Its so awesome to get to know members
and the area but its hard leaving an awesome area haha. But Fort Walton is
pretty sick so far!
So Fort Walton is pretty cool. We hung out with the Birds
who is a family here and they are super cool. So we spent Christmas with them
and it was awesome skyping home. I miss my family so much! Im so thankful for
all the gifts I received! It was truly an amazing christmas! We got to
watch movies and we went caroling which was really fun.
I hope you all had a great and amazing Christmas!
Love Elder Graham
--
Elder Graham
No comments:
Post a Comment