CHRISTMAS AS A MISSIONARY

December 26, 2022

What is up y'all!?! It's a day after Christmas!! This week went well, but at the same time, it sucked because we couldn't do as much missionary work as we would like because everyone was preparing for the hot 4th of July-like Christmas, but it's all good!!

This week we had divisions, which means that I went with another companion for a day and helped work in another area called Batan. I actually have divisions this coming week too, so we shall see where I go. But, anyway, back to Batan. We started in this really, really nice area and contacted around there, but we didn't have much success because everyone is rich and doesn't see any need for our message. Hey, what can you do? So we went to lunch in that same area with a person who says they 1. Know The Book of Mormon is true, and 2. Knows our church to be true, but she won't get baptized. To be honest, I don't know why, but she spoke English, soo that was nice. While we were eating, lunch her daughter came in with her family and this guy. Turns out this dude doesn't believe in anything. Like nothing. I thought that that was pretty sad because we asked him, "Where do you think you're going?" and he said, "Life ends after this, so i don't know." I felt sad for him. After lunch, we contacted the rest of the day. At the end of the night, we went up on the roof and took photos, haha. I stayed in Batan for the next day because we were gonna sing in our city center that day, so we'd just switch back to our normal companions then.

We had zone conference on Friday and messed around there. At the end, my actual companion, Elder Curtis, and I got stranded at a church building like 30 minutes from ours because there was no taxi. We waited for like 5 hours with sister missionaries, and then finally, we got a taxi, so yay!! After that, the really only big thing left was Christmas, and people went whack on Christmas. It's just like the 4th of July in the USA, but with Christmas trees, haha. How weird. Oh, well. I have to go, but I love you all and send you big hugs!!

Love you lots,

Elder Mergenthaler

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