MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I love Christmas! It is my favorite time of the whole year... A little different in Russia though because they don't celebrate Christmas when we do in America. They Celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. And they don't even give each other that many presents for Christmas. Instead they give each other presents for New Years... So it's all sorts of confusing, but it means that we get to celebrate even more because we will celebrate American Christmas on Sunday and CALL HOME! and open our Chirstmas presents and stuff, then the next Sunday we will celebrate New Years, and then the next Saturday we get to celebrate Christmas again. I think this is what you would call a win win win situation. Because then I just get to have 2 Christmases and I love that day! So I'm really excited. It's also fun because we have been doing a few Christmas lessons with people and it's just so much fun to talk about Christ, because really without him, we wouldn't even have anything to be joyful about. So... JOY TO THE WORLD THE LORD HAS COME!!!!
So, this week was so much fun and it went by so fast! I want to tell you about a cool thing that happened. So once a week we have district meeting, and it takes us about an hour and a half to get to our meeting and then two hours to have our meeting, so it really cuts down on the amount of time that we have to work on those days, so in the morning I prayed that we would have the opprotunity to teach some one while we were traveling to our meeting, and we did! Sister LeBaron sometimes gets car sick when we ride for so long on those bumpy marshrutkas, so we sat in the very front and as we were going this man that was standing next to us started talking to us and we ended up talking to him about alot of things. He was kind of strange and a little rude and maybe just wanted to pick on us in the beginning, but it ended nicely and he even invited us to come to this meeting with him for this company he just started working for.. probably some king of pyramid thing, but still... it was nice of him. Also that company is called like sunshine products and it is based in provo utah and it was started by mormons and when he found out that that's what religion we are he got even more interested. So we'll see if that goes anywhere.
We put up a Christmas tree this week! We just taped it onto our wall. It's just made out of Christmas lights, but it makes it feel like Christmas time. We also decorated our living room with paper snowflakes and we cut out a nativity scene from an ensign to hang up. So we're ready. This week Sister LeBaron has to get a new visa, so we are just working Tuesday and Wednesday and then leaving on Thursday. And then when she gets back on Saturday we have a Christmas eve party with all the missionaries, and then on Christmas day we will have church, just like normal since it's not even a holliday here, and then at night we will get to call home, so those are our plans. I'm pretty darn tootin' excited if I do say so myself. So that's all. I hope that you all have a very merry Christmas time.
Love,
Sister Leavitt
So, this week was so much fun and it went by so fast! I want to tell you about a cool thing that happened. So once a week we have district meeting, and it takes us about an hour and a half to get to our meeting and then two hours to have our meeting, so it really cuts down on the amount of time that we have to work on those days, so in the morning I prayed that we would have the opprotunity to teach some one while we were traveling to our meeting, and we did! Sister LeBaron sometimes gets car sick when we ride for so long on those bumpy marshrutkas, so we sat in the very front and as we were going this man that was standing next to us started talking to us and we ended up talking to him about alot of things. He was kind of strange and a little rude and maybe just wanted to pick on us in the beginning, but it ended nicely and he even invited us to come to this meeting with him for this company he just started working for.. probably some king of pyramid thing, but still... it was nice of him. Also that company is called like sunshine products and it is based in provo utah and it was started by mormons and when he found out that that's what religion we are he got even more interested. So we'll see if that goes anywhere.
We put up a Christmas tree this week! We just taped it onto our wall. It's just made out of Christmas lights, but it makes it feel like Christmas time. We also decorated our living room with paper snowflakes and we cut out a nativity scene from an ensign to hang up. So we're ready. This week Sister LeBaron has to get a new visa, so we are just working Tuesday and Wednesday and then leaving on Thursday. And then when she gets back on Saturday we have a Christmas eve party with all the missionaries, and then on Christmas day we will have church, just like normal since it's not even a holliday here, and then at night we will get to call home, so those are our plans. I'm pretty darn tootin' excited if I do say so myself. So that's all. I hope that you all have a very merry Christmas time.
Love,
Sister Leavitt
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