Even though we did not get any snow, we did have a white Christmas! Kylee Massingill was baptized a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last Thursday and was confirmed and received the gift of the Holy Ghost on Christmas Day! What better gift could she had given the Savior! She will be so blessed! And she loves it already.
We also had Christmas morning presents just like everyone else. And found my hat in one of those. The Casados family, about 3 weeks prior, held my hat hostage for leaving it at their house and thought it would be funny to give it back for Christmas. They make me laugh 😂. There are a lot of great people here in Poway. We were definitely well taken care of.
One of my favorite things that happened for Christmas was going about 15 mile north to some missionaries in Ramona. Some packages for Christmas came in the day before and we had the privilege of driving up at 6 am in the morning to play the role of Santa and give them some last minute Christmas presents. They were all super tired still but over joyed to see the gifts from loved ones back home. It was sweet!
I will top off this email by talking about Josh and Sara. They are both awesome people and they love the Gospel and everything the church has to offer, they believe it is true and everything. But....... they are scared about getting married. We think it is a financial thing, something about insurance and dependents. It is a mess but the point is they cannot receive all of the blessings that God, our Heavenly Father has to offer them until they follow all of his commandments, including keeping The Law of Chastity, including getting married if you are living together. Hopefully we can help them overcome that and let God's blessings flow.
😊
~ Elder Joshua Alger
P. S. The four Missionaries in this picture are Elder Wilson, me, Elder Mahoney and Elder Chen. I trained (Elder Wilson and Elder Mahoney, my mission children), and Elder Chen is Elder Mahoney's trainee.
We also had Christmas morning presents just like everyone else. And found my hat in one of those. The Casados family, about 3 weeks prior, held my hat hostage for leaving it at their house and thought it would be funny to give it back for Christmas. They make me laugh 😂. There are a lot of great people here in Poway. We were definitely well taken care of.
One of my favorite things that happened for Christmas was going about 15 mile north to some missionaries in Ramona. Some packages for Christmas came in the day before and we had the privilege of driving up at 6 am in the morning to play the role of Santa and give them some last minute Christmas presents. They were all super tired still but over joyed to see the gifts from loved ones back home. It was sweet!
I will top off this email by talking about Josh and Sara. They are both awesome people and they love the Gospel and everything the church has to offer, they believe it is true and everything. But....... they are scared about getting married. We think it is a financial thing, something about insurance and dependents. It is a mess but the point is they cannot receive all of the blessings that God, our Heavenly Father has to offer them until they follow all of his commandments, including keeping The Law of Chastity, including getting married if you are living together. Hopefully we can help them overcome that and let God's blessings flow.
😊
~ Elder Joshua Alger
P. S. The four Missionaries in this picture are Elder Wilson, me, Elder Mahoney and Elder Chen. I trained (Elder Wilson and Elder Mahoney, my mission children), and Elder Chen is Elder Mahoney's trainee.
I have my hat back!
Out caroling
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