Tuesday night we hoped to go over to the mission home to have a lesson with S (who is getting baptized on Saturday!) but he wasn't able to make it last-minute. We still were able to see President and Sister Alexander though, which is always nice.
On Wednesday our zone all met at the stake center and had our district meetings there. Afterward we stayed for a couple hours to help set up for the Nativity Festival, which is a huge event they put on at the church every year with a live nativity, a bunch of international nativity sets, and musical performances. Mostly we just set up chairs. Every padded chair in the whole building had to be moved to the cultural hall. And there were a lot of them. Then we helped set up Christmas trees and string lights. It took a while but it would have taken way longer if all the missionaries hadn't been there to help.
On Thursday we ended up setting up Chriistmas decorations again, this time at the mission home! The Alexanders were going to have some neighbors over for Light the World but with transfers coming up they had pretty much zero time to decorate. Provington to the rescue. It was super fun to set everything up and decorate the tree with Sister Alexander. We didn't see President Alexander much, but he did come out to say hello and goodbye.
Friday and Saturday were the days of the Nativity Festival, though we only got to go on Saturday night. It was PACKED. Later on someone told us there were about 600 people the first night and 1600 the second, and about half of them weren't members. Our zone did the last musical performance. We sang "Away ina Manger," "Oh Come all ye Faithful," and "Angels We have Heard on High." Sister Hardy rocked it on the violin. It went a lot better than our first practice would have suggested.
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Sunday was another crazy day of running in between meetings and two church services, though this is the last time we will do it probably. We also had the adventure of subbing for a primary class of five-year-olds. There were only five of them and three of us but there was still a lot of "reining in" to do. To quote an actual conversation.
Me: We show respect for Heavenly Father by speaking his name reverently.
Child: *raises hand*
Me: Yes?
Child:....... Sometimes, I eat a salad with carrots!
Well, not sure how much we taught them, but it was fun anyway.
That was about our week! Hope everyone is having a great Christmas season! And don't forget to #lighttheworld!
Love,
Sister Reay
Singing in the festival
The sisters
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