A Very Happy Christmas and the Ugly Cry

28 December 2020

6 months as a missionary WOOO!! Sooo wild that I have been wearing a tag for this long. I LOVE IT. 

We had our Christmas Eve mission devo this week. It went so well! We poured so many hours into this online fireside, and we were SO worried about the streaming quality over zoom. The video for the opening and closing hymns were very delayed and slow, but by MIRACLE our video did not glitch or delay ONCE! It was seriously the best Christmas present.

Another cool thing that happened this week was with our new friend Emiljana.  We were walking in to her shop one night to say "Hi," and I had tons of stuff in my hands so my book was in my purse. I had a thought that I should pull it out. So I shuffled all my bags and things in my hands around so I could hold my Book of Mormon! And as soon as I walked into the shop, she took the book out of my hand, opened it, and asked about it. SO COOL!

Christmas this week! It was very fun and very different.  But we did get out of quarantine on Christmas Eve! We caroled to members and it was seriously so fun. We got so many smiles! We did a fun gift exchange with the district on Christmas Eve and I got a silver knife/fork teehee. 

Bummer this week- Aina's dad decided she couldn't get baptized yet. Font was full and everything!  It is frustrating because she has been attending church for over a year and a half now and is SO ready!!  But I have zero doubts that she will be able to get baptized soon.  Pray for her!

New Year's this week should be a big celebration woot woot! Albanians celebrate it way more than Christmas.

I finished up the Book of Mormon again this week, and let me tell you people...I love that book.  It truly changes me every day that I read it!!

Fav scripture in the Book of Mormon this time around:
Ether 6:10 - And thus they were driven forth; and no monster of the sea could break them, neither whale that could mar them; and they did have light continually, whether it was above the water or under the water.

I know that God will give us light, whether we are above or under the water!! 

LOVE YOU ALL! 

HAPPY 2021! This is gonna be a heck of a year, I can feel it!!

Xoxoxo
Sista Munns
 

My little sister and I have the same ugly cry. I hope you laugh at this picture as hard as I have been all week!






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