Week 68. Cookie Fiasco

 I promise I wrote last week, it just didn't get sent. So now you'll just have to wonder what crazy shenanigans I got up to last week. In the meantime here's what I did this week:

Zone Conference - it started at 9am and we decorated a tree, opened presents, and had a few musical performances. Then we broke off into smaller groups and my group talked about who Christ was to us. It was super good. We had lunch in the middle and then finished cleaning up and got home around 5. 

Let me know if anyone else has had a work meeting go from 9-5 

Maguires - literally the best part of this week. We went over for dinner, shared a lesson, and then right before we left Ashley asked us a question. 

For background, Brady is a recent convert of 4 months and Ashley is his wife. They have 2 kids, one of which is old enough and wants to be baptized too. Ashley loves the church and we've answered all her questions but something was still holding her back. She told us that day. 

Brady's baptism shocked her a bit because she didn't know what was going on, so she just wanted to be involved in planning it and making the decisions. It was so awesome, that she was finally able to get past this one understanding and is now ready to be baptized. We don't have a date yet, but a desire is the first step and she's got it. 

Thursday - we had dinner at the Oates house, they are cool and the food was good. But the thing that stood out the most was their fish pitcher. 

Four Seasons - it's the buffet in Burlington and it is so amazing. It's an Asian/American mix of food and it's super good. 10/10

Christmas cookies - this was a whole weekend ordeal. It started Friday night when I made my first experimental batch. I made some mistakes and wasted half of it, but that was the whole point. Then Saturday, when I knew what I was doing, made another batch and then realized I was not ready to decorate 80 sugar cookies. Harkness stopped after 20. And I barely got through the rest. We passed them all out, with a note that said You got jingled. So we will see if they'll pass it on. 

Interfaith Devo - so we had a community event with another church's bell choir, our stk choir, and the high school choir. It was pretty good and a lot of people came. 

Spiritual thought - someone shared this with me the other day:

Another name for Santa Claus is Father Christmas, who brings presents. On the 25th we celebrate the time when Heavenly Father gave His son as a gift to us, so that he could grow up and become our Savior. 

I'll write again next week, but until then remember to be grateful for all the gifts you receive and the one our Father gave to us. 

Love y'all, Here are pics