Thanksgiving was great but unfortunately the work was pretty
slow with the holiday. Both our wards on Sunday were near empty (I guess
Vegas isn't the place to be for Thanksgiving) and for sacrament meeting
one of our wards just sang hymns. We weren't able to meet with Kendal,
Dray or Gina and Micah for the interview. We were however able to visit
the Ha'o family and help them with their Christmas decorations! Also
random side note while we were out making visits we saw our mail lady
with her kids putting up lights so we now know where she lives. The
Turkey Bowl this last week didn't end up going in our favor as our team
tied one game and got creamed in the other two, and it certainly didn't
help that we were playing against a zone that had a BYU football player
on it who was 6'8" and could catch anything they threw his way.
This transfer has been flying by for me and it's
crazy to think that I could be in a new area in less than two weeks.
I've grown attached to Red Rock and it's going to be hard to leave, but
if I do get transferred I'm hoping they send me out to the boonies. I
love Las Vegas but I feel a bit claustrophobic not being able to drive
out of our little bubbles, and it's going to be weird not having area
boundaries I have to stay in after the mission. I hear that there
are some farming communities in our mission so I'd be pretty down for
being sent out there for a while.
The work is beginning to really pick up as we
approach December and everyone is feeling the Holiday joy. The last
couple of weeks we've been focusing on inviting people to the Nativity
which has been really successful for us. We have a number of
investigators and less actives who plan on attending and we'll be there
to help usher on two of the four nights. Just last night we stopped by
an investigators home to invite her out to the Nativity and we ended up
getting even more than we hoped for. Our investigator had a friend over
who had stopped coming to church but really opened up to us and wanted
to come to the Nativity and to sit in on the lessons we'll be teaching.
This just testified to me that there are many people in the church who
are ready to come back into activity but just need someone to help them
back.
We had a temple trip today which is why our P-Day
was moved to Wednesday rather than our usual Monday P-Day. The temple
was a great experience and I love the spirit that the visit brings into
our lives even as missionaries. I also discovered some neat features to
the Las Vegas temple that I did not know about from my last visit.
Throughout the grounds surrounding the temple are these brick patterns
along the walkway, well every now and then you come across a circle of
bricks on the ground. When you stand in the center of the circle and
speak it sounds like your voice is being magnified by a dome or speaker
system which is pretty neat! Well anyways it was a good day and we've
got a couple of lessons set for tonight. I hope that you are all doing
well and recovering from any injures that might have been brought about
from ward Turkey Bowls. I love you all and keep you in my prayers! Love,
Elder Keller Reeves
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