Merrry Christmas Everyone!!!!! I hope that everone's Christmas's are just fantastic! I'm pretty excited for Christmas to come! Haha I tried to make a Christmas tree in our house made out of plastic bottles and cardboard.... Yeah it's still a work in progress... I'll take a picture of it next week when I make it look better. But hey it's something. Also I can't wait to call the family. Still doesn't feel like I've been out here that long on a mission, but Christmas is already around the corner! And just remember the true meaning of Christmas. It's all about Christ!!! And his birth and what he did for us! So this CHRISTmas be more like the Savior. Follow his example and spread the light! #LightTheWorld
Christmas Devotional!!
Wednesday we combined with another zone in the mission and had a Christmas Devotional with all of the missionaries. It was a lot of fun! And we even got to watch the Christmas Devotional held by the church. But each zone did a musical number. So the Marimba zone of like 24+ people did a parody of Let It Go! Haha it was pretty great! And super creative. And... made our zone nervous about performing ours. Haha it was that good. But anyways, our zone of 12 people only! (The smallest zone on the mission) Did a musical number of How Great Thou Art! And boy, we shouldn't have been nervous at all! We did super well and the spirit was super strong! After we finished President Mkhabela stoped us and was like, "Why don't we all sing that song" So we did, both of our zones together and it was pretty powerful! I got to conduct the music, and lead. It was a great experience. After we had such a wonderful lunch! And then we did a gift exchange! I got this little deer/ giraffe thing made out of wires. It was pretty cool.
BUT After the conference before we headed back to Bindura, we went to..... KFC! Yep! There are KFC's in Zimbabwe! But really only in Harare. It was great! Even though I never went to KFC back home. But it was cool to go to one! haha
BUT After the conference before we headed back to Bindura, we went to..... KFC! Yep! There are KFC's in Zimbabwe! But really only in Harare. It was great! Even though I never went to KFC back home. But it was cool to go to one! haha
Now for my... Elder Parco moment of the day. When we went back in the van to head back to Bindura. I brought my dipped wings with my at my seat. And when I pulled out the box with all of these dripping wings, ALL of the wings fell into the bag. Then wanting to show my disappointment, and forgetting that the wings were very drippy, I shook the box to show that all the wings fell out and said something like, "Man! All my wings fell into the bag!" That was a horrible idea. Because all the sauce that was in the box now splattered over my white shirt and on my tie! Haha I felt so stupid. But hey got to make some memories!
Baptisms! And Best Zone Ever!
We had baptisms on Wednesday! Like I always say! Always makes my day! Except before the baptism we had a wedding that we planned. First Wedding that I have done! And I think it went pretty well! Probably going to see more weddings in the future! But Baptisms were great! Elder Young Yen and I baptized 3 that day and Elder Odunga and Elder Horlacher baptized 6! So very successful! Bindura is really the high life in this mission.
Also would like to say that I have the best zone ever! Even though we are the smallest, I have had so much fun with them! Makes me sad that most likely I will be leaving next transfer! ALso our zone has been on fire with baptisms! We set a goal of 41 this month, and it looks like we are going to exceed that goal if everything goes well! So like I said Best Zone ever! haha
Also after the baptisms our ward had a christmas party which was pretty great! The Primary kids did a drama on the birth of Christ and it was so adorable and funny! Some of those little kids have a personality! Also inbetween the skits, they would play music and all the little kids would go up front and start dancing! And wow, can those little kids dance! They were soo good! Haha
Well I hope that everyone had such a great week this week!! And Have a super Merry Christmas! Love you all!
Elder Parco
Pictures:
1) Picture of our wonder Zone of 12!!!
2) KFC in Zimbabwe! haha
3) Our Baptismal font!
4)Our wonderful couple cutting the cake
5-6) Baptismal candidates!
7)Seriously! These kids can dance!
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