Taking Flight in Everett: Thanksgiving and Stuff

Family and friends!

Hey y'all! I hope you all had a good week and a great Thanksgiving! This week was pretty good here in Anacortes. Here's what happened:

Monday: We didn't do much really. We tried going to this little store that a couple in one of our wards opened, but we found out it's closed on Monday! And it's open on Sundays! So we were pretty sad about that. But we had a really good lesson with the Landerman-Moores that night. We talked about service and Sister Landerman-Moore told us how she helped a lady with her family history before she died. It was really neat!

Tuesday: I hit 5 months! It was also our friend Renee's birthday! We made her a card and some brownies and took them too her and she was so happy! We also were able to have a little lesson with her. Later that night we went to a less active's home and they were so nice! They let us in and we talked with them for a while and shared a message and asked if we could come back and share The Christ Child video with them. (Which if you haven't watched it yet GO WATCH IT! It's so amazing and so powerful!) But they said they would really like that! We then went and did Come, Follow Me with Catherine and that was really good as well.

Wednesday: Awesome day! So I'm going to skip to what happened that night because the rest of the day wasn't all that exciting. So we left and went our for finding time that night and the first house we went to was a member's house, but her husband isn't a member. Now I went over to her house a while back and she, Sister Runyard, had told us that her husband has had some interaction with the church even before he met her. She said he's read some of the pamphlets and the Gospel Principles book and he's been coming to church with her. So, when we went over on Wednesday, Sister Runyard opened the door and said "Oh, hi sisters! Perfect timing, come one in!" Her husband was there and we were able to teach the first lesson! We than committed him to reading the Book of Mormon everyday and to pray about it. It was so awesome! We are planning to go back to teach him more too! Woot woot!

Thursday: THANKSGIVING!! We had district council in the morning and it was so good! We talked a lot about having faith and trusting in God's promises. It was really awesome and I learned so much. We then got to talk to our families! Then we had dinner at the Bethkes and that is always an adventure! After dinner, we went and visited some members we thought would be alone on Thanksgiving. We went and saw Sister Hastings first. She is in a nursing home and just the sweetest lady. She said that we made her whole night and she just kept thanking us for coming by. It was so sweet! Then we only had a few more minutes, so we prayed about who we should see. After the prayer, I said "Out of everyone we planned in, I can only think of Pam.". Sister VanDenakker looked at me and said "Same!" So we drove over there and she wasn't home. I felt we were there for a reason so we knocked on her neighbor'a door. No answer. We were about to go to another house when we heard Pam's voice and we were like "No way!" Boom! The Spirit is amazing! So we visited with her and she told us she has been reading a chapter of the Book if Mormon everyday and she is already seeing the blessings coming from it! Woot woot!

Friday: We did service at the zoo. Then we had an awesome lesson with one of our member's sons who has been bringing his mom to church for years. He finally came up to us on Sunday and said "I think it's time for me to join the church". I love it when people say that... haha! He told us more about why he wants to join the church and that he thinks this is the path he needs to take. It was awesome!

Saturday: Funny story. In the morning, we were going to go on a walk but couldn't find the keys. We looked and looked and finally said a prayer and Sister VanDenakker had the thought to check the car even though we knew they weren't there because I had to unlock the apartment when we came in last night. Well, she opened the door and the keys were in the door! Outside the apartment all night! Yeah let's just say we were seriously blessed last night. But the rest of the day we spent helping Pam clean out her daughter's room and then a couple of good lessons.

Sunday: Merry Christmas!!🎄 Renee and Lee came to church! That was really awesome! And we were able to have a really good lesson about the Word of Wisdom after church with Renee. And earlier in the week she had been talking to Sister Salas about wanting to quit smoking and Sister Salas suggested she ask for a priesthood blessing. So we had Brother Webster and Brother Watson give her a priesthood blessing and after we asked how she felt and she said that she just felt calm. It was super awesome!

Well that was the week! I'm so excited for this Christmas season and #LightTheWorld. I know that because our Heavenly Father loves us so much He sent His Son to earth for us. He showed us how to live so that we might be able to return back to our Heavenly Father. So this Christmas season I encourage all of you to do one act of service everyday. You can find great ideas and even use the Light The World calendar on LightTheWorld.org. I love and miss you all! Hope you have the best week!

Kia Kaha
Sister Twede:)🎄

Also here's my address if you want to send me letters:
PO Box 13390
Mill Creek, WA 98082
United States