Christas Devotional with Elder Smith and Jacobsen

Thin PyaPya was baptized

PyaPya was baptized on her 12th Birthday. December 7, 2013. I spoke on the Holy Ghost and was tending my grandkids so they came with me.  After, we went out to dinner with Jeff and Tricia Saxton and family

Santa comes to Yale Park Apartments

We had our friend Santa come to the children of Yale Park Apartments. We put signs in the laundry room and talked to key people to get the children to come. They arrived and asked what we were doing.  I told them what you do when you visit Santa Clause… sit on his lap, ask for one thing you would like for Christmas, get a small toy or candy.  They were prepped, Santa arrived and they politely stood in line.  When he asked what they wanted, most said “a toy”. Santa gave them a stuffed animal and Jenna gave them a candy cane. Kay took pictures. 

We will put the pictures up in the mail room for the families to take.

No Soliciting

This week has been wonderful with so many miracles. We got to meet with Damian this past week. He has been through a lot since we last saw him in September. He came outside and we could tell that he had a broken-heart and a contrite spirit. He expressed his interest to meet with us again. He pleaded with us to come back. We set an appointment for Friday and his family came in so we tried the next day. SATAN STOP!!!! His dog was having babies when we tried back. Lame. We are going to try back tomorrow for an actual lesson.

We have been going through our area book and trying to find people. We found this wonderful family who was taught a couple years ago so we decided to go see them. We went to a fence and went through. Then we both heard a chime noise and a dog ran around the corner to greet us. Well I stood behind Sister Braithwaite and she went to the door to ring the bell. The parent's weren't there and it was super loud from the other dogs. After this panic attack we went on with our plans to go seek out a less-active. We arrived at his home and his soothing, soft voice calmed us down. Thank goodness.

We had a cool experience while tracting. We tracted in a court and we still had 25 minutes left. I looked back in my planner to look at streets we were never able to go to. I looked at Kite Way and I knew this was where we needed to go. We drove over and the first door we knocked on was a lady who was going through a rough time. We asked if we could pray for her. She agreed and we said a prayer then no one was home for the rest of the time. So Heavenly needed us for that one person.

For Thanksgiving we spent it with the Beans and went to members home and played games with them.

Everyday we have set a time that we go knock on doors. Some funny sayings we got were.

"No Solicitors" "You see this sign? You are soliciting your religion." door closed.

"What did you do for Thanksgiving? I ate, slept, ate and smoked weed."

"McGyverette" Relief Society yesterday.

The Doctrine Of Christ is your cheat sheet.

We had transfer calls this past Saturday. I will be staying in Antioch and Sister Braithwaite will be transferred to Danville. My new companion is Sister Ierubwara from Kiribati.

I love the gospel!!!

Love Sister Janell K Anderson.

Gingerbread Festival, they will take anything…

The Mormon Trail Center in Omaha has a Gingerbread festival each year. Anyone can add anything.  Each ward is asked to do one so I volunteered to make the house and the ladies decorated it.  they wanted a Cinderella Castle.  Most of my work was figuring out how to make round gingerbread shapes as it is cookie dough and kind of melts off round items.  I ended up using soda cans and leaving the gingerbread on the can and some paper towel  holders.     

The Chappell Children have decorated a gingerbread house I designed and made.  This one had a house decorated by Ethan (10) The roof by Sean (9) Play house by Jenna (7) and Dog house by Aaron (5) then Kay had me make little squares and triangles for his 11 year old scouts to make a camp and they came up with this: Quote from Kay  when he got home with it

“it is what it is” unsupervised 11 year old boy scouts