Great Week! He is the Gift!

Well this week was pretty eventful. I loved it :) I've learned to have a good attitude about things, and I'm loving my mission. I'm pretty happy :)

Monday after emails we went to the pharmacy and signed up for flu shots. As I filled out my form, I saw that it asked if I was sick. Elder Good and I both had a little of a cough, so I decided to ask the pharmacist. She said that if we felt like we were coming down with something we should probably wait. I heeded to the advice, but Elder Good didn't.

Later on in the week, Elder Good was destroyed by the flu. We had to stay home for all of Saturday, and all ofSunday after church. I told him not to take the shot! I had a little bit of the cold/flu, but not nearly as bad as Elder Good. 

 

Elder Good moans in his sleep. Really bad. For some reason, the people who snore (or in my case moan), always seem to fall asleep first. I've been able to endure through it, but when I had the little cold I couldn't stand it. I couldn't get to sleep because of his moaning. It was around 12:30 am. I got pretty ticked. As he moaned, I dragged my entire bed out into the other room, remade my bed, sighed with relief, and kneeled down to pray. As I was praying, asking to be able to sleep, I knew that I was being disobedient. In the white handbook we are expected to sleep in the same room (but not in the same bed). Ugh. I had just managed to smash my mattress through two doors and dress the bed with impeccable neatness. Why did I have to feel guilty? "God would understand," I rationalized. But it didn't make a difference. I couldn't climb into that enticing silent beautiful  bed. With much reluctance, I bear hugged my bed and once again wrestled through the two doorways. Little surprise, Elder Good slept through this entire production. I threw my sheets on my bed with disgust, and fell into my bed. I love my Heavenly Father. Through the Spirit, He prompted me to grab the fan from the storage closet. I did so, turned it on, and much to my pleasure, the rest of the night was bliss.

This Thanksgiving was a great holiday. We were able to visit with a lot of people, and were able to share messages with everyone. For dinner, we had Tur-Duck-Ham. Instead of chicken stuffed in duck, and stuffed in turkey, there was ham stuffed in the duck. Then there was bacon weaved on top of it. I wasn't a big fan of it. But that's okay, I ate it with gratitude. Not a big fan of duck.

 It was a great holiday. We shared with a ton of families a Thanksgiving message, and I realized I need to be more grateful. Every night I have been writing down in a notebook things I am grateful for that had happened that day. It helps a lot! We were given a lot of pumpkin pie, and when Elder Good was sick the Sisters brought some whipped cream and noodle soup. The whipped cream for me, the soup for Elder Good. I loved my whipped cream and pumpkin pie:

There are a lot of bald eagles here in Alaska. Its pretty cool.

We have snow now! I'm okay with it :) I'm extremely glad I have the experience of driving in the snow. It hasn't snowed much, it's a lot like Utah right now.

I said that we would have a good week, and we did. We went tracting out in the middle of nowhere. There is a subdivision about 5 miles away from any other place. We decided to tract there. We tracted into someone willing to meet with us! They weren't able to at that moment, but they said we could come back on weekends. We visited yesterday, and they were hit pretty hard by the flu. So we will visit them next Saturday :)

We also had a lesson with Greyson, which went well! We committed him to baptism, no date yet. We found a family who is willing to invite Greyson and his family over for the lessons! Super excited to have a lesson over there!

They announced the Christmas party yesterday, and in Elders Quorum we were told that the kids cannot sit on Santa's lap. That's super sad that a rule has been made for that.

Another miracle, I've been blessed with money management. Before my mission I wasn't very good at managing my money. But I've been blessed so much on my mission! I've never been in want for money. Mosiah 2:41 :)

The Church has come out with a new Christmas initiative called He is the Gift. We've been given pass along cards to... pass along. We have to give out 10 a day. In fact I just leaned over and gave one to the lady sitting next to me :) Everyone, WATCH IT. Go on

Christmas.mormon.org  and then share it! Share it on facebook! Talk about it with everyone! The December Ensign will talk about it, and you will get pass along cards in it to... pass along ;)

I'm super excited to see the success that comes from it! I love you all! I hope you all are reading and praying everyday :)

I'd like to extend an invitation this week, which I will do so from now on.

This week I want you to do the Attribute Activity in Chapter 6 of  Preach My Gospel on page 126. Work on something to improve this week, and then tell me how it went!

- Elder Tyler James Garver