Happy Holidayz - 12/29/18

Where Waldo communist edition

Christmas celebration decorations

Christmas party

Visiting Elder Phasay's village with the Hammond family

Mirror selfie feat. Katty

Hey Everybody!

Another busy week this past week. Zone conference was pretty solid. We had some great thoughts from President and Sister Hammond. We also did a white elephant gift exchange, which was pretty fun.

Saturday was the cultural celebration/Christmas party, and that was awesome. It was way bigger than I thought it would be and there were tons of tents and stuff set up. There were soooooo many people that went. That was pretty neat. There were a bunch of less active families that showed up, so it was way good to finally meet those people. 

Sunday was the dedication of the new church, so that was also an experience. It's the first church to be dedicated in Laos. Yay! We had a 70 in the Asia Area Presidency, Elder Homer, come out. He's a way cool guy and he had some cool insights about putting past transgressions, grudges, and feuds behind us. He also had a special meeting for us missionaries to just kind encourage us and talk to us about the special parts of us serving in such a unique place. He knows a lot about our situation because he's had to deal with the church in other severely restricted parts of the world. 

The rest of the week was pretty good as well. We had one of our English class certificate ceremonies where we give certificates to those that passed our class. Noice. 

For Christmas we went up to see some northern members that we haven't been able to visit for awhile. That was way sweet. We got to see a ton of members and we had a big lunch with them including like 4 of our recent converts out there.

I hope that you have all had a great Christmas! 

Keep being a great example to everyone around you! You're awesome. 

Love u guyz ;) <3

Comrade Ridd