Thanksgiving 2.0

Hello Friends and Happy Thanksgiving! 

I hope everyone got the chance to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade for me. Just like last year, it was the one thing- besides family- that I missed the most. So for those of you that watched it please share with me some comments about it haha.

So I'll be honest holiday weeks are always pretty hard for missionaries. You miss home, your investigators go out of town so you don't have that many appointments, people get very irritated when you knock on their doors, and members get caught up in all their craziness so you usually don't have dinners. BUT all the craziness of the week makes the actual Holiday 10x better. 

Thanksgiving was really fun. We started the day with a Turkey Bowl with some of my favorite missionaries. It was a blast. We then hung out with a lot of different members and we played... wait for it... ♣️♦️CARD GAMES ♥️♠️!!!! Uno, Golf, Phase 10 ahhhhhh it was the best. Oh, and the food was good too. Haha.  It was actually low key amazing and I was contently stuffed. I did not go into a food coma. I did not feel like I needed to throw up. I just was content. So 1 point for Sister Aase. 

So this week was a hard one but this upcoming week looks like it is going to be amazing. Even with the hard weeks, I am so grateful that I get the chance to be a missionary. I had a person ask me the day before Thanksgiving while we were tracting at night in the rain "why are you out here? It's too cold and wet for anyone to be outside!" And I looked at her and said "We do this every day because we have an important message to share. A true message that brings us happiness and we want to share it with everyone who is willing to listen". At that time she didn't want to listen BUT maybe she will down the road. Even when people don't want to listen, I'm grateful I get to give them a chance to exercise their agency.

 I'm grateful that I myself am changing and coming closer to Christ during this process. I'm so grateful for my Savior and for a wonderful family who introduced me to Him. I'm grateful for the love and support of all of you. But most of all I'm grateful for my knowledge of this true and restored gospel and the peace it brings to my life.

Love you all, 

Sister Aase 

Pictures 

°Fun sister pictures at the Turkey Bowl

°We found some old Christmas stuff in our apartment and decked out!