Sister Elle Jackson's Adventures in the Washington Everett Mission: Week 19: Rain Rain Rain

There is a Christmas Tree down stairs but Elle likes
to have Christmas lights around her door so she can see them.

So it has been raining almost every other day. Which from what I understand it has been snowing a lot there in Utah. So I think we are pretty similar in the weather! We were able to help out at the Christmas Choir Concert that was yesterday, it was so beautiful! We had the Marysville Stake and the Snohomish Stake get together to put on the production.

As we were ushering we had the opportunity to see Sister Daniels, she is 90 years old, an

Austrian Schizophrenic who studies the Book of Mormon at the local 76 station. No that is not the story, but this week whilst studying with Sister Daniels she decided to tell Sister Foster about her friend who is struggling to "get a baby" (infertility not abduction). She told her about this woman's struggle and then promptly left, in her usual awkward way.

This Sunday we got to help out at the Stake Christmas Concert, as I had said, and she showed up and began to tell Sister Foster even more about this lady. She said that she decided that it was her mount Moriah; Sister Foster said she liked the reasoning and her determination. She then told her that if she liked it so much she will never have babies. In fact she told her that now she is quite sure that she is going to live childless.

Elle and Sister Foster

But on the bright side we were able to have a pretty good week! Laurie and Michael came to Church again and had an amazing time. They were able to meet a lot more people because they were able to stay the entire

time. But not just meet people but become a member of the ward family! I love it! I love watching it in action and being able to be a part of it all in such a great way! I think that we have been super blessed when it comes to our ward and I am super glad that I have had the opportunity to be able to be a part of their lives.

But back to my story, at church Sister Van Leuvan came up to Laurie and asked her if she would like to go to the Arlington Nativity. The Arlington Nativity is one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen. The Stake comes together and decks out the Church with everything about Christmas. They had over 300 Nativity's set up in the gym and other rooms had paintings and then a room for the kids to dress up and take pictures and then a refreshment room. They only hold Sacrament while this is all set up because rooms are not available. Laurie was very excited to be invited. It was nice to be able to spend time with her by herself and not with Michael,"girl time"!

Sister Stillwell got an early Christmas present

We also had the Ward Christmas Party, it was so fun! It was really nice to be able to talk to everyone and just spend that time with our members and a few of our investigators. It is fun to be able to sit down with our ward family and get to know each other better and to be able to talk about the work that is going on in the area. It blows by mind all if the time when they are contently asking about what is going on and if there is anything that they can help with....even if they don't say that I know that is what they are trying to say! But I have to always remember that Missionaries make bad friends!

I am super excited that Gable got his mission call!!!! You are going to do so amazing! This work is the hardest most rewarding work that you will ever get to be apart of! I love you all and hope that you have an amazing week!