December 16, 2013

Here's the latest from Sydnie! Enjoy!

Hey!

We do get to Skype [on Christmas Day]! I am excited! It's a little weird too though, but mostly exciting! We are going to go to a members house (the Orme's) and will be Skyping from there. Not sure on times or anything yet. I have been told that we will be able to call mom and dad Christmas Eve with more exact times. The family's house we are Skyping at has a son who is also on a mission and we are still trying to figure out exact times that we will all be able to Skype.  

It is so crazy that I have been out 6 months! The only crazy thing they do here is when you are 9 months out you take 'pregnant pictures'. It's really weird because you will have 9 months both ways, so I probably won't do that...

It's still a challenge to get to know Sister Bynum. She is very quiet, which is odd to me. Sometimes it seems like you have to pry stuff out of her, but only in lessons and Church. When it's just the two of us she can't stop talking. It's odd. We are working on it. I am trying to give her more opportunities and we talked a lot about if you don't know what to say, just bear your testimony or back up what your companion has said. I just have never had to deal with the problem of having a companion that is too quiet.

It was freezing last week but thankfully it is getting warmer here this week. Last week, we had to tract more than usual. President has challenged us to contact 10 new people every day and we haven't really been getting referrals, so that means that we get to tract. But we had a cool chance last week. In Plattsmouth they have a Christmas on Main celebration where they have carriage rides, hayrides, real reindeer, and all the shops are open and have food. And everyone dresses up in Victorian clothes. It was way fun. We didn't get to spend much time there because we were on exchanges, but it was pretty cool.

We had our ward Christmas party last weekend and this week we had the Relief Society Christmas party and 2 of the less actives we are working with came! We also had lessons with Jenny and Brian (the less-active's husband) and Jenny is still progressing at a snail's pace but still going. And he is ever interested in Joseph Smith. His family is pretty anti-Mormon, so he has some skewed ideas about Joseph Smith but is every interested in learning more about him.

Love you! Merry Christmas!