Basketball! (11/21/16)

This week was great! It was a pretty long week, but great! So at the beginning of the week we had some long nights in the office because we had to translate the calendar for the church's new Christmas Initiative "Light the World" but it is going to be so cool! We are hoping to give every missionary and members little flip-booklets where they can like check off that they are doing everything. AND it says 3 times on the calendar to call your mom or someone from your family so mom... 😉(just kidding) 

*I found this post on FB, YAY Jacob!!
This was posted after Jacob wrote this email.

This week we were able to play basketball a lot this week! It is so nice! We wake up early in the mornings and go to the park and play with some other missionaries. It is a lot of fun! I am really really rusty though. It has been a year since I have played so it has been hard but it is still a lot of fun! Then during the week we played a game with the ward and I told everyone it was my first time ever playing. So at the beginning I was doing awful on purpose and stuff then when we were about to lose I started playing and me and my comp tore it up! He played basketball in High School so he is way good and it was just so much fun to play with him. 

The ward here is pretty nice as well.. none of them can really say my name yet which is normal here I guess. There is this one older lady in the ward who is so funny. She like loves the Gospel and loves the church and stuff. Whenever you talk to her you just have to say "amen" a lot because she always is like "Lamb of God amen!" haha it is great she is awesome. She is a little coo coo though.... ha. 

*Here's another pic from the Adriatic FB post.  Looks like a service day!

The work has been good for the most part. We have been really busy organizing a few things and preparing for the Thanksgiving get together. I am so excited for that by the way, we are going to be at a nice place with an authentic American Thanksgiving dinner!! It is going to be awesome. But it has been pretty crazy figuring it all out without our Mission President being here! But it has been alright. We have a new friend that we are teaching named Pellumb. He is a pretty cool kid! He really likes reading the Book of Mormon and coming to church so that is really awesome. 

But yeah that is pretty much it! The work is hard but it is great! Loving every minute of it! I love serving the Lord, it is such a huge blessing! Also, a cheesy invitation from a cheesy missionary. It is... to read the Book of Mormon! It is such a great book. Really, if you have time to read my silly blog then you have time to read the Book of Mormon. So get reading! Have a great week! 

Elder Farni