This Christmas did not feel like Christmas very much. And when we did do Christmas activities I was really missing home. Christmas Eve day they put on a nativity, MTC's Got Talent, Scavenger Hunt, a performance by Jenny Oaks Baker Family, and caroling around the Tree of Life with hot chocolate and donuts. That night was so fun!
Christmas day we had a devotional with Elder Stevenson of the quorum of the twelve and his wife! It was great, he and his wife read us Luke 2 and talked about the gifts we give to the people we teach as missionaries; the gift of the restoration, the gift of the Holy Ghost, the gift of the Atonement and the gift of the Book of Mormon. I also got to talk to my parents on Christmas which was the best! They gave me a pillow with Bosco printed on it so he can be with me on my mission!! 
After sacrament meeting we watched Lexi Walker and Dallyn Bayles sing, and we watched the Christ Child. This video about Christ's birth just brings me so much peace and I feel His love for me every time I watch it! In Sister Stevenson's talk she was talking about how God gives us babies when He wants something done. We were born at the time we were so we can meet and help the people in our lives now. I know I am here in the MTC at the exact right time I'm supposed to be. So many sisters in my district had to wait months before receiving their call, but I am so glad because these sisters were the best Christmas gift God could give me!
After our Christmas activities, we met up as a district to talk about Christmas traditions we did at home. When we were finished with that we were playing Uno, throwing and catching mini starbursts in our mouths, and on the way back to our residence halls, we built a mini snowman and had a short lived snowball fight!!
On Tuesday we had another general authority speak to us! Elder McKonkie III spoke to us about Czechoslovakia and how missionary work came to be there. It was a miracle! He talked about how to expect miracles and the power we have as missionaries. It was such a great devotional and I learned a lot and felt inspired!
Pictures:
-winter weather
-MTC's Got Talent
-Christmas Lights
-Sisters in my District. Sister taking our photo said "Say 'Tax Evasion!!'" Hilarious
-me and my Comp. Sis. Phillips
-my Bosco pillow
Brin Brin, I'm not sure your going to get this but I wanted to share with you my testimony that you are called and prepared for your specific mission and where you are called to, after one of the comments you made or companion made in one of your blog posts. I know that my son's( your dad and your uncle Mike) were called to their specific missions to find and convert at least one soul that needed to hear the Gospel just from them. I am sure you were called to Columbia, South Carolina specifically for the same reason. You are going where the Lord needs you and you have been prepared for this mission. I love you. I know you will be the best Missionary.
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