Can you believe just a week until it is Christmas eve! It came so fast. I am loving the spirit of Christmas and loving being a missionary at this very special time of year.
For some business. This is what is going down in a week. We will be able to do some emails next week but wanted to get everything organized now. Christmas Eve we will be at the Lala Hariniaina household. We will celebrate until the wee hours of the night, we are allowed to be out till 11:30. Then Christmas Day we will be going to their home around noon for a Christmas Day meal and love, and then going to an American families home, the Davis' around 4 pm. There we will be with the Elders and the Davis's and we will skype and or call our families. Being my considerate self I thought that Skyping the family at 7:30 pm FRANCE TIME would be good for the rest of you, including the Steele family on the west coast. Remember I am six hours ahead of EST, 8 ahead of MST and 9 ahead of PST. Tell me if this needs to change. Mom I need the information with the card again, especially how to call from outside the US. Please fill me in on this. Thanks. Brother and Sister Davis' asked that whoever we are going to call on skype request their skype name so that we do not need to sign on to our own skype account. Dont ask why, I dont really understand either, but its their computers so I am not arguing. They gave their emails for this so that they are easy to find.
I think that is it about that. Let me know by next week any questions that you have already thought of and I can try to have them ready to answer so that time is not wasted. I only have an hour. I am very excited to see you all. Dont be surprised if I cry my eyes out, Its been a REALLY long time. Also please dont make fun of my english. I dont speak that well.
So about this week. It has been good. A growing week for myself. Its going to be a growing transfer. I am learning a lot about myself. Because Sister Klingaman and I are the same age in the mission the talk of ends of the mission seems to come up more often than any of my other companions. I will be totally honest and say that I am really scared of life after the mission, School, Marriage, Family. I dont like to think about it. But each week during companion inventory I ask my companion to give me one thing I can work on. Soeur Klingaman has asked me to get more excited about marriage. So following through on my commitment I read a talk this morning about Becoming Goodly Parents, by Elder Perry. It was great. I really loved how he gives clear examples of things we should do to become better parents and to strengthen our families. I know that my mission is preparing me for marriage, and raising a family in the gospel. I am so grateful for my mission. I will be very sad to no longer have the missionary spirit with me when I am released.
Enough of that. Things with our amis are good. Julien is still progressing. This is our last week with him before the Christmas Vacation so we really need to make sure he is feeling the spirit and ready to be on his own for two weeks without anyone telling him what to do or without his normal things that help him to be close to the Lord. Dan our wonderful Chinese friend was in Poland this week for a Conference but he was at church yesterday and we will see him tonight before he leaves for another Conference in Sweden. It still boggles my mind that we are so close to all these countries that it is no big deal to travel to Sweden or other countries. Vaber is going. Quit smoking, as far as we know, and becoming more humble.
This past weekend was the Ward Christmas Party. It was great. I truly love this ward so much. Saturday before the party all of us missionaries went out with ward members to go visit less actives and sing Christmas Carols. It was such a wonderful time. I loved being with the Bishop and other members and feeling the spirit of Christmas together. On Wednesday we are going to GENEVA!! We will be having our Christmas Zone Conference there, The zones of Lyon, Geneve and Lausanne will all be there. It is going to be so great! I am also going to email Eduardo, Miryam, Tatiana and Soeur Spirig to tell them I will be there and hopefully will get to see them! Especially Eduardo and Miryam, I heard they were having a hard time. Its going to be a great week. I am sure I will have some good stories for you when we talk.
Mom asked about Christmas Decorations here. I think its better in the US. Maybe I am biased, but I miss the US for Christmas. It might just be that I am a missionary too and I the only Christmas music I get to listen to is MoTab but either way its great. People do say Happy Holidays here. There are tons of Muslims, Jews, JW and all that so there is still reason to say it. Plenty of people that do not celebrate Christmas.
This is getting long and I am running out of goods to tell you. We are emailing early today because we will be going to a Castle and to visit some historic sites today, one of which is a Napolean statue. Anyway. I hope you all have a great week and remember to love the missionaries in your wards. Its not a very easy time to be away from home.
Love,
Sister Kimberly Addis
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