November 28, 2016

HI!

Thanksgiving was fun! The Curtis's fed us pretty well and there was a good amount of people there. Some cousins and what not and Sister Curtis's parents. Something funny that happened; the grandparents are Democrats and everyone else in the family is epublican. So they made a little game that if anyone brought up politics they would have to wear this turkey hat. They also have a daughter, Jessica, that is about to go to Thailand on a mission, which happens to be the same mission that their son Jake just got back from (same mission president and everything). So every year the Curtis's do a round robin of "I'm thankful for ___". So Jake says "in Thailand the way you say, I'm grateful for, is maga, so we should all say maga since Jessica is going to Thailand." So everyone's like uh ok and we did a bunch of " I maga family" "I maga this country" etc. The grandma takes her turn and she says how much she maga's her family and even starts to tear up a little. So then it gets to Jake (who said he wants to go last) and he says "I maga that I got grandma to say maga which actually means Make America Great Again!" So he tricked everyone and the grandma was all mad and it was pretty clever. So Jake ended up wearing  the big turkey hat. It was a good time. They had a non-member high school kid there that we're going to try and get him to come play basketball with us.

Um other than that all that really happened was a lesson with Marc, and that went ok, maybe bad. His smoking problem got brought up and our ward mission leader kind of pushed him a little hard to commit to quitting. We aren't sure how he took it and he didn't show up to church which is actually a surprise. So we hope we didn't push him away but at the same time it may have been good for him to get pushed a little bit. He seems like the kind of guy who needs it. We have a big Christmas Concert going on for our stake that bus loads of non-members come to every year. They play it on the 2nd 3rd and 4th and the Stake wants all the missionaries there all three days.

We bought a pressure cooker and have been making soup from scratch. It's super cheap and pretty good. It's probably a lot better for us than what we have been eating as well. We even made our own broth and everything out of chicken wings.

Uh I think that's it?

Love you!

Elder Sherwood