MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! I hope you all have a wonderful week with your family :) sooo....some pertty exciting news, Zionsville Branch is now a WARD :) haha the people here have been waiting so long for this to happen! And the crazy part is that they took Sheridan out of our Area, and were still able to make it a ward!! I will miss the people there, but I know they will be taken care of :)
It has been super interesting working two areas! All of a sudden there are a lot more responsibilities! And we have to be very tactful with the way we plan our schedules :) for example, yesterday we went to 2 dinners haha this is great :)
We went to a lesson with Brian where we talked more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is amazing because once he understands something he is golden, no further questions about it. Brian accepted to go on a Church tour this Thursday, so we are planning for that and I think it will be good for him to see the building and hopefully he will feel more comfortable to go to church! He told us that he has been praying more on his own accord. He has some crazy things happen at the ER he works at, so he prays before that happens, and we discussed with him how now he needs to start looking for God's hand in his life :)
Sister Wilkenson has an investigator in Lebanon named Roger who has a baptismal date set and we got to have a lesson with him! He has all these questions about really absurd hypotheticals that would probably never happen, and wanted to know what would happen if those things were to happen. Sorry, that probably didn't make much sense... but it was really cool to see how the Spirit worked though all of us to be able to answer these questions, and thinking back on it, I know it definitely wasn't me that answered those questions :) but he finally came to church and had a really good experience, which is great progression toward his baptism :)
We met this lady named Mary that we tracted into and said we could come back :) When we went to her house, she had written down a list of questions that she wanted us to answer, and I felt that she was genuinely interested in our answers which was really cool. She said she was really excited for us to come back :)
We had a lesson in Relief Society on Christmas and how to make it more meaningful. The Sister said there are 3 levels of Christmas. The first being all the superficial stuff like Santa and presents and food, important yes, but not the main reason for the holiday. The second is focusing on Christ's birth and the miracle that was with the Shepherd and the wise men and everything that accompanies that. The Third level and the level to strive for to make Christmas the most meaningful, focuses on the birth, ministry and death of Christ and how all these things were needed for Him to be our Savior and that ALL these things were crucial for us to even be able to celebrate His birth in the first place. The Light the World initiative on Mormon.org is a great way to try and be like our Savior this season, so if you haven't been doing that, I invite you to check it out, what better gift is there to give to Christ than to follow in His footsteps this season? :)
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
Serving with a Smile,
Sister Bradley
-The Trio- (me, Wilkenson, Harris)
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