Letter dated 19Dec2022

Dear y'all, This week was really cool because we visited a TON of families in the local wards. Due to the shear number I won't be mentioning every visit but just keep in mind we visited a couple of households each day. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday On Tuesday I went on exchanges with my district member Elder Witte who has been awesome to work with the past 4 months. It was super cool to work with a few of his friends who are progressing to baptism and we actually decided to talk about fasting with one of his friends who is planning to be baptized and we actually got to fast with him about learning about the Book of Mormon. It was pretty cool! The next day our zone went to the temple. I kind of forgot how peaceful and wonderful it is to be in the house of the Lord and it was a sweet respite after a long time of not going. I also got some answers about some questions I have been asking for a while so I want to urge everyone, if you have not been to the temple for a while, just go. It's worth the effort. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday At one point we felt prompted to visit this one family who has a son going on a mission in February. We wanted to answer any questions he had and help him have a good boost before the MTC. It was lifting to see his excitement to serve the Lord and it reminded me of when I was getting ready for my service. It's been over a year and a half now since I was in his shoes and I have loved every single day of it. The experience made me very sentimental. We were going to teach Trey but he was busy with the holidays but he did promise to go to church. more on that later. On Saturday we found and met a new person that a member referred to us and then went to a Christmas party. We then got a bunch of referrals from some members all in his neighborhood and it was the first time tracting since our mission started focussing on only working with members which was kind of fun! Yesterday we had many of our friends come to church (Trey made it as well!) and it was fantastic! I also got to perform a special musical number which went really well. Here is a link to a clip of it: All in all I am excited for Christmas, my birthday on Wednesday, Christmas Eve, Chris's birthday also on Wednesday, Hanukkah, and Dad's birthday which is also on Wednesday. I hope this time is magically even without me :3 Merry Christmas y'all! Elder Nicholas Nephi William Schindler