Christmas In DC South 12-29-2025

Helloo friends and family! Merry Christmas! My hope and prayer is that this Christmas was special for each one of you. I guess yall will just have to send me an email telling me all about it! Im grateful for each one of you and I want yall to know that you are special to me and to a loving Father in Heaven who sent our Savior and King down to this earth in a Lowly manger just for you...yes you. This week has been exhausting, but yet fun and fulfilling. I have learned a lot haha. Tuesday we had district and Zone meetings till 12:30 and then we had MLC following that until 5! Lots of spiritual meetings and some good council! It was there in MLC we vocalized our Assignment and got feedback from the MLC. Let's just say there is a lot of work to be done this transfer. The goal is to baptize 44 for Christ, but we are updating the culture of the mission and ramping up accountability to help us have a baseline of 44, then 50, then 60, and so on until the day we baptize 153 in a month. This transfer will be a foundation for that. We can all feel it here in this mission. Wednesday was awesome! The office was crazy so much chaos in Christmas packages, but we did some good work and had a potluck with all th3 senior missionaries! So fun! We also had dinner with the stevens a senior missionary couple and it was just a delight. We had 1 extra loaf of bread my companion made to handout with no one to hand it to and we both felt prompted to stop by 2 new senior missionaries. When we got there they looked so stressed exhausted and depressed. It was the first Christmas away from home for one of them and they have just struggled like every senior missionary in the beginning. Giving them a loaf of bread and praying for them was a Joy never to forget. Christmas day was awesome! We figured since the roads would be less busy we traveled across half the mission delivering and picking up bikes listening to Christmas music. We were craving Thai food and literally not a single thing was open and we were far from our apartment. We went to a restaurant that said open online and it wasn't as we went there. When we got there we looked across a huge empty parking lot and saw a place called House Of Cho and it was open! Their food was soo good it was a Christmas miracle! We later drove and did more bike stuff and then dropped off some homemade bread to part members and friends we are teaching. We had the most boujee dinner ever and then went caroling with our district. We caroled at our friend Ibes house and his whole family was there. The spirit was strong. I love my savior Jesus Christ. His condescension to a Lowly manger inspires and humbles me to be better everyday. Friday we got ten new bikes as a mission so we picked up 5 dispensed them and that was so fun being Santa for a day dropping off new bikes to missionaries. We were so beat, but we went and found friends still and got free empenadas from a person we found! God truly blessed us. Saturday same thing drove across the misison dropping off bikes and figuring stuff out. It was surprisingly exhausting in a weird way. Driving for 4 hours and then doing missionary work takes it out of you. We both were on our knees pleading for strength and we did our best and went out and found Joy! We had a beautiful lesson with a friend and it was awesome. God blesses those who try. I love you all so much if you get anything out of this email know that Jesus Christ is Joy and you can minister to others in many different ways and serve in any capacity. We are cooking something up for the mission right now being piloted so stay tuned. I love you all! Happy new year! Stay sweet-Elder Williams Alma 24:27 And there was not a wicked man slain among them; but there were more than a thousand brought to the knowledge of the truth; thus we see that the Lord worketh in many ways to the salvation of his people.