Hola a todos! So these weeks have been a rollercoaster!
We'll start it off on a good note (pun intended🎵). There has been a "12 Days of Christmas" music video initiative going on in the mission, where we had to put together 12 music videos of Christmas songs with only a month of preparation and coordination 🙃 I had an absolute BLAST putting together my jazzed up Angels We Have Heard On High arrangement, and with the help of a bunch of other missionaries to record the audio, video, and the editing, the final product turned out really good!! I also made/played the piano accompaniments for two of the other music videos, and another full choir and cello + piano arrangement is in the works for New Year's Day as well! Here is a link to all of the 12 videos: A Musical Christmas
Now for the rough stuff. We'd been teaching some 4 different people for more than three months now that have progressed a ton, but have been struggling to keep their commitments. We went from having five lessons a week with them... to one... if we were lucky. They would cancel 5 minutes before our lessons, and one of them straight up told us that she wasn't willing to change and apparently she didn't have a second in the day to read or pray. We made the decision to stop teaching them for some time. All of the progress that we had made last transfer felt like it was just thrown away. However, we now have more time during the day to find new people to teach, and hopefully something good will come of that!
Just before these challenges, however, we had a really fun meeting as a mission about setting high goals and not letting excuses or weaknesses get in our way. To demonstrate so, we wrote a bunch of excuses we might have on a piece of glass, and after announcing the setbacks we had written, we chucked the piece of glass in a trash can with a big rock in it, and absolutely *obliterated* the glass. We still have high hopes and plans to get stuff done this transfer 💪😤
Wish me good luck!
(Weeks consisting of 12/1/20 - 12/7/20 and 12/8/20 - 12/14/20)
Elder Terry
Fotos:
1) A cool picture from the music video shooting
2-3) Me taking a picture of Elder Carrier, who is taking a picture of Elder Heaps modeling his white socks off
4-8) I apparently really like taking silhouette pictures
9) Us reading off our piece of glass, just before destroying it
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