(Special thanks to Shannon for my inspiration for the subject of my email) Hahaha all yall thought I meant I was going back to the bury huh?? Nope. We have just been told that the Bay area (so my entire mission) is going to be on full lockdown until January 4. Stay at home order. So yeah, I'll be home for Christmas...I'll be staying in my home here in San Francisco for at least the next 4 weeks.
Luckily we had been warned that the stay at home order was going to potentially be put in place. So we've spent the last week trying to get in contact with as many new people as possible before we weren't allowed to go outside again. So we had an idea to make TONS of hot chocolate. We spent a while boiling water and mixing in the powder. We went downtown when it was cold out in the middle of a huge group of people and we put up a sign that said we had free hot chocolate. Turns out everyone wants to talk to you when you are giving away something for free. We got lots of numbers and we met lots of really fun people! It was so successful Saturday night that we did it again on Sunday night!
Nothing really out of the ordinary has happened other than the news of the stay at home order. We have been busy with teaching our friends. It's such a blessing to see the growth of a person and the growth of their faith in God.
It's going to be interesting seeing how the missionary work moves along here for the next month.
I'm hoping everyone is taking part in #LightTheWorld! Such a great opportunity to remember the true meaning of Christmas. I've had so much fun finding ways to do service and share my thoughts about the savior during the unique Christmas season. I'm really thankful that the church sends out the little prompts every year to remind me to think of the Savior during Christmas. So everyone should try to participate in the Light the World program this year!! Honestly it can be super fun if you make it fun!! :)
Love you all.
Hermana Graves
1- We happened to buy toilet paper 4 days before the city shut down and all the toilet paper disappeared #Blessings.
2- here is a picture of me relaxing in a pile of leaves at service
3- Elder Brown. What a guy. We have the best elders here. Constantly making all of us laugh.
4- us while we boiled pots of hot chocolate for what felt like forever!
5- a cute Polaroid of us at the hot chocolate stand
6- us the first night doing hot chocolate
7- "ran into" SISTER BURCH today in SF!!! Sheesh. I love her. But she's doing so good in Hayward!!
8- got some super burritos. a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. ya know?
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