January 1, 2015 Garrett didn't write the week of Christmas, but we had an awesome phone call/Skype.
Dear Mom and Dad!
It was so great to be able to talk with you last week! It
was super great to see the family and to actually hear your voices! I miss that
A LOT! But it sounds like you guys are loving the Christmas gifts! The ping
pong table is pretty awesome! I am sure everyone is loving it! Naisbitt house
is the party house again! :) That is too bad to hear that Ash was sick, that's
awful! Hopefully he is feeling better today! :) I hope you guys had a great New
Years Eve and are having a great New Years Day! I hope everyone has made high
goals that will make 2015 the greatest year! :)
Well not much has happened since I called! I threw some
photos on Drop box of the Multi-zones and the fun we had! There is a sweet
photo with Elder Hayes and I with Boas and Sweet hats! :) It was super fun,
even though we could not participate very much, everyone else had a BLAST!!
Thank you so much for the really sweet letter Dad and Mom that you wrote! I
have it kept nice and safe in my luggage so it does not get destroyed! I loved
how you wrote it dad, I knew I had changed, but its hard to see the change from
a personal view. Thank you so much! I hope you guys received your Christmas
package! The mission this year baptized the most it ever has in the whole time
of it being a mission! We baptized this year 1724 people! More than 500 people
than last year! I'm super pumped to see what President makes the goal for the
next year! I bet it will be in the 2000's! THIS IS THE LORDS WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow I get super emotional when I share my testimony because I now know with all
my heart that this is the Lords work! and I know that we are called of God by
his living prophet Thomas Monson! This is the true church of God
23 For behold, my beloved brethren, I
say unto you that the Lord God worketh not in darkness.
24 He doeth not anything save
it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even
that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him.
Wherefore, he commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation.
I love this scripture a lot because really God
wants all of us to partake of his love and his light that is given from Christ!
i know that this is the true church of God and that all of these things in the
church are true and if anyone will experiment on the words of Moroni, which are
read, meditate, and pray to see if the Book of Mormon is true and if the Church
is true, they will receive a testimony from the holy Ghost that these things
are true! I love The Lord!
Well the only cool thing that happened yesterday
was the New Year celebrations! The Nicaraguans every year make these little
dolls called the old man, which signifies the old year, and all of the old
habits, and so they get a bunch of old clothes and stuff the clothes with a
bunch of fireworks and firecrackers, and at midnight they light the doll on
fire and it basically blows up haha :) it is super awesome! I put a few photos
of one of these dude they had hanging from a telephone wire, and how he looks
:) the tie on the front is a strip of firecrackers, and they wrote on it 2014.
It was super creative! :) Anyway so we got back to the house around 10pm from a
members house, and by the time we were all ready to for bed it was like 1130,
and that was when we the noise began! It was so crazy! it sounded like we were
in a warzone! there was just a continuous sound of explosions and bombs! wow it
was amazing! It would be super awesome to have the chance to come back here
this time of year with you guys! :) so by the time the fireworks ended, it was
like1 am, and that was about when we finally fell asleep! crazy night!
Well that is about our week! next week is change
week, so I probably wont be writing for two weeks, but if I get a few minutes i
will shoot you an email to let you im doing great!
Hey this can be outside of the letter, but i have
ordered two books from Amazon, two missionary reference scripture guides to
come to the house! Hopefully they get there soon! When they do, could you just
toss them in a package down to me? That would be super duper awesome! You guys
are the greatest! And if when you are sending that package, could you throw in
some candy, like DOTS and Oreos :) Elder Benson just received a package with
these two monster huge boxes on Dots and now I'm craving some :) that would be
the greatest of the greatest! I love you so very very very much!!! :)
Elder Naisbitt
