December 23, 2018 Santa Fe

YAYAYAAY CHRISTMAS!!!!! its already christmas eve over here!!! 

this is definitely a different christmas!! I am still walking around sweating all day but we went carolling last night and it finally felt like christmas!! It was so fun one of the members brought his guitar and we just went house to house and read a couple versus from Luke 2 about Christ's birth and sang some christmas songs it was so fun!!!

then some highlights-
-had a pizza making night which actually turned out really good for a toaster oven 
-had ZONE CONFERENCE YAYAYAY it was so fun we played christmas games and had some good food and celebrated christmas and they had cute decorations and we all got pumped for christmas

this week has been really great!! It has been so cool to see how these people celebrate christmas even with no money for presents or decorations or a big dinner. they really take it upon themselves to spread the true meaning of christmas and talk about Christ and spread love to other people. Theres this guy who grew up in New York who owns a mexican restaurant that we eat at all the time, and he is making 200 tacos to hand out to people on christmas and we're gonna help him on tuesday!! Im so excited. He is also buying them tons of rice and presents for the kids!! I am so so excited to help him. cause it is really hard seeing all these cute little kids with no christmas like the ones that I grew up with. I don't think ill be able to look at my life the same ever again after I have seen the happiness that these people can have without literally any material belongings. i love the philippines and these people.

i had a realization that i only had 11 months left and got way sad! it really does move so so fast. i think of this time next year, ill be home!! I just wanna be able to make the absolute best of the time that I do have to serve and love these amazing people over here in the Philippines. I've learned so so much from them.

I hope you all have a merry christmas and live it up!!!! Miss you all!!

Sister Johnson




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