Alright... are you ready for this one. I have a lot of Christmas
and stuff from the past week but we are going to start with yesterday. First off let me say…I like dogs. They are one of my favorite things in the
world and if I see a dog I am going to pet it. So Sunday at about 5pm, our appointment fell
through so we went contacting and the first house we went to had a huge
backyard and three dogs. Usually dogs bark and then when you go to pet them
they lick your hand and then you can pet them. Well this one dog in particular
was not going to just lick my hand, so to cut to the chase I stuck out my hand and
the dog bit my hand. It’s not bad, it’s
just about three inches long. I will send a picture next week. Luckily Barbados has been Rabies free for 100
years. It hurt pretty good but all I
could do was laugh because it was the stupidest thing ever but I am fine I
promise. I just laugh every time I look
at my hand.
But now to the cool stuff. Christmas... Christmas morning the Assistants made me and
Elder Mykilyski Breakfast and that was super awesome. Then we went to a Christmas service that was
being held at the church and it was very interesting because of all the false doctrine
that is said but don’t worry, we fixed it. They just made these skits for the service and
they were just so weird because they had ballerinas in them and it was just so
weird. Bajans...
After that we went to the Mission office to skype and do
stupid stuff to pass the time. We played finger football for like 3 hours and
it was just getting so insane, all the different ways to play the game and how
serious we were getting. Then when it
was my turn to skype. I honestly had no
idea what to do. I just didn’t know what to say or what I was supposed
to do. Don’t get me wrong, it was really
awesome but I just would have been satisfied just sitting there and watching my
family open presents and stuff and pretending like I wasn’t even there just because
being around or seeing family is just the best thing ever.
After Skype we went to the Mission Presidents home to eat
dinner and it was just so awesome being at a family dinner. We had these Christmas poppers and these
crowns came out of them and we all put them on and wore them, just to be funny.
Also it was super amazing to spend
Christmas dinner with our President and his family and be able to get to laugh
and not really have to worry about being in super missionary mode but just be
relaxed and have fun. Then we watched a movie and the movie we watched was
"El Dorado the city of gold” cartoon.
It was really funny because I don’t know normal funny anymore, I just
know missionary funny. It made me laugh
so much and sitting with Elder Cox and Elder Pape made it just a little bit funnier.
And then we went home and Christmas was over.
Now something really cool…on Christmas Eve we went Christmas
caroling to all the people in my area and especially to a widow whose name is Martha.
We just baptized her a little bit ago but just seeing the smile on her face and
how she came outside and sang with us was just a super cool experience. She said it was the best Christmas she had in
a long time just because of the ten minutes we came to her house and sang to
her.
It just shows that time in this world is really
important but if we can take just a little bit of time out of our super busy lives,
we can makes someone’s day and make them so much happier and even if it just
makes them smile, Isn’t that worth it! It is Christmas season and if we try to be
more like Christ year around, we can have that love that comes from Christmas
all the time.
My hand is starting to hurt typing because of the dog bite
so I’m going to have to go... just kidding it doesn’t hurt.
I’m so happy to hear from all of you and it makes me so
happy to hear that everyone is safe and happy. I love you all so much and I Wish you a great
2016!
Love Elder Fokken
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