The Christmas Season is Coming Up

Hey Readers, this post is about Christmas Season.

Christmas Season is coming up as we already know, it is not long until Christmas.
Why do we celebrate Christmas? and what should we be thinking about during this Christmas season?

We celebrate Christmas for the Birth of Jesus Christ, we should be thinking about Jesus Christ during the Christmas Season. We all celebrate Christmas with loved ones and sometimes with friends too.

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I would like to share with you a video that is about Christmas and it is find on www.mormon.org/christmas

I encourage you to watch the video and think about what it means to you. I also encourage you to share the video if you like the video.

During the weeks as Christmas coming up, I encourage you to collect some pass on cards from the Missionaries as what Elder Pinyon has mentioned for this week's email "Make sure you get some cards from the missionaries this week and give them to your friends. Explain to them how much Christmas means to you and what sorta joy it brings you. Take care, Elder Pinyon. P.s. this is what the cards looks like."

Think about the true meaning of Christmas. Spend Christmas with loved ones.

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Everyone Got to See a Special Someone Yesterday!!!

Here's this week's update. I do apologise that I didn't share last week's update on Facebook last week. 

"Hey my dear friends and family, 

This last week was crazy, I just love it. The work is awesome and everything is going great. We got a text on Friday morning that we'd have a conference call for the whole mission. I didn't know what to expect, we got it and we found out a big surprise for everyone. Everyone had to go to Berlin on Sunday to meet a special someone.

We got all our trains together and got hair cuts and polished our shoes. It was fun. Unfortunately along the way on Saturday we found out about the tragedy that happened in Paris. My love goes out to those, also I am grateful the Lord protected all the missionaries and members.

So on Sunday we drove up to Berlin and it was a lot of fun getting there. Our trains were late and we missed a few because of it, but we got there on time, so happy to get there. So the special someone was Elder M. Russell Ballard of the quorum of the 12 Apostles. He came with President and Sister Kearon of the Europe Area Presidency and Elder and Sister Christensen of the Presidency of the Seventies. They all spoke to us the words of the Lord. The spirit was amazing!!!

Before the meeting we got to shake their hands, it was a pleasure to meet Elder Ballard. Some things that I learnt were that we MUST be GREAT TEACHERS. We have great competition (aka Satan). How to become a great teacher. Prayer is essential to missionary work. Help the ward. The members NEED to pick up their slack. (Elder Ballard turned around to the Stake President and said and I quote "you need to start a fire in the members pants. Get them excited." Please members, get that fire into you, we need your help to be able to help OUR brothers and SISTERS, God NEEDS you!

The greatest teachers are those that:
Understand the doctrine of chapter 3 of PMG
Know that they are a servant of the Lord
ALWAYS SMILE!!!
Ask the people who they think God is
Being bold

Elder Ballards invitation to us is to read 3 Nephi 11. I invite you to do that too. Learn what the Saviours first words to the Nephites are. He loves you.

I love you, I hope you'll have a great week.

Talk care,

Elder Pinyon"

If you have any questions, please email me directly at megangreen20131@gmail.com

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The Title of Liberty

A long subject title, "In memory of our GOD, our RELIGION, and FREEDOM and our PEACE, our WIVES, and our CHILDREN. - the title of Liberty"

Here's this week's update.

"Hello my friends and family,

This week was crazy, awesome, exciting and short. I love my companion, Elder Green is the best, we love each other and we work really well together. He is always looking for opportunities to serve and loves the people. He's just great.

So on Thursday night I left Elder Green in Zwickau with another Distrikt Frau (the DL's companion is called a Distrikt Frau in our mission). One of my favourite missionary mates, Elder Schofield and I
drove up to Leipzig and slept the night with 7 other Elders. We had 9 Elders in the apartment that night.

Friday morning we went to Berlin and had a great Leadership Training Meeting. Seeing President again is always great. I learnt a lot. Look out this month for the new Christmas initiative "a Saviour is born". It's going to be great. After LTM, we drove home and stopped in at Leipzig on the way and got a Döner. I love Döner, that'll be something I'm going to miss a lot when I go home. We finally got home on Friday night. Elder Green was very happy that I was home, for a few good reasons :) I love him.

Saturday we taught 2 awesome friends of ours. One of them is a German that lived in America for 10 years. She is really cool and said, "if there is one church I would join, it'd be yours". So we just are
working with what we got now :)

Saturday afternoon, Elder Schofield, Elder Green, Elder Bridge and I drove up to Leipzig for Stake
conference. We had a really great time there. Also my good friend, Elder Timothy J Dykes was there, didn't get a photo this time though. Also in Leipzig, we stayed over night, was again a good night :)
Sunday morning we had stake conference and it was amazing. I sang in the choir and the spirit was amazing. The best stake conference that I've had on my mission. So happy it was my last one on the mission.

There was a lot of great talks, my 2 favourite were probably number 1. Elder Dykes talk about the Sacrament. My 2nd favourite was a talk given by a couple about ewige Ehe, wow that one was good :D Elder Dykes spoke of how important it is to think about Christ during the sacrament. That we don't need to read our scriptures during sacrament meeting to remember him, neither do we need to read in the Liahona during sacrament meeting, but that we need to better understand the symbols of the sacrament and take Christ more into our lives through the Sacrament. I loved it. Please do it.

Well another great week in Zwickau, I love this place, it is wonderful to be here. I love you all so very much and I wish you all the best!!

Take care,

Elder Jacob Pinyon"

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New Area. New Companion and District Leader again

This week's email sounds like a very great and busy week.

This week's email says
"Hey friends and family.

Wow what a week we have had here in Germany. So as some of you know, I got transferred to Zwickau, a little city of about 100,000 people. There I will train and white wash the area. So on Tuesday I went down to the train station and half of the branch came to say good bye to me. It was such a humbling moment. Just to have the members there and to cry with them. It was nice.

So for the next 7 hours I sat on a train until I got down to Zwickau. My new flat is the nicest flat I've had in my whole entire mission. So during this time I stayed with other missionaries, because my trainee wasn't in Germany yet. I stayed with one of my good mission friends, Elder Schofield. Love that kid.

On Wednesday I had District Meeting with Elder Schofield's district and it was lots of fun. After DM we went and did some service for a member and I love doing service it is so much fun. We did some garden work. At the end I'll send you some pics :)

Wednesday night I took a train down to Freiberg all by myself. I'll tell you something, being by yourself as a missionary on a train is so weird haha. That night I got to be with the other trainers and also the AP's and the Mission President. It was a lot of fun. We had pizza for dinner and ice cream for dessert. Wednesday evening we had a trainers conference and it was really good.

Thursday morning started off with a 40 minute jog through the country side. Was really pretty, but it was freezing cold. Having a nice hot shower was the most desirable amount missionaries this day. We had an hour long meeting inside the under construction temple and it was so beautiful to be in the baptismal room. Evening though it's not consecrated, it is still a holy place and the spirit is amazing.

We then had a temple tour by our Temple square sister Missionaries. That was really informational. Then afterwards, we found out who would be our new companion for the next 12 weeks. I was the first one to be called up, and my new companion is ...............................……Elder Green from American Fork, Utah. He is a super cool guy.

We have had so much fun already. Especially getting lost in our city sorta fun. After we arrived home, we went straight out and did some solid work and then had correlation meeting with our WML (ward mission leader), who is the man!!! He is so cool.

Friday and Saturday were awesome work days. We had District Meeting. Being my second time as District Leader, I got to change a few things I didn't like from what I did the first time. Also just being a zone leader, I got to see what they expect from district leaders. So it was nice. It was really great. We have a huge district. It's 8 Elders. So I'm going to be having about 7 exchanges per transfer. So I'm pretty excited.

Being at church on Sunday was amazing. I loved it so much. The ward here is great. It's really big and the people are really friendly. They love us already, I think it's the Aussie charm :P thank goodness I'm an Aussie. Life is great tho, I'm excited for the next few weeks.

I love you all so much and wish you all a great week. Take care and until next week.
Elder Pinyon"

A reminder the photos will be uploaded onto Facebook and posted on the "Mission Photos" section of this blog.

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