The look that this kid is giving me is exactly how I felt to be Santa Claus
Eggnog
sharing the Light the World message with everyone!
Sister Bhargavi's baptism!
Elder Poleboina and I with Brother Davidson at lunch!
young kids playing cricket. We shared the Light the World message with them after the match!
service project with elders' quorum
"Merry merry Christmas, happy happy Christmas!" everyone! That is the
chant you will hear as the members here go caroling, it's pretty funny.
And cool. Fun traditions.
A lot of stuff happened
this week and it went by pretty quickly. There are a few highlights I
will address just briefly so that this won't turn into a novel haha.
On Friday
night, Elder Poleboina and I went on splits in an effort to share the
Light the World message with as many people as we can. I went with a
young man who is preparing to go to the India New Delhi mission later
this month, his name is Karthik. We had a wonderful evening planned,
but unfortunately, everything we had planned for fell through. Even our
back up for our back up for our back up plans. We didn't know what to
do. By chance, we ran into some members who were doing a service
project at a sister's home nearby. We followed them and when we arrived
there were quite a few people doing quite a few things and we thought,
"Oh there's no way we'll be able to share the message with all of these
people." But we asked the leader of the project if we could share a
quick message with everyone and within two minutes
or so we had everyone gathered together in one home and shared the
Light the World video and message and they loved it! It also just so
happened that a bunch of small children came to hear the message.
Afterwards, we asked one of the cute kids, Wilson, where his home was
and he said, "Come! I'll show you!" Then he led us right to his home
and his family with whom we then shared the same message and they loved
it! They invited us to come back and teach them again this week. I
will send pictures from the experience.
Bhargavi's
baptism was yesterday and that was seriously awesome. She loves Jesus
so much and is just ecstatic about following Him. I will send photos.
The other highlights may not be as exciting but they are still fun. For example, on Saturday,
we went to lunch at the Marriott with Brother Davidson, a good family
friend here in India. He is an amazing person and also a pioneer here
in India! It was so cool to chat with him about his experience of
seeing how the Church has grown since he joined.
Also,
this is interesting, in the middle of our elders' quorum class
yesterday, the Young Women's president called me out and asked me to be
Santa Claus for a gift giving activity they were doing as a last part of
their class, so that was pretty funny. I will send a funny picture.
Lastly,
I made eggnog this week! Miraculously, we found all the necessary
ingredients to make eggnog so it's been nice to have a little piece of
home. Unfortunately we couldn't find nutmeg, but we did, however, find
nutmeg in it's true nut form; so we had to grind it into our own powder
haha, that was cool. I will send pictures. Lot of pictures from this
week.
But I hope everyone has a very merry
Christmas and finds time to reflect on the true reason for this
wonderful season. Christ truly is the Light of the World, how blessed
we are to know that. I know that He lives and I can't express how
privileged I feel to bear witness of His divine reality to the beautiful
people of India.
Happy Holi-days (get it? Because Holi is the festival of colors?). Keep the faith.
Elder Tuscano
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