Merry Late Christmas!!!

This week was such a good one!!! The members were amazing and they made me feel at home. It was so nice to go the Kinkade's home and to be able to wear a short sleeve shirt and not freeze outside. At their home we ate dinner, had a fire, and opened some presents. :) It was so much fun and the coolest thing was at the end they turned a little bit of time over to the missionaries to share a spiritual thought. So the tradition that was set in my life was that we read Luke 2. As I was reading it, I could almost hear my Grandpa Bunch reading it as he has done all my life on Christmas Eve!

Then Christmas day was so fun I got to talk with my family. It was the best! It is crazy to see how much they have changed over the last 5 months!!! But everything else was way good. I hope ya'll had a Merry Christmas and I wish you a happy new year. :)

Elder Corbett

The Fed Ex guy........Go with UPS!

So training is a lot harder than it seems. You have to protect your greenie and also help them learn and grow on their own. Sadly this week we were talking with a black investigator and a fed ex truck pulled up haha. This guy was crazy. His religion is Black Hebrew Israelite. They believe that Jesus was black and that he only came to save the black people. So right in front of our investigator he started telling him that we place white people over blacks, that our church is false and that Jesus is black. I was calm, but inside I was so mad haha. After a few minutes, I finally just said, "Shouldn't you be delivering packages? Because that's what Fed Ex is paying you to do." He left upset.

Anyways besides that, the weather has been really strange. It was 80 degrees on Saturday and then on Sunday it dropped down to 30 degrees. I think that I liked the warm weather a lot better!!

I have good news. We inherited a golden investigator who has a date on January 8th to be baptized. I am super excited to be able to finish off the lessons for him and witness his baptism!!! This week has been pretty good. I hope ya'll have a fine and safe Christmas! :)

Love Elder Corbett

Elder Corbett and Elder Olsen

Wow, I am going to be a Father!!

This week we have transfers and I am going to be training. So in mission lingo we call the trainer the father and The trainee the son. I am staying in Ridgeland and I am going to be companions with a brand new missionary! How crazy is that? I have only been out for 4 months and I am going to be training someone. They say the trainer either makes or breaks the mission for the missionary, so hopefully I will make the mission for him and help him become a good missionary!! I am so excited to be able to do this.

This week has been so much fun. We went to Monroe for a zone conference and Elder Arnold, an area seventy was there. We learned so much from him and he brought such an amazing spirit with him.

Also this week we were on bikes and that was not a lot of fun, but we took Christmas pictures which was fun! Sorry I don't have a whole lot of time but I hope ya'll have a great week and I will tell you more next week about my new companion!

Elder Corbett

Straight Rain!!

This weekend it has rained non-stop and it has been so cold!! But we still went out and worked. We figured out that our cheap brick phone is nice to knock doors with as when it is cold it hurts your hands a little, so it is really funny to knock on peoples doors with our phones haha. This week we have found an apartment complex and it seems to be a gold mine with people who are willing to hear our message so that has been so much fun!! The past two weeks we really have focused on finding people to teach. We currently have 11 people who are committed to being baptized in January, so hopefully we can prepare them for that in this upcoming month. Teaching is honestly the best thing about the mission. Besides that, nothing very interesting happened this week. I miss ya'll and hope ya'll have a good week!

Elder Corbett

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