To Dad: I gotta make this email quick. The Brems are rushing me because we are headed to Gallup and they are waiting on me! Elder Rogers is driving because he really wanted to. I kinda wish I was driving because I was originally the driver but that's okay. Hope you're prepared for a video call tomorrow! I am getting together with the Bartons, a senior couple somewhere in Chinle or something like that. Bye Padre!
To Mom: I'm very excited for the call tomorrow! I am getting together with another missionary senior couple named the Bartons. They will help me get my call through, I think. I haven't talked to them yet. I am getting rushed to email because the Brems need to get out to Gallup and we are using their computers. I'll see if I still have some email time later today. We can split up email time, according to our district leader so that's good. Bye-o!
Allison showing him a Homer Simpson sticker she got for Christmas.
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Yá'át'ééh Keshmish! When New Year's day hits, I will have served for the entire year of 2018! I am so glad that I chose to serve a mission. It has had it's rough patches, but these experiences have helped me grow so much. 8 more months and I'll be home!
Well, my past week wasn't all that exciting. Elder Rogers and I had a hard time finding things to do because of the weather and everyone was gone. Things haven't really picked up too much, but they have a little. It is best to count your blessings than dwell on any shortcomings.
We did, however, have a lesson with Edison and Lola, plus their family and relatives a couple days ago. They started talking about who was and wasn't baptized after we shared our message. Hopefully we can help them get to that point!
Anyways, I am glad to have the time to email once again. I missed last week because I got really busy with the other missionaries in my district.
Hagoónee!
This is the gas station by the church/trailer.
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Dear dad,
Oh man, if I could have stayed on that video chat forever I totally would have! I am hanging out with the other missionaries in Window Rock/Saint Michael's for the holidays. So far we have just played basketball and gone shopping. I am hoping to play some card games at some point. Have you ever played that card game Scrimish? I think it was you and the family who sent it to me. Well, that game is really fun! It turns out that each character deck in that game is a single player, so right now I have it as a 2 player game. You can add different characters as you buy different decks! Pretty neat.
(Come, Follow Me) In the new manuals, I have really only studied it with the branch for Sunday school yesterday. That's about the extent of my studies of it so far. I like the pictures in it! We will have to wait and see if President Yazzie wants us to teach it in Sunday school, but I suspect that the teacher will be Sister Joseph, a member out in Jeddito who can't make it to church all the time. Hagoónee shicheii!
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Dear mom,
Hello! Yeah, I guess we are a bit grounded right now, but I don't remember if I told you that we aren't supposed to proselytize on big holidays anymore! Today we are going in to the Window Rock missionary trailers and staying over there all the way into tomorrow.
I really loved your Christmas presents. I love the new watches! I don't know if they were both from you, but thank you! The green watch is the best!
I wish I could have talked with you guys forever on Christmas. I think that's 3 out of 3 times that you have cried after I bore my testimony in a video call! I really miss you guys, especially right now. I will stay strong and endure to the end of my mission, though. I know that serving a mission was the right choice. I was really worried I wouldn't be able to handle the outside world when I first came out, but now I am totally fine with talking to strangers and adapting to different environments.
I love and miss you! Please keep sending pictures, I love them so much!
-Elder Dittmer
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