Elder Field Turns 20!! And Freaking Christmas Calls!!

Hey friends!!! 

This week was loooooong just because this week was busy and I feel like I didn’t stop moving.

So as you may know this week was my birthday! I turned 20! Freaking weird right?? Elder Field no longer has the word teen in his name! Woot Woot hahaha. I had a wonderful birthday! The district threw me a little surprise party that I totally caught on to when someone said they wanted to go eat in a particular room of the church hahaha. They threw me a little surprise lunch and bought me a bunch of little gag gifts from ghetto dollar store hahaha I loved them all!!! My district is so awesome. We are like a little family out here hahah it's awesome. A really big and dysfunctional family!.......pretty much like my family back home ;) I'm kidding!!! I’m kidding!!! I love my family!!! 

Speaking of which I totally got to call home this week!!! Best Christmas present ever!! I got to see all my family and my aunt Annie and Grandma!!! I even got a see my lovely friend Dani who is on a mission!! Woot!! Shout out to her for just being plain awesome! It was an awesome time. I can't believe how big my siblings have gotten. I have only been out for 6 and a half months and Parker is way taller than my mom, and his voice is so freaking deep Carson is getting tall, Alivia is getting tall hahaha and my little sister Danika...... well she is about the same height ;) Love ya Danika. But she has a boyfriend..... don’t even get me started on that.

Anyway Christmas was awesome this year. We had a member who showed us a movie called "The Nativity" (yes we got permission from our mission president hahaha) which was really good. And had a wonderful dinner with the Johnsons where we played some games and ate really freaking good street tacos..... Oh man it was so good hahaha!!! They even gave us and the sister a present hahah. They gave us each a nerf gun hahaha!!! We are planning on having a war today :) I'm pumped hahaha but this Christmas was a special one. I mean away from the family, didn't have any super big parties to go to. And I was kind of down in the dumps. So I really had to focus on the Savior this year. It was really nice :) he really gave me the strength to keep going through this Christmas season :) the spirit of Christ is strong this time of year. I love it :) so good!! 

We had a missionary Christmas party which was awesome. Me and Hermana Foster sang in it though hahaha. We sang Who Would Send a Baby. I have video of it, but it's too big to send over email. But the song went really well :) Hermana Foster carried the song though haha.  But anyway the party was a lot of fun. We got to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas hahah that was awesome!! I forgot how much I love that movie. But yeah it was just so lot of fun

Unfortunately, with this week being Christmas and what not it was hard to go see people/investigators we tried our hardest to go see people, find people and just really didn't have much success :( but we worked as hard as we could for the Christmas season. We did however get 2 referrals from a member!!! So we are going to go contact those on Tuesday :) I got a good feeling about them!

Thank you all again for your birthday wishes and Merry Christmases!! Have an awesome week!! I love you all!!!! Merry CHRISTmas!!! 

-Elder Riley Field

Pictures!

 Happy Birthday to me!

Hermana Foster Hermana soba, Elder Meyers and I :)

Another gross photo of me ;)

Elder Field Wishes You All A Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas guys!! I can't believe it’s almost Christmas already!! Holy cow! This month just flew by, but at the same time it felt like forever hahah weeeiiirrrddd. Got to love that good missionary life, am I right?

Anyway! This week was quite eventful actually. As yall may know I am training this transfer! The name of my new companion is Elder Siebach! He is from Dover, Delaware! And let me tell you I have a feeling this is going to be an awesome transfer!! He is Hecka cool! We get along really well!!! It was a well needed change from last transfer :D Elder Siebach is 18 years old, he came straight out of high school, and he is the 10th of 12 children...... yeah freaking 11 siblings..... I thought 4 was a lot hahaha!!! He actually did choir as well!! So of course once sister Wright found out (Mission president’s wife) she assigned us a song in the Christmas party we are having this Saturday. I’m also singing a duet with Hermana Foster. Not sure what song we will be singing but who knows!! Hopefully I can learn it by the end of the next couple of days hahah.

This week started off normally I guess. Just went around on Monday saying goodbye to people elder Magee wanted to go say goodbye to. Nothing that fancy. That night I didn’t sleep too well hahah...... because the next day is when I would be officially District Leader and I will be getting my greenie. I was quite stressed and kinda freaking out hahaha.

The next day was quite a long and busy one. First we went up to Santa Rosa and I dropped off Elder Magee with his new companion. He took off pretty quickly. I got to see Elder Taylor my last companion while there. That was fun hahah. Same with Elder Knowlton! My MTC comp. We talked for a bit. Freaked out with each other because we hit out 6-month mark haha. It was nice seeing everyone from the MTC district. hahah. I also got to see Elder Brooks. I don’t know if I talked about him much but I served with him in Vallejo and we got along really well. Hahah we sat and talked for a little bit which was nice. After all the festivities that tend to come with transfers, I went to a meeting. We had a short little meeting then I was to go with 2 other elders and work in Santa Rosa for about 3 hours, after that was done we would go and get trained on how to be a good trainer..... boy talk about the longest meeting on the planet, but it was really helpful :D After about a 2 hour meeting we got to meet our new companions. They brought all the Greenies into the room where all the trainers were and to be honest as soon as I saw Elder Siebach I knew he was my new companion hahah. We took photos, we talked and got to know each other, then we had dinner with President and his wife which was nice. Then we drove down from Santa Rosa to San Rafael, about an hour drive. My poor greenie was out cold for the entire ride haha. I took him to the church and introduced him to all the other members of the district and then we took him home to sleep haha.

Wednesday was chill, but extremely busy at the same time. Nothing too exciting happened. I took Elder Siebach to get some groceries, filled him in on the area, and then we went to food bank :D it was fun :D Had a lesson with Celeste that night. We had to push her baptism back. She hasn’t come to church yet..... so we pushed the baptism back to January 14th. I’m extremely sad but also happy about it. Hopefully everything goes well in the future. She didn’t come to church this week either.... so we will be going over and having a talk with her hahaha.

Thursday, we had some cool experiences. We started off the day with some more training. We got all of his technology stuff taken care of. (set up his area email, area book, just general items about technology) then we had lunch with a member and her nonmember friend. The lesson...... went..... okay...... I guess hahaha, the spirit was there so I guess it went well. It was a really scatter brained lesson. She asked a lot of questions and expressed a lot of concerns she had about the church. After all the question answering, we asked her if she had read the Book of Mormon, she said yes. Something told me I should pry a little deeper.  I asked where she left off in the book and she said somewhere towards the beginning because it was so unbelievable. Again the same feeling came.  I asked her what story was happening just to see if I could clear up and confusion she had with a story, maybe that was her problem. She said she couldn’t remember the story. This time I got a different feeling. It was a feeling confirming to me that she had not read the Book of Mormon. Got to love that good spirit of discernment am I right? :D Of course she wasn’t understanding any of it. She hadn’t read the thing we base all of our beliefs off of hahaha! So we pretty much ended the lesson right there and challenged her to read the book cover to cover. And she said she would. So hopefully that goes somewhere haha. Later that night we went to go see a man by the name of Richard we met at the food bank a couple of weeks ago. Knocked on his door and he was extremely drunk hahahah. So after having a very strange conversation with him, we set a return appointment earlier in the afternoon haha hopefully he won’t be drunk this time. While we were leaving there was a lady and her kids who were moving into an apartment. So we stopped and helped her move stuff in. She thanked us we gave her our card and walked away. When we got in the car Elder Siebach looked at me and said, "We need to go back and talk to her again." I shrugged and said, "Alright whatever the spirit of God wants right?" We started to walk up and she was in her car going to drive away. Elder Siebach looked so defeated but I wasn't going to let my greenie be too defeated, so I sprinted up to the car and knocked on the window (I know this seems a little drastic but the spirit gave my companion a prompting, it had a be for something) she rolled the window down and we asked if we could visit with her sometime and she said in 10 mins we could! So we went and sat in a car for the 10 mins preparing a lesson. We had a wonderful lesson with them about the Book of Mormon. Her name was Keisha and she has 4 kids who had a lot of questions about religion. We gave them books and asked if we could come back they said we could :) So cool! Elder Siebach was pretty pumped.

Friday was just weekly planning and I had a meeting in Santa Rosa about how I be a good district leader haha. Woot.

Saturday we had zone meeting pretty much all day. We filmed our Mormon message. For the Christmas party we as a zone were asked to film asked Mormon message, we made ours funny, we did ours like the children bible videos haha, we all pretended to a 4 and explain different Christmas traditions, so fun.

Sunday was busy!! Had an awesome time at church, I had a teach Elder Quorum which was fun. I was informed the night before haha swag. We had another meeting in Petaluma. Sooooooooo many meetings hahaha..

Anyway! This week was good! I'm excited for this transfer and am looking forward for the new adventures as DLT :) Anyway I love you all and miss you! MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Remember what Christmas is really about. 

I love you all!!

Elder Riley Field 

Pictures-

Paper boats that we made and the aftermath (it's been raining so freaking hard here hahaha)

 A picture I drew haha

 And Elder Siebach!! What a stud! Ignore my nasty hair cut!  hahaha

Elder Field And The Start Of A New Transfer

Hey guys! So this week was transfer doc week! which means Elder Field now knows what will be happening for the next six weeks! So! I’m staying San Rafael. No surprise there I was fairly certain of that. But here is the kicker....... I will now be District Leader...... That’s not all...... I’m also going to be training a new missionary, straight out of the MTC..... That is the part I’m terrified of...... hahaha holy crap guys!! I’m freaking out!! TRAIN?!?!? AND DL?!?!?!?!? I hit my 6-month mark and I guess they decided I needed some responsibility in my mission life..... gosh.... this next transfer is going to be an adventure and I’m looking forward to it. This also means that my companion Elder Magee will no longer be in San Rafael. He will be transferred to Vacaville...... *cough* yay *cough*....... I’m kidding ;) we actually started to get along better towards the end of the transfer.... he is on to bigger and better things. and I’m happy for him.

Anyway this week was a long week only because of the transfer docs... we were so stressed out for them it was ridiculous. But it was a busy week none the less :D

Monday was a pretty chill day. We went down to Sausalito! Love that place haha. Its super touristy but they have some cool stuff. We went shopping for family gifts and things like that :D it was just a super chill day. After the p-day festivities, we had a lesson with Celeste (an investigator with a baptismal date.... kinda, I will explain later) We went in and had a great lesson with her. We went over the baptismal interview questions with her to get her ready to ACTUALLY be interviewed. It was a very spirit driven lesson which was nice :D We then set up 3 lessons a week with her. All the way until her baptismal date. Just so we can really get her ready to be baptized.

Tuesday, was a busy day. We had an AWESOME zone meeting. The lessons and discussions were awesome and I learned a lot about how to better my mission experience and also about faith. The faith section was really cool. I have a lot to work on haha. But since when have I not had a lot to work on haha. After zone meeting we had a good zone lunch and played some games. After which me and my companion basically went tracting for 2 hours hahahah......... man oh man..... we actually got 2 return appointments with people so that’s awesome!! Tracting does work sometimes!! haha :D Later that evening we have been planning a Book of Mormon Jeopardy for our Book of Mormon class that has been falling apart.... the numbers are dwindling.... SO we are revamping it and to start it off we planned a Book of Mormon Jeopardy that was actually really fun!! we only had 4 members show up but they had a lot of fun and totally talked up the BoM class to other members. We are hoping for a bigger turn out this week!! We are pumped!

Wednesday we tracted for the first hour and a half of the day, got some peoples contact info, and another return appointment for later that week Yay! After trafcting we had lunch then it was off to food bank! Ahhhh good ol' food bank. Now Erik (one of the guys who works there, I have talked about him before) walked up to us and said he wanted to hang out with us on Saturday. Now Saturday was the ward Christmas party so we invited him out to that he said he wouldn’t be able to do anything in the evening so he asked what about noonish. Well we were doing a service at the golden gate bridge that time. We told him about it not thinking anything of it. But he said he wanted to come hahaha!!! So we told him sure!! He is such a cool guy!!! After food bank we were supposed to have a lesson with Celeste.... but she cancelled........... LAMEE....... so instead we went and did some less active finding and had a nice lesson with a less active coupled named the Bogels. They are super nice :D We shared the Light the world video and they loved it!! 

Thursday was Elder Magee's Birthday! So after careful planning I secretly put together a surprise birthday party for him. I got all the missionaries involved, and a couple of members came as well! So in the morning I made sure studies went a little longer than usual so that the other missionaries could go set up. So I stalled studies.... which didn’t make elder Magee to happy actually...... he was getting pretty angry....... I was just praying he would forgive me after I got him to the church hahaha. So after all was said and done I got the confirmation text from the sisters and we were off to the church so that I could "pick up my coat I left at the church" we went and I told him to check the relief society room. As soon as he opened the door everyone jumped out. It was such a good time. He really enjoyed it and thanked and forgave me for stalling hahaha. So we had a small party, played some games, ate some cake, made him open his gifts, and then we were off to go visit some people haha After a lot of no's and door slams it was time for dinner. We went to dinner at Tarun's house! (The Recent convert who is Indian) We went over with the district hahaha His wife invited all the missionaries to come over for dinner. IT WAS SOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!! There was so much food but it was all just so tasty! They found out it was elder Magee’s birthday and brought him a cake and gave him gifts too! That was awesome. It was an overall good day. I really hope elder Magee had a good day too. :D

Friday was weekly planning day! We started off the day with our missionary council, ward list, meeting, thing..... I still don’t have a name for it yet hahah. After which we as a district baked cookies and went and caroled at an old folk’s home :D The prompt for Light the world was Jesus visited the lonely and so can you. So we were fulfilling the prompt. :D so we went and did some service then planned the rest of the day. After planning though we had another lesson with Celeste. SUCH A GOOD LESSON. The spirit was there!! She understood it! She asked questions!!! She just has that desire to be baptized! We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and she just ate it up. We invited her to come to the ward Christmas party which was on Saturday and to attend church this Sunday. (Now her attending church this Sunday was a must SHE NEEDED to come to church so she could be baptized the following week!)

Saturday was a long and stressful day we went to the Golden gate bridge to do service in the morning.... IT WAS RAINING SOOOO HARD.... hahahah we got there and the heavens opened up and it just dumped. They called us right as we drove up and asked us if we were still coming. We told them we were here and they said if you guys still want to come serve we have rain gear for you to wear. We told them sure! Why not! The district all put on the rain gear and did some service in the rain hahah! It was so much fun!! Even though the rain gear really didn’t help we still had a ton of fun!! Erik even came and served in the rain!!! I’m still trying to figure out a way to start teaching him man. I think I’m just going to ask him straight up if he wants to learn more. it sucks he doesn’t live in our area though..... I need to get into contact with the missionaries over where he lives..... ANYWAY after the service we went to In and Out Burger because Hermana Soba (who is from Uruguay) had never been. After lunch we helped out some more members and went less active finding..... no success unfortunately but we aren’t going to give up hahah. The Christmas party was at 5 :D it was so much fun. The food was awesome. The primary program nativity thing was just adorable. hahaha  One of the kids who wasn’t quite old enough to be in primary ran up while they were singing the last song. The microphone was on the ground so he ran up and picked it up and just started playing with it. OF course the parents ran over and told him to put it down. So he did just that. He dropped the mic onto the stage and ran off. THE BEST PART THOUGH. The last song had just ended and that’s when he dropped the mic. Haha it was so funny. Our nativity scene ended with a mic drop hahaha ;) so funny. We got transfer docs right after the Christmas party...... yikes.... still scared hahaha..

Sunday wasn’t too eventful. Just Church and the rest of the day was going around to members and letting Magee say good bye aha.

Anyway! that’s my week!! I hope you all had a wonderful week as well!! Know that I love you and I miss you all....... Please pray for my greenie.... he is going to needed it hahahaha

Until next week!

-Elder Riley Field

Birthday boy

 Service in the rain

Light the world, Chalk the block ;)

Feed The Hungry

*Taken from Elder Matthew Pederson's Facebook post:

Meet Daisy Herrera. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The others in this photo are Elder Collin Magee, Elder Riley Field, and Elder Ian Myers with me behind the camera.
Us missionaries have a name tag saying that we're disciples of Christ, but did you know that Daisy is one too?
Each week, all the full-time missionaries from the San Rafael area come to the Marin County Food Bank to feed the hungry. Today is "Jesus Fed the Hungry and So Can You" for #25Days25Ways.
We can literally feed the hungry by serving at food banks, but we can also feed others through our faith in Christ, much like Daisy!

We would love to see you there as well as hear your favorite scripture in the comments!

#MembersofSanRaf #Lighttheworld

Elder Field Is Dreaming of a White Christmas, Emphasis on "Dreaming"

Friends, Family, Countrymen, lend me your emails, and let me spin a tale about this week and the craziness there of.

Hey guys! So this week was a week of service :D Holy cow we did a lot of service...... or what we thought was a lot of service. We did a total of 12.5 hours of service. Now that does sound like a lot of service but back in Vallejo we did 15+ hours of service haha. It was awesome! But here in San Rafael it’s hard to find some good service opportunities. But we did some good stuff none the less :D

Last P-Day we went to Kirby Cove which is a beach right next to the golden gate bridge which was pretty stinking awesome :D I have some pictures of that. After all the p-day festivities and just hanging out with the district we had an awesome lesson/dinner with a recent convert and his non-member family :D IT WAS SO GOOD. 1. It was such a fancy dinner that I felt too poor to even look at the meal, or even be in their house for that matter. 2. It was so awkward at first because they were all so hesitant on how we would like interact with them hahah. Finally, after we started eating and the conversation got going, it was interesting to watch them all relax. 3. Broccoli was one of the sides...... I had to take it...... Now for those who know me you know I do NOT like Broccoli. And it’s not because I haven’t had it before. Just for some reason I have never liked it. Not in soup, not raw, no steamed, not cooked into things, I just don’t like it hahaha. So here I was sitting staring at this small heap of broccoli on my plate, either I leave it on the plate and possibly offend this non-member family we could potentially teach or just suck it up and eat it. So after a lot of internal prayer, I ate it. IT’S A FREAKING CHRISTMAS MIRACLE GUYS BECAUSE GUESS WHAT??????? ELDER FIELD LIKE BROCCOLI NOW?!?!?! I don’t know what happened but as soon as I tasted it apparently I really liked it. My companion was looking at me like I was an alien hahah he knows I don’t like it but I ate 2 helpings of it hahaha. I have noticed me liking different foods on the mission haha. Asparagus for example. Holy cow I freaking love that stuff hahaha. Anyway that’s enough of that hahaha The dinner was awesome and we were able to leave them with the message of #LightTheWorld and they really liked it :D and invited us over again sometime in the near future :D

Tuesday was cool :D, we went and had an awesome district meeting after which we went and Chalked 4th street for #LightTheWorld. We had people who were passing by write in chalk what they would do to serve someone this Christmas season. This one lady wrote something extremely profound.  I’m going to send a picture of it because it’s really good hahah. It was awesome. We had 1 guy harass us but that’s normal haha. We talked to a lot of people and were able to get a bunch of people to actually stop and chalk something :D pretty cool hahah :D

Wednesday was a pretty normal day. Got to go to good ol' Food bank and stuffs which is always a delight. We unfortunately weren’t able to teach anyone that day..... all of our appointments fell through...... It’s starting to happen again hahaha appointments are dropping like flies haha. But there is always that good tracting we can do. Speaking of tracting, we have approximately 11 hours of it planned for next week. Spread out through the week of course but it’s still a llllooooottt of tracting haha. Hopefully we can find some lessons to replace some of it ;)

Thursday was the *Announcer voice* THE WOOORRRLD WIIIDDDEE DAY OF SERVICE SERVice SErvice Service servi... ser.... That was an echo if you couldn’t tell ;) So the companion and I went and helped out a member in the morning which was fun. Then the district we all went to another day of food bank in the neighboring city. The same people run it so when we showed up they were ecstatic haha. I love the food bank people so nice. There is this one we are super tight with. His name is Eric. I think I have mentioned him before. We bonded over the fact we both liked the Wombats (a band) We have a very similar taste in music. But the more and more I talk with him I just get a good vibe. He needs to be taught ya know? hahah We have had awesome talks about religion in the past I just don’t know how to present the idea of setting up a time and teaching him more about our church. I think I just need to man up and ask him straight up. I might have to do it after transfers because this is a topic of contention between me and the companion unfortunately. He is worried we might screw up our relationship with Eric if we bring it up and teach him. He wants to just have it casually come up instead of just asking him. Idk. I’m open to ideas. Maybe this will work? I’m down to try anything. All I care about is that he gets to hear the good news of the gospel. :D I think he would really like it. After food bank we didn’t have a dinner that night so I lit a candle and had a nice box of mac 'n' cheese hahaha :D After dinner they ward needed help with stuffing letters for the Ward Christmas Letter. I was so down to help because this will actually help us with our ward list efforts me and Magee and the sisters are trying to do. We are sending out these letters to gauge who still actually lives in the area. We requested return service if they don’t live there. So hopefully we get some good information :D 

Friday was an...... eventful day...... It was just like any other normal Friday. We did our weekly planning, we worked on the ward list some more. Then we had a dinner. One family wanted to feed the ENTIRE district. Now mind you that’s 10 missionaries. So we all went. 

We are about to enter a Mom heart attack area of the email. Don’t worry mother I’m okay. Don’t worry. Just read on. This is just a fair warning. 

We all got there and we were looking for parking, we found a nice parking spot so I got out of the car like a good missionary to help my companion reverse. Well he pulled into a drive way and was going to back up. There was a car coming, so I motioned for him not to go back. He started to go back. So I hit the car telling him to stop. So my companion decided he was going to be funny and let his foot of the brake. Now I was behind the car. NO I DIDN'T GET RUN OVER....... just my foot. The car came off the drive way now because the car is just low enough it scraps the back end when on inclines and stuff. Underneath the car on the back bumper has a bar for us to connect a bike rack to. Well that’s made of metal. So that came down on my foot. Luckily it bounced off my foot and went up enough for me to pull my foot out. BOY, OH BOY DID THAT HURT. hahaha So I really didn’t think much of it so we went to dinner. We took my shoe off to make sure everything was alright. It started to swell and it was hurting pretty bad. DON’T WORRY MOM I’M OKAY. After dinner we went back to the apartment and called the mission president’s wife. She told us to ice it until she could come down and see it the next day. She came the next morning and looked at it. It was swollen. I could put weight on it. I could still walk. I just had a minor limp. She was a nurse so after looking at it she said it was probably just a really bad bump. But if its still hurting in a week I should go into the doctor to get it checked out. But she is pretty positive that it’s just soft tissue damage. Whatever that means.... hahah. Nothing bad she says just like a really bad bruise/bump/goose egg haha :D It hasn’t stopped me from doing missionary work so all is well :D 

Just to make sure my mother knows and everyone who might be worried. I’M OKAY. I JUST HAVE A SORE FOOT. THAT’S ALL. Love you! ;)

Saturday we had a lesson with a less active member which went really well. After which we just went less active hunting hahah. Knocked on doors inviting members to the Christmas party next week. We showed the #LightTheWorld video to a bunch of people and just did that good finding. There was a baptism that night!!!! Do you guys remember Yvonne I talked about 3 weeks ago. She is the old polish women I got to teach in the zone leaders area while on exchanges? She got baptized on Saturday!!! It was so cool to see!!! I was so happy for her!! But yeah. That’s Saturday.

Sunday was a wonderful fast and testimony meeting. Heard some awesome testimonies and had some really awesome topics in Sunday school and what not :D It was just a super awesome day. AND THE CHRISTMAS DEVOTIONAL WAS FREAKING AWESOME!! If you guys didn’t get a chance to see it. Go watch it right now. The talks were amazing and the music was even more amazing. Just go watch it right now hahahaha. :D President Eyring is the last speaker. and his talk was just fantastic. The one topic that caught my attention through the entire devotional was that without Easter, Christmas would be nothing. Easter, Christ died and was risen on the third day. Without that sacrifice, Jesus just would have been another baby born. But because of the blood atoning sacrifice made Christmas has such an amazing meaning. I didn’t word it as amazing as some of the speakers did so all of you should just go watch or listen to the devotional :D

But yeah that was my week. Full of awesome happenings. Other than the foot haha :D Guys I really love it out here. Like a lot. Even though it’s one of the toughest things I have ever done. I love it. Every minute is a new adventure. I find myself looking at people and thinking. "I wonder what their story is" The gospel can help anyone and everyone. People just need to slow down and listen. As we enter this Christmas season. It is my Christmas wish for everyone just to take a second to just study/think/ponder/read/sing of Christ. Let us all slow down and remember why Christmas is so important. Why we really celebrate it. It is the birth of our lord and savior. In the most of humble circumstances did he come into the world. And yet he did what no man could. He made it possible to return to our father in heaven who is so desperately wanting us to succeed. The spirit of Christmas can do a lot. Every time I think about the spirit of Christmas I think of an instance where the spirit of Christmas stopped a war for a single day in 1914, in Flanders Field Belgium. It was dubbed the Christmas Truce. I don’t want to tell you guys about it because if i did it would make this email way too long hahah it already is long enough. so if you get the chance go look it up. 

Anyway I love you all so much! I hope all of you have amazing weeks! It’s so good to hear from all of you!!! 

Until next week!!

-Elder Riley Field

p.s. I HIT MY 6 MONTH MARK THIS WEEK!!! Weird...... hahah;)