Bring Boxing Day to the USA!

December 22nd was my magic day. I will tell you why (it's not as cool as you think it will be).
I'm 22 years old on the 22nd and it was exactly my 2 month mark in my 2nd transfer. Cool huh?

But it wasn't that magic of a day because after lunch I had to use the toilet sooo bad, I thought I was going to die. So we're walking all the way to this appointment and I'm just chanting in my head "one more step!" We finally get there and guess whaaaaaat.

They cancelled.

I really thought I was going to die or my intestines were going to explode.
"What do I do? What do I do?!" So I asked a lady smoking outside her house if I could use her toilet and she let me! People are great.

We were also asked twice if we were nuns. #missionaryclothingswag

Christmas Eve was an adventure. We missed our train to Derriaghy. We were almost there, saw it in the station, ran to it and IT LEFT US. So, we tried by a less active who wasn't there and then caught the next train.

Guess who missed our stop?

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We may or may not have been pictures of ourselves.

We got off at Dunmurry and I had to use the toilet again so, we entered another random house. We walked back to the train station and saw the train we needed...just leaving... #winning. We just stayed and chapped in Dunmurry and fiiinally made the next train.

Christmas was great! We spent it at the Reid's house. They are so wonderful! They gave us control of the TV because we were allowed to watch G/PG movies on Christmas :) So we watched Frozen and Remember The Titans. SO GOOD. We also skyped home! It was so great to see my family and meet my niece Hattie! I miss you all!

The day after Christmas was Boxing Day. I think we should celebrate this in America! They do their "black Friday" shopping on this day. But us as missionaries got to relax a bit for 2 days! Although I'm pretty sure I gained like 20lbs because we trounced to meal appointment after meal appointment so close together and haaad to keep eating.

My New Years Resolution is to run.

Lezzz be real though. It's the same every year and do I do it? No.
We'll see.

What are everyone's goals? If you get a chance, take a look at Jeffery R. Hollands talk "The Best Is Yet To Be". It is one of my favorites and is perfect for the start of this new year. :)

Sister Skagen