Merry Christmas!!!!!!! 
AHHHH!!! I love this time of year so much!!!!! It is such a great time to be a missionary!!!! So neat :)
The past few weeks have been super super crazy! We have been just swamped with things to do. I love it! However, there is no way I am going to be able to put it all into an email haha
Elder Pratt and I have been putting a lot more focus and effort into helping the zone this week. Since I got here, I have felt a super weird vibe in the zone. It feels kind of cold between all the missionaries here. There’s a sort of disconnect between everyone. It’s really weird! No body really trusts each other. There is a lot of judgment and lack of trust. So, Elder Pratt and I have been trying to think of ways to help the missionaries be filled with Charity for each other in hopes to unify the zone and stop the weird judgement stuff haha. We brain-stormed for a little bit and came up with an idea that is already making a HUGE difference! As you should all know, #LightTheWorld is up a running :) Elder Pratt and I have made a little spin off of it for our zone called #LightTheZone! Each day of December we have a little activity for the missionaries in our zone to do in order to low-key help them develop charity. Today was “take crazy selfies with each companionship in your district. Best picture wins!” A couple days ago was, “play rock, paper, scissors with each missionary you run into today”. We have also had, “fist-bump everyone today” and “today, write a letter for your district leader or someone who needs their day brightened a little”. We’ve only been doing it for 4 days now, but it has completely changed the feeling of this Zone 100%!!! God is so good! :) I can feel a difference in the way the missionaries here feel about missionary work now :) I love Christmas!!!
Fun stories for the week: So, we were dropping off a Bible to a very kind woman in a very crusty apartment building. We were in the middle of teacher her the Restoration of the gospel when, all of a sudden, a fire truck comes speeding up to the building, lights flashing and siren wailing! An entire team of firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics come rushing into the building! One of them asked me if I had called them and I said nope. So they all ran upstairs as fast as they could! After a few minutes, they casually came walking down the stairs and waved goodbye to me hahaha. False alarm, I guess!
Next story! So, we were doing another Bible drop off to a man named Edward. Edward is a very interesting individual hahaha. He says he is a retired Catholic Priest who served in the Vietnam war. He is very short, smokes, and has 3 really nasty looking dogs. Anyway, we went to his house to give him a Bible which he requested, and he invited us in! Apartments here are super super tiny. He had stuff stacked floor to ceiling in his super small apartment (which was THICK with smoke) with 3 dogs. All three of us stood in his 4-4 foot kitchen while Edward took the reins on the conversation. He proceeds to talk about how we are polygamists and how we follow an earthly law. It was actually kind of funny haha. While he spoke, he lit cigarette after cigarette. At one point, while he was telling us a story, Edward grabbed Elder Pratt’s arm and proceeded to rub his face all over Elder Pratt’s shoulder!! I was dying! Elder Pratt looked like he was going to punch Edward in the face. I am glad he didn’t! Hahahaha we didn’t get to share all that much with Edward, but as we were leaving he said that our conversation with him was one of the best conversations he has had in a long time. He told us that we made his day and really lifted his spirits :) It makes me happy to be able to help brighten people’s days :)
Well, we have to get going to a lesson right now, so I am going to have to cut this off here.
I love you all!!!!! See how many smiles you can make this week :)
Elder Snell
Elder Pratt and I found this super Jewish neighborhood! They had a giant sculpture of a Dreidel! Fun stuff!
Christmas TREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!
District Selfie!
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