A Most Wonderful Time of the Week

Christmas
We are having dinner with the Waddells and going to be at the Escabars to do the calls. Later this week we are going christmas caroling later this week with the Hairs. That is cool that you guys walked around temple square and saw the lights. that is good to hear that Grandpa Wirthlin is doing a lot better.

Baptism

We Had a Leroy Kettler's baptism on Saturday it was really good and the spirit was strong, he is the first one to join the church in his family and we are going to teach his two kids and eventually his wife who is from Thailand. She does not want to join the church because she is afraid that she has to give up her culture. She is slowly getting there.

Progress with Investigator

we were over to Kameron Mulkey one of our investigators, the cop. We saw his mom there and we said hi and she wdas really excited and wanted to talk to us and told us that Kameron gave the pamphlets and the gospel principles book and she said as I was reading over these things. It was all the things that I have been taught by my mother and it has answered all my questions that no precher could answer. she said I think I know were I am going to start to go to church. she is a baptist but she is lives in baytown so other missionaries will be teaching her.

Service

We did service at a members house and did a deep deep deep clean. They were gone for thanksgiving and when they came back they found out that some guys had broken into their house plus 6 other houses on that street. and took there Televisions, computers and jewelry. they dumped everything out of the cupboards and cabinets. you hardly could step anywhere it was so bad. after a few hours it was looking a lot better

Conference

On wednesday we had our Christmas Conference. The theme was on Faith it was so good. the spririt was so strong that I have not felt it so much like ever before. we got to watch the 17 miracles. that is an amazing, most wonderful movie. I loved it and seeing the faith of those pioneers it was so amazing how much faith they had and how much they sacrificed for this gospel.

TRANSFERRED!!!

New Area and New Companion

I am in Dayton right
know. My new address is

My new companion is Elder Judkins he is from Rexburg, ID. He is really
cool nice companion. I think he has been out for 18 months. He went to
BYU Idaho two semesters before I started to go there. His dad is a
profressor there and teaches a bunch of computer classes and a
communication class, which he took it from him and he said it was
really good.He wants to be a eye doctor, Know it is getting really
cold it is getting in the 30's and forty's. That would be great if you
could send my BYUI sweats along with the other stuff.

Pulled-over Investigator

I got into my area like around
four a clock. We taught this really cool family the Mulkey's the
husband is a police officer and the wife is a nurse. He told us how he
got contacted with the missionaries. He was driving around in his cop
car and was having a bad day and he was praying and wanted to change,
then he saw two missionaries Elder Hunt and my MTC companion Elder
Shelton, He pulled them over and they thought they were in trouble but
he wanted to learn more about God and get his life straightened up so
Elder Hunt gave him a Book of Mormon and he started to reading it and
right then he knew the book was true, the missionaries tried to get in
contact with him but couldn't, then he was like oh well but then he
found out that his captain was a member of the church. he know always
goes in his office and talks with him. the missionaries finally got
contacted back with him, we set a baptismal date for January 8, they
accepted. we are taking them on a church tour and hopefully to church.
Then we helped a member move some furniture and they were pretty cool.

Christmas Party and Lois Update
Oh yeah our ward had a christmas party on Saturday, they acted out the
christmas carol, they did a really great job, it was so much fun. Lois
Stine one of our recent converts got married on Friday to Todd Daniels
a member that is coming back to church. They are so cool, I love them.
Todd got a job in North Dokato, and he says the environment is not
good. they party, and drink. But he has told us some stories how he
has shared his testimony with some people on how it is changing
peoples lives completely around. He gets really excited about the
gospel and especially sharing it to everyone that he meets.