Half-way Mark!

Downhill?? I don't know about that! But it is exciting to see that I have made a dent in the time out here. So far I am pretty satisfied with how things have gone so far. At first I thought that I would be disappointed with only having 3 baptisms so far, but I feel like I have done what I was supposed to and worked hard. Plus it is hard not to be satisfied with the fact that I was able to keep up with Coburn for the first 4 months. 

Well unlike some baptisms before, Elder Geisler and I were able to plan this one out pretty far, and so this week hopefully won't be too stressful. We are done teaching him, the interview is scheduled, and the program is taken care of. 

We weren't able to see the family this week, they weren't home. So hopefully we can see them next week. We did find a new investigator this week, so we will see how that land out in the coming weeks. 

Yea we were at the Paris' this morning for haircuts. They are pretty great. 

The fast was good. We are going to be watching the skies and getting ready for a flood! I saw that you reported Elder Dimick's post. Speaking of which, from what I read in the journal I got for Christmas, your brother Jon works with One of Elder Dimick's relatives (father?). 

As a companionship, our mission president told us all that we need to talk to at least 20 people each day about the gospel, outside of lessons. At first I thought this would be easy, because in Chico, we could talk to 20 people without trying. Well it turns out it is really hard! And the ward members know about this so some of them have been getting on us about needing to talk to 20 people. So on Saturday, Elder Geisler and I decided we would start tracting and we wouldn't stop until we had talked to 20 people...well just over 4 hours later we hit out goal. No one was interested, but we were obedient. I really learned how each area is different, and how important it is to take each chance to share the gospel when it comes, because you don't know when you will get another one.

Well I look forward to next year; maybe the Broncos will do it then. 

I hope you get good news from BYU! I am excited to hear about it! Let me know of anything exciting that happens there! Thank you for everything! 

Michael