New Mission President Announcement

Sorry for the confusion, but transfer calls don't come in until next Sunday. Sorry to kill the excitement. 

We had a mission wide conference call this week to discuss the new mission president (it was really weird to hear the web-ex music I am used to from dad's conference calls again). We will talk more about it during Zone Conferences in February. 

Heavenly Father Will Provide a Way

We did have a great New Years. Unfortunately we barely made a dent in uploading information to the iPads.  I spent 2 hours just on one person’s teaching record. It all worked out though. Last week we did have pizza 4 days in a row. It was hilarious....and I never want another piece of pizza again! Okay, well thank you so much for all your help with the keyboard. I am sure he will love it. [Michael had us send Elder Geisler a Bluetooth keyboard as a late Christmas present.] 

Post Christmas

I loved getting to Skype to you too. I don't know what you mean about being deep into my mission, but as long as that’s a good thing then great! Yea, opening presents that night was awesome, it turned out well. Thank you so much for everything. I loved the journal thing!!  That is so cool! Thank you for that, and if you get a chance, please tell everyone who took the time to write in it that I really appreciate it!! It made my week! I felt like getting off was 100 times easier this time than it was in May. Thanks for all the support and making it easy. The members would ask us how long we talked with our parents for and were shocked to hear that we only talked for 40 minutes. I think most people don't know that is the rule. But it was nice to immediately go to work, because then we didn't have time to get distracted. I am really glad we didn't have the day off. We went out and delivered all of those cookies, but I think for every dozen we gave out, someone gave us 2 dozen! We are so fat!!

Christmas came early

Dear Family,

I got the Christmas package this morning. We are very excited for Christmas. Last night we found out that because we have a goal of doubling our convert baptisms this next year, Christmas will be a full Proselyting day. So we are fasting today to know who we should see! 

Dress for success

[Last week we received a package from Michael.  Just seeing it under the tree helps us feel closer to him during this time of year.]  Haha it is a stupid present, but I thought it was kind of cool. There are some...random things in there as well, that I found here and thought were kind of interesting. Anyways don't get your hopes up too much! Yes, the members we live with (The Nordstroms), said we could Skype from their computers. They said that the afternoon would be best, does that work? If not we can use the Paris' computer. 

  

Let it Snow

This week was crazy. First off, before I forget. There is a sister here in the district, Sister Curtis. She is from Springville. I don't know why it took me 2 transfers, but I finally realized why I knew that name. She is the younger sister of Brandon Curtis, the kid who died on the Springville football team. That was cool to talk to her about. She was pretty cool with it. Anyways, just thought that was interesting.

Transfers leave me here with Elder Geisler for one more transfer. But I am not DL anymore. It is back to the Elder who was DL 2 transfers ago, so it looks like we are just trading off. Kind of confusing, but its all good. 

10 Month Mark

I can't believe it is already 10 months! These past couple weeks have flown by for me! It feels like we go out to work in the morning and then before I know it we are saying prayers before bed! Sometimes I miss a day in my journal and I go back to catch up and I am like 4 or 5 days behind. It is crazy. Luckily I usually have time to catch up in it.