12/12/2011

This week has been a little hectic, with Elder P  leaving, and
Elder H  coming in. He's a lot of fun, it's a little weird
serving with someone who has actually served elsewhere. I got your
package a couple days ago, Saturday I think. Thanks! I'm excited to
start opening them. So yeah, just the two of us. Kirtland was
awesome. How did you know we were going? I didn't even really. Some
members in the branch took us, H, T, and another sister up.
Sadly we got there after dark and weren't able to take the tour. We
did watch the Kirtland movie, and that's when it hit H  and T
that they were right where the Prophet Joseph Smith lived. After the
movie they weren't as interested in the nativities anymore. They
still had fun though, and H  was able to talk to the sister
missionaries about serving.


The branch Christmas party was this week, it was a lot of fun. We had
quite a few people show up who we haven't seen for a while. Each
auxiliary did a skit or sang. The young men pulled the young mens
president around in a wheelchair. He was dressed up as Santa and they
were all tied up like reindeer. Think Dad would do that? Maybe not.

 
So I am now serving with Elder H, he's from Sacramento,
California. He is my first companion to be taller than me. He's
great, we work together well, you would be proud of all the cleaning
we did today, we could easily fill a dumpster with the junk.

The work has been going well, we have been teaching a family of
Messianic Jews. It's really interesting because they have all the
roots, and I've learned a few words in Hebrew. He has a prayer
covering thing and cap, not the kind like most orthodox Jews. They
are very nice and we've been able to meet a few times.

It has finally cooled off a bit, it was 17 when when were headed to
church. Today was close to 50 though.
There are great things coming, we are trying to focus more now on
> building up the branch members themselves, that is where we are really
> struggling. Hopefully we will have some baptisms at the end of the
> month guess we'll see.