December 21, 2008

Merry Christmas! There wasn't a whole lot that went on last week and the highlights I'll be telling the family about on Christmas. But I'll tell you some of the things that happened. Elder Bartlett and I have been getting along great! Like I said in my last letter, we have the same kind of sarcastic humor. Also, he served in KC3 area as well and took the color test. He is a white-blue like me. He is a lot more white though. 

We have been working on finding more people to teach because it's pretty slow right now. We do have a few awesome investigators. One is named Donald Jones. He's a way cool guy. He wants to turn his life around and come back to God. He was praying for help to God and then, lo, and behold, I felt we needed to tract his street and we found him! He let us right in. He's reading the Book of Mormon. Another is Amber. When we were planning the night before we decided we needed to go tracting but we didn't know where. So I pulled out a map of Marshall, closed my eyes and pointed. I pointed to a circle of Government housing. We went there and found amber and also a former investigator that Elder Bartlett had been teaching but lost track of. Amber wants to learn about God so she can teach her kids right. She also let us right in. And she's reading the Book of Mormon. Our investigator Fidel is still doing well! He's more than halfway through the Bible. He reads every day and thinks about what he reads all day. He has changed so much since we started teaching him! He truly is going through a mighty change of heart! The stake president here in Warrensburg hears about him every week through weekly reporting of the missionaries. He eventually wants to have a spanish branch for this area but needs leadership. He already feels Fidel could be the Branch President for that! That's how awesome Fidel is! He's just an amazing guy!

Thursday was Zone Conference in Liberty, MO. So we slept at the missionaries' apartment in Odessa Wednesday night. It was a lot warmer than last time because the heater was working. Haha! Zone conference was good! It's always a great spiritual booster! At zone conference I saw my friend Heather's ex-boyfriend Cooper that was called to this mission. He is in my stake back home. I took a picture with him and I'm going to send it to Heather. Haha!

After Zone conference I went on exchanges with Elder Rico again in Marshall. His english is getting a lot better. I helped him some more with some principles of the english language. With Elder Rico we went to the Thompson's house for dinner. Because it was raining so hard we had to stay there until it was time to be in our apartment. We had tons of fun though! We made paper airplanes, played murder in the dark, and clue! haha! They are such an awesome family! 

Well, it's about time I finish this letter. Tell my family I love them!