MERRY CHRISTMASSSS!!

It looks like y'all got my Christmas gift! I've been hearing that it's snowed/ been snowing in Houston. Unfortunately, that's probably the only gift I'll be able to send. The only place we go shopping is Wal-mart so it's kind of hard to find good cultural gifts I could send y'all. But I was reading a talk by Elder Holland and he said that Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Christ, and the Wise men didn't show up until after the birth. So giving gifts on Christmas day isn't that important, but y'all will get them during the year.
So did y'all watch the Christmas Devotional? It was pretty good. It made me miss home too. It took me back to the days when y'all would make me go, but I wouldn't want too. What a bad kid. I bought the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas cd today at DI for $3. I'm excited to have some Christmas music to listen to.

I've been reading the "Discourses of Gordon B. Hinckley." Elder Pearl is getting ready to go home so he gave me both volumes. Because they take up a lot of space. But I read the talk where he got his letter from his dad saying "forget yourself and get to work." So that's what I'm trying to do. Yesterday we shoveled snow for 3 different people. It took like 2-3 hours. We ended up missing the dinner appointment. But it was worth it. Helped me warm up, AND got my mind off of home. When we got into the house last night after working I checked what the temperature was, and it was 8 degrees. But it didn't feel that cold. So thank you for praying for me and that I would be able to stay warm. It snowed so much here lately though. yesterday we got like a foot of snow. There was enough of it to go up to the bottom of my knee. Way too much.

Well the other day we were talking to some of our investigators and we invited them to be baptized. The didn't say "yes," but they did say that they had been talking about it that day. And they came to church the next day and everything. We're hoping to get them baptized on the 26th of December. So hopefully that will be able to be done.