MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Everything here is going great. It's a little cold but it's all good. The new area is going great. Here's a little more information about the area. We cover a few small towns. We cover Wanship, Hoyetsville, Coalville, and Henafer along with a few other smaller ones. The people here are amazing. The members are great and help us out in the work. We haven't had to go tracting yet we just work off of referals. We're having a baptism on Saturday at 6 at night. It's for a guy named Jim Willoughby. He's so solid. He and his wife are already excited about entering into the temple in a year. It's pretty sweet. Then we have 4 more people on date for January. The Tedikas who are a young couple with 2 kids. He grew up in the church but never got baptized and the girlfriend grew up in a baptist church I believe. But they're going to get baptized on the 15th and get married on that date or before. They're still deciding on that. Then there is a girl named Katelyn that we're working with. She's 13 and her mom was inactive but is coming back to the church and she's supposed to get baptized on the 1st of next year. We're also working with some Peruvians. They're not on date yet, but I think they'll get baptized in January. It's great. We get to teach in english and spanish. They don't have a spanish branch out here so we have to translate the sacrament meetings into spanish. So good things are happening and we're just trying to keep the work going forward. It's a good time. Monday I did 24's with the missionaries in Green River. So I went all the way out there for a day. It's like a 2 hour drive from where we live. It's a lot different working here than in the valley. Everything is a lot more spread out. It takes a lot more time to get from place to place. I'm kind of tired of being in the car so much. Tomorrow we're going down to Salt Lake to pick up some Christmas packages that the office has been holding so that people don't open them up before Christmas. So we're driving down tomorrow and then delivering them on Friday. It's going to take around 5 hours to deliver them all and get back to our area. It's going to be fun.

Well as far as Christmas goes, the stake president invited us over to his house for breakfast around 10:00 in the morning. I don't know how long we'll be there for. And then, we have the baptism at 6 at night. And we'll have to fill the font up from around 2 until 6. Well that's about all I got for y'all right now. Have a great rest of the week!

Transferred to...Coalville, Utah

Well just to update y'all a little bit of what's been going on this past week... On Sunday at church Yadira came to the english ward again. I translated the whole sacrament meeting for her. It was a good ole time. Then our other investigators were progressing really fast and they should have a few baptisms coming up. As for me, Like I told y'all last week, we had transfers. And I got transferred out of the area. My new area is................. Coalville, Utah. I'm now serving in the Wyoming zone. It should be interesting. A lot different than serving in the Salt Lake Valley. We cover 1 stake, but we cover english and spanish. So it should be fun. My new companion is Elder Salisbury, he's from Cincinnati. It sounds like we have a lot of work going on in this area. Hopefully we can get double digit baptisms this transfer. And from what I've heard the members are amazing. They are all about missionary work and they love us. The stake I'm in used to be shared with another stake, but now we're there all the time. They used to only see missionaries once or twice a year, but now that they see us more they're more excited about the work. So it should be a good transfer! Right now the mission is doing pretty good. We're sitting at a little over 2200 baptisms and our goal is 2500 so we'll see how we do on that. It's definitely possible. Oh and on Monday I went to get some surgery done on some ingrown toenails. It went pretty well, and the doctor didn't charge me anything for it so that was good. Well I don't really have too much more time because we've been dealing with transfers all day and haven't got back until around 5. Well I can't really tell you about any of the investigators, because I haven't met them. But I'll have more about the work for you next week.

Testimonies of Christ

Well Everything here is going well. It's only been a few days since I've e-mailed home so there's not too much to update y'all on. Our investigators are progressing pretty well. One that we have, Yadira, went to church on Sunday with 2 of her 6 kids. Her husband is in jail, and she has a 4th grade education. And she doesn't work. So it's a pretty bad situation. But she went to church to an english ward and my companion and I translated for her during the whole sacrament meeting. So it was a pretty fun experience. While it was going on I got up and bore my testimony in spanish. Which I thought might make some people mad because it's an english ward and some english members do NOT like to hear spanish. But afterwards there were 2 or 3 people that got up and said that they had a grandson or someone else serving in spanish and it let them get a glimpse into their lives. Then the man sitting in the pew behind us got up and bore his testimony. He said that he had been listening to us translate the whole sacrament meeting and that he wished he could speak spanish to say something to her. It was a good meeting. The Spirit was strong and for the first time in a long time the testimonies were about Christ/gospel related topics and not about stories from the week and how they don't have a job.


Oh today while I was leaving the temple I saw President Fronk and Stephanie. I talked to them for a few minutes. So that was pretty good. Well I got to get going.