Happy Birthday, Stacy!

GOOD MORNING! And Happy Birthday to Stacy!


Around here it got pretty cold earlier on in the week. On Tuesday we started off in Evanston, and there were strong winds and it with the wind chill it was around -30 degrees. So we started exchanges and my companion stayed there, I went back to Coalville. It wasn't as bad here. While we were driving it was around 0 degrees. Then we went up to Evanston the next day to end exchanges and the car said it was -18 degrees. So it's been a lot of fun. While we were making our visits on Tuesday, we'd heat the car up right before we got out, ran from the car to the door, then ran back to the car. It was freezing. Monday night, we were able to put those two girls, Maddie and Chloe, on date for baptism and confirmation for the 19th. We were talking to them and committed them to be baptized and they said alright. They said they were nervous/scared about it. So I told them to pray and ask God if it's what he wants them to do and Maddie, the older one, said "I already know the answer." It was amazing. It's actually her birthday today. She's the same age as Stacy. So right now we have 4 people preparing to be baptized and confirmed. All of them are solid and prepared. We have a goal for 5 during this month. We were in a council and theygave us the assignment to give a training to all the leaders of the mission on helping people get married. So we've been preparing that a little bit. We'll be giving it either tomorrow or Wednesday. It'll be good. Our zone is doing great compared to the other zones in the mission. All the zones in the valley (6 of them) all have three districts and around 24 missionaries, we have two districts and there are 16 of us. For the amount of people on date to be baptized and confirmed we have the third most right now. So we're pushing forward. We have over 30 people. I love this work.

Friday night there was a big rivalry game here in town between North Summit and South Summit. North Summit is in Coalville, and South Summit is somewhere in the south mission. So we don't like South Summit because they're in the south mission. But we made plans and they all fell through. So we went out to visit some of the members. But nobody was home. Everybody was at the basketball game. So we called up President Winn and got his permission to go to the game, because we wanted to get some referrals. So we went and talked to the people working the concession stands, and then caught people leaving the game when it was over. It turned out to be pretty productive. Everyone was excited to see us and it got our faces out in the community. We were also able to receive 5 or 6 referrals and set up dinner and correlate with a ward mission leader. All in about 30 minutes. It was great. Well that's about all I can think about going on right now. I just love being in this work and being able to see the changes in the lives of those we're teaching. There's no greater thing to do than proclaim the gospel. As I've been out here my love and understanding for the gospel has gone way up. And I know as y'all continue to study the scriptures, individually and as a family, your love and understanding of it will increase as well.