December 6, 2010

Wow,I think this is the first week that dads letter was longer than yours. How was your week mom? My week was good, nothing too exciting happened. We are looking for new people to teach, this last week we were finally able to find some, so that was really good. We did our fast and then on Sunday we have fish...yuck! But things are going good here, we had an investigator go to church, Gina, for the first time. She is a great person, I really hope she gets baptized.

I am really excited to talk to you all this Christmas, not gonna lie. I'm gonna have to figure out what day and time and let you know this next week probably.

We are hoping to have 2 baptisms the 18th, a couple that has been married for 50 years! They are great, like children. But they love going to church. The only challenge is that he smokes, and has been smoking his whole life. But he is already down to smoking only 1 a day, and this week he needs to be completely clean.

Yea, it was fun for Elder Nielson to baptize her, although he almost hit her head on the wall because she is really tall and didn't leave sufficent space. But it all worked out well. No, we never had the turkey dinner...but thats ok, next year ;) The pumpkin pie turned out well (I didn't help him).

Service is good :) I've really come to love serving others here on the mish. Remember that when we are in the service of our fellow beings we are in the service of the Lord (mosiah 4?) But I have really come to like this scripture, D&C 123:17 I think. its a good one.

But I hope that you all have a great week!

I'm always praying for you.

Love,

Elder DeLong