Christmas!

Christmas was great! I was able to talk to the fam for a while and loved every minute of it! We had 3 meals that day. It was pretty tough, but we made it through all the food. :) Our first one was at a members house who had just got out of the hospital. It was really fun. The family is really nice and really enjoys having us over. After that, we went straight to the church to eat with the spanish Sisters and our Zone Leaders. That was pretty fun. Then we watched the new 'Night at the Museum' movie. I enjoyed it. I'd reccomend it if you haven't already seen it. Then we went right to another members house for some more food. We had eaten at there house the night before as well. The food was great and after we played Disney's Scene It. It was a lot of fun.

Now, before Christmas, on either Wednesday or Thursday, we went with the spanish sisters to an investigators house to eat. It is known as 'La Casa.' And apparently there is always something interesting that happens there. But when we went, it was just a fairly normal visit. Except that I couldn't understand most of the conversation as it was in spanish. But then they brought out the food. It looked kinda strange so we asked what it was. They said it was beef. Then they added a spanish word, which being translated means tounge... So we were able to eat cow tounge the other day. Not too bad if mixed with rice and put on a tortilla. But it does have a pretty strange texture. But all in all, it wasn't too bad. I'd eat it again as long it was cooked well.

Yesterday, at church, a guy named Bryan Levi came for the first time to see what it was like. He has been talking with missionaries in Salt Lake for a while. He said the he grew up in a baptist home and only heard bad things about the church, but has seen members and they always seem to be happy. So he diecided to come and check it out for himself. We gave him a church tour before church and he liked it. Then in our gospel principles class they taught the plan of salvation. Which he really liked and said it answered a lot of his questions. Then in priesthood there wasn't really a lesson planned so we just talked. It ended up being him asking us questions and everyone answering the best they could. It was really cool and the Spirit was really strong. He said he really enjoyed it and looked forward to our next meeting. We set up a lesson with him then he left.

Then later that day, he gives us a call and said that he is not ready for this big of a life change right now and for us not to come by or to call him again. We were extremely bummed after this. We aren't sure what happened. But we are praying for him and asking the Lord to try to help him remember what he felt at church and all the things he said.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Y'all!

This going to be a short one. Just letting everyone know I am getting transfered tomorrow up to Haines City. And I will be serving with Elder Watson. I am really excited. Christmas is going to be awesome and I am way stoked to talk to the fam!

Baptism!

Sorry about last week. We weren't able to get to the library at all. It was a pretty interesting week. We were on exchanges for a good portion.

But last week we did have the baptism of Debbie. It was really good. There were a lot of people there. I was really impressed. There were almost more people there then usually at church. It was great. We are planning on teaching her a bit more, but she was sick all of last week, so we are still working on that.

We had our Christmas Zone Conference this past Tuesday. I really enjoyed it. A lot of my mission friends were there and it was great to see them. Quite a few of them will be the last time until I get home because they are going to be headed home after this transfer. But it was a great conference.

Yesterday for p-day, we went to the stake presidents house. He used to work for UPS and was really high up in the company. So his house is huge! But they had the whole zone over and fed us really good food. They have a pool table, ping pong table, air hockey, darts, and even a poker table. We had a lot of fun. And we were able to get on his yacht and look around. Couldn't go for a ride, but that's fine.

This is the view from his backyard. Pretty awesome!

Transfers are coming up next week. Right before Christmas. I am expecting to be gone. But I am fine with that. We find out on Saturday what is happening for sure. Should be interesting.

Thanksgiving!

So this week was pretty good. We were able to teach Debbie a few times. She is still ready to be baptized on the 5th. We are excited for that. We taught her yesterday morning and set up her baptismal program. She seems pretty excited for it.

We were able to talk to Sarah on Sunday a little. We had a branch social after church and she wanted to sit next to us. It was fun. Kids are always interesting. We have her reading the kids Book of Mormon Stories book and she is also reading the Book of Mormon. And she is enjoying it. But things are going to be a little slow still, as we can only see her on Sundays.

This Thanksgiving was probably one of my favorites. We were invited down to a member in North Port. That is the Sister's area. So we were with them all day. We had a lot of fun. We had 1 lunch and visited a few different members. We even had a fire at one. That was cool. We were able to watch the new Ice Age movie. And also we watched a movie called Taken. That was a really good one. I would reccomend that if you haven't seen it yet. But we had a tomn of fun all day. It was great. And, of course, we were able to watch a little football. Good times!

Adn that is about all that I've got for this week.