Christmas

Joseph's letter from Dec 30

Hey Family,

                  This week has been good with Christmas and all. Also i'ts transfer week and it looks like neither Elder Oveson or me are getting transferred. Well on Monday we did our usual thing and played games all day till dinner. We had dinner at the Russell's. They are a less active family that is really cool. On Tuesday we had district meeting. The zone leaders came and were at our district meeting. It was all about working with members and ITMing (Inspire the members). After we went home and then to the Lotts. Sister Lott cut our hair and then they fed us dinner. (I told y'all some of this on Christmas) After dinner we went up to the Teeters and helped Sister Teeter put together some Christmas presents for her family. When Wednesday came around we woke up and opened our presents then we got ready for the day and went to the Walls. There we ate a big breakfast and talked with y'all. After I finished talking with y'all we played some games and hung out because Elder Morgan had to wait till 2 to talk to his family. Around 4 we went to the Anderson's for dinner and hung out there most of the night. On Thursday we went to see a bunch of people but most were busy with family or gone on vacation. We did get to talk to one of our investigators named Janette. She has been reading the Book of Mormon and has been enjoying it. We also called a guy named Noland that we got a referral for. We set up a time this upcoming Friday to go teach him. He seems really cool and has been to church out in Utah and really loved it. On Friday we drove out to Crawfordsville to see a less active named Mae Barton. She is cool and always says she will come to church but never does. That evening we went to the Oreys for dinner. It was lots of fun and me and Elder Morgan have been working on getting a ball of yarn untangled for them for the past month. We had found 8 ends and a big knot in the middle. On Saturday well, no one was home. It was kinda a sucky day. That evening we ate at the Orey's again. This time me and Elder Morgan got two of the ends to meet and untangled part of the yarn. We took it home with us to work on that night. By the next morning we had all but one string untangled. We felt accomplished. Church on Sunday was good, not much exciting happened out of the ordinary. The rest of that day we went around with Elder North and Elder Morgan to say good bye to some people. Then that evening we went to the Andersons for dinner.

 

That was about it for my week. Not too eventful but fun that Christmas was in the middle. I hope y'all have a great week and fun with work and in Elko. It was great to talk to you and I will do it again on Mothers Day. Have a great week.

Elder Talbert