Merry Early Christmas

For starters... sweet scripture. Everyone Check out Zacharias 5:1-2. it's at the end of the Old Testament.

This week has been amazing! For starters, about 14 missionaries went Christmas Caroling... which ended up as a big snowball fight (my first) it was so fun. And we knocked on one guy's apartment door. He didn't open the door but told us to leave. sS we started singing really loudly. The guy was constantly yelling at us through the door to shut up and go away.  It was pretty funny.  We forced some Christmas spirit into him.

Then I made my first snowman. All by myself. Fairbanks wouldn't help me, but i made it. It's huge. He was pretty good. Taller than me.  I wasn't able to make the picture cd last week[which is how we will move pictures back and forth after the memory card fiasco], but I have my camera and will make it next week.  The thing wasn't working to make the cd today.

So awesome story this week: Fairbanks and I stopped by the first person I baptized. His name is Garrett and he's a stud. He's 11 and already talking about serving his mission. He's the biggest impact I've made in Utah by far. I love the kid. but we hadn't finished our new member lessons.  So we stopped by to set up the appointment for the last lesson.  This should of taken place 6 weeks ago. But the spirit had other plans for us.

We stopped by Friday and Garrett's aunt, Jen, was there. She just moved in with them. She has a 10 year old daughter in Texas who has recently been baptized and was glad to meet us. She wanted to take the lessons to learn a little about what her daughter, sister, and nephew believe. I know that it was only because we stopped by at that time much later that we were able to set up a lesson with her.

We had our first lesson on Saturday. The spirit was really strong and she was crying. She read 3Ne 11, which we gave her Friday to read, and loved it. After the lesson she asked for a blessing because there might be cancer in her kidneys. We gave it to her and that only brought the spirit in stronger.  We saw her at church the next day and, while walking into Sacrament meeting (which is last) she told us all she wanted to be baptized... and was thinking next week. I know that when we work hard for missionary work, the Lord puts people that are prepared in our path to teach. This is what happened.

On a sad note, I want everyone to pray for Morgan Grebe, who has 32 blood clots. I know that through faith and prayer she'll overcome this adversity. Pray for her and her family. Also, pray for Jen.

For Christmas, I want letters and picture from everyone. Anyone getting this email. I'm reminded with a scripture, Alma 60:5-6 "... Yea, Great has been your neglect toward us. And now behold, we desire to know the cause of this exceedingly great neglect; yea, we desire to know the cause of your thoughtless state."

Just kidding... but not really. :P


Don't forget to pray for Morgan and Jen.

Elder Pearson