This week

These past few days have been SWEET.

I'm not going to lie, I've been pretty frustrated with the lack of success we've had in the past. I didn't understand how the missionaries before us could spend all day every day at the gym and movie theater, and get 6 baptisms the last month, and Houghton and I have been working our tails off and didn't have anyone for January. But right when I was about to lose it, the success came.

We stopped by some members on Sunday, and one of their friends was over. We had an impromptu lesson and she told us she wants to be baptized! So we set a date for the 19th. Then we got a call about someone we've been teaching for a while. He's 11, and just waiting for his dad to get ready to baptize him. Apparently, the Dad and the Bishop had met and agreed to just let him get baptized now. So there is another one for the beginning of Feb! The next day, we went to a Family Home Evening with a family who invited their non-member friend. The friend told us she had talked to her mom and they decided she could get baptized! So we gotta get that set up. We can easily have 6 or 7 baptisms for February. I'm really excited.

Besides the area being awesome, not a lot has happened. I got a Christmas package this past week from home. It was an additional, surprise, package. I got a sweet Indiana Jones Fedora that I'm wearing around more and more. Not sure I'm allowed to, but it's my parents fault if I get yelled at. I also got a sweet Dallas Cowboys, Miles Austin Jersey. Still trying to figure when and how I can wear that.

Pics will come next week.