Good Afternoon Yalll!!!!
It's been a great week in Crawfordville, we have had lots of sweet things happening, to start out with something sad, I had one of my companions leave on Sunday. He was transferred to the next area east of us, so he is in our district still. A missionary went home early for Christmas so Elder Mudaliar was called to fill in. We had some fun times though. We had our Half Mission Christmas Party it was sweet!!! We got a huge picture made that took an hour for everyone to get in their places. We hheard a sweet talk from Elder Holland. It was a video of a talk he gave at the MTC the week before I went there. It was awesome. He talked about all sorts of things, he said that Preach My Gospel was to be the way to get the doctrine instilled in the hearts of the missionaries and help US become converted to the gospel for life. Thats awesome!!! It is for us! Then after hearing that and reading PMG it says right before chapter 3 an intro to the lessons that the things we teach are for us to love, cherish, live and belive. I love it! We also set some new goals for the new year. We are upping our baptisms to 400. We met and even exceeded our goal for 2011, whoo hoo!! We are getting close to finishing the Book of Mormon. I am almost done with 3 Nephi, its gone by fast. We did a talent show too, I was so nervous because the other night I felt impressed to do something and it was write a poem. So I started writing it but never finished and still wanted to share it, so I did and it wasn't too bad. People said they liked it and I guess I need to seek to develop that. Elder Mudaliar told me to pursue drawing too. I don't know about that one though. They made us an awesome lunch. So much and so much goodies. We had all the fixins. They had a stash of candy and it was like a candy store we had bags and grabbed what we wanted! I got a bag of gumballs and gave them out at our branch social. We also had the surprise of watching 17 miracles! What a sweet movie!!! I loved it! I cried like a baby, it was hard to see but the faith of the saints was unimaginable. The next day was our Branch Christmas party and we had an investigator bring his step son and about 7 or 8 nieces and nephews, they were good kids and they even helped clean everything up! The step son loves it and wants to "do what we do" haha good stuff. They came to a service project we had at the church the next day and helped us pull weeds, rake leaves and all the fun stuff. Then came to church sunday, the guy is on with a date for Feb. 18th. We do have a baptism coming up in January. They should be ready by then. It's been a great week! I am excited for Christmas I hope yall have a great one! I sent out Christmas cards to alot of people, I hope yall got them, I am really worried some got lost or taken or something. I hope not but know that I love you all!
Here is my new address for a while - would love to hear from you!
46 Mary Lou Trail
Crawfordville, FL 32327
Have a Merry Christmas!!!!
-Love
Elder West
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