Hi everyone!
Well, we managed to have a really good week! We picked up three new investigators. Two are iffy and we'll have to see how the next couple lessons go, but the other one is golden! His name is Ashton and he's a junior in high school. And we got him on date too, for January 14th! We had quite a few lessons this past week, and half of them were with nonmembers so that's great. It was actually probably one of the best weeks I've had since I've been here. And only two appointments fell through.
And this week is looking pretty dapper as well. It could very well be our busiest week yet for teaching, and there are some potential investigators we could (and hopefully do pick up), and Quentin is getting baptized on Christmas Eve and Confirmed at church on Christmas! And of course, Christmas is this week! Not only is it an exciting time of year, and a great opportunity to outwardly celebrate the Savior and actually have most of society celebrate with you, but for missionaries it's also one of the two greatest days of the year (the other being Mother's Day). We get to Skype home! I'm really looking forward to that. So yeah, it's looking like a pretty good week, and it's looking like the area is really starting to bounce back.
And we finally got some really good snow! It was actually kind of mean how it happened. So we've had this warm spell recently and the temperature has been in the 40s and 50s. But then a few days ago, the temperature dropped over 20 degrees over night leaving a bunch of ice (freezing rain) and a few inches of snow. And the last couple days have barely broken the 20s, so it's been chilly. Not as cold and snowy as Michigan, but winter's definitely here. The 20+ degree temperature drop in less than 12 hours was just really painful though.
Sunday night we had a visitor just in time for the holidays: Khan. That crafty little mouse is back and we spent a good solid 15 minutes chasing him around the apartment. Still didn't catch him, because we forgot about his teleportation ability. But, we did find where he hid and and I baited and set up my live trap right on the opening, so to come out, he'll literally have to go right into the trap. Unless he
uses a backdoor which he might very well have but hopefully not. Hopefully we catch him soon!
And that's been my week. Pretty good. I hope you all have a great week and a great Christmas! Remember the reason for the season, and keep Christ in Christmas. And if you haven't, you should check out the Light The World initiative on Mormon.org. It's pretty cool!
Merry Christmas!
-Elder Oswald
PS- Mouse update: He used the back door. KHAAAAAN!!!
Picture 1: Elder Robinson and I at the Transfer Van. Robby got transferred up north so we made sure to get a picture. He looks kinda goofy in this picture but he said he was trying to look "majestic".
Picture 2: A really nice rainbow, just a few hours before winter set in.
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