Dear Family,
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I imagine that if you are reading this then you got
home safely. It sounds like you had a great time in California. It
sounds like you had a pretty full Christmas day. We were at our
apartment for most of the day. We were still able to go and have dinner
with the Guzman's, our investigators. It reminded me of trying to eat
dinner at our house. I really enjoyed it though. It was so much better
then having dinner at our apartment. I would have gone crazy if we had
stayed at home all day long. I can't even imagine what would happen to
me if we got stuck in our apartment for a couple of days. I did call
Camille and I talked to her for quite a while. I called Grandma after
we got back from dinner. It was nice to be able to talk to all of you
guys. I realized later that I didn't get to talk to Zander. So sorry I
didn't get to talk to you buddy. I love you, but no you can't play my
PSP or my iPod. How did everyone like all the rides they went on at
Disneyland? Did Emmie go on Space Mountain? I was telling her about it
and she said that she didn't want to go on it.
I sent home a package for Mom for Christmas so it should be there
by now. If it isn't then I don't know what happened to it. I hope that
you like what is inside. It took quite a bit of time to make.
This past week was a pretty good one. Well other then Wednesday. I
ended up getting sick and throwing up so we spent that night in the
apartment. Brandy didn't end up getting re-baptized on Saturday because
she didn't fell like she was ready for it yet. It is ok with me. I
would have been really mad if it had been because she was smoking. In
all reality Oklahoma is more like Smoke-lahoma. There are so many
people who smoke and don't care. It is ridiculous.
Last Thursday Christina was admitted to the hospital. We went in
that night to see her, and see how she was doing. She told us that she
had initially gone in because bronchitis. After she got there she found
out that she also had pneumonia. On top of those two things the doctors
told her that she had gone into heart failure. When she told us all of
that I had no idea what to say. We had a small lesson with her and
then we were able to give her a blessing. We have gone back every day
since she first went in to see how she was doing. Each day she been
getting better and better. Yesterday when we went in was by far the
best day. We went in and said a prayer with her before we started the
lesson we had planned. After the prayer, before we were able to get
started, she told us that the doctors who were taking care of her could
no longer see any signs of her being in heart failure. It was a miracle!
I was so excited when I heard that I almost jumped out of my seat. She
was in heart failure 3 days earlier and now she isn't! Can you believe
it? The priesthood is such an amazing blessing to have on the Earth.
She is doing really well and it looks like she will be able to go home
either today or tomorrow. Less then a week after she was told she had
gone into heart failure! I am still amazed at this. We were afraid that
she wasn't going to be able to be baptized on the 12th, but now it
looks like she will be. We went over the Baptismal Interview with her
and she is ready for it. She really wants to be baptized as well, which
is great!
It is crazy how fast mission calls are coming in. I now have 5
friends who have their calls. Lincoln Wyatt is going to Guatemala. I
thought Kelsey would like to hear that. Over the next 5 months or so we
will be getting 85 new missionaries in the Oklahoma City mission. What
I think is really crazy with all of this is that in July President
Taylor is going to be released, so the new mission president will be put
in right after all of these changes to the mission. The Lord knows
what he is doing though.
Well that is all for me. Things are going really great here.
Thank you for all of the Christmas presents. I really love the Doctor
Who shirts and keychain. Everything was great! I love all of you. I
hope you enjoy the rest of your Christmas break.
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