eye of the tiger

ma sa leechool? thanks for all the letters and glad everything went well for thanksgiving. i am loving how positive and thankful everyone turns out to be this time of year. i am just smiling ear to ear. we taught a family the other day that had a christmas tree!! ahhh if that didn’t put me in the christmas spirit, i dont know what does!!! Let’s see, this week has been good, we are trying really hard to find people for december, we want to have a big baptism the 25th and celebrate with a white christmas!!! we have like 3 or 4 possibilities, but i am really trying to have the faith to find another family. i know God will lead us to them if we are just worthy to find them. anyhoo, yesterday was great, we saw the 4 boy sof the coc chub family receive the priesthood, and they were all in white shirts and ties and man i was just overflowing with joy. its really something i can’t explain, to feel so happy for the happiness of someone else. And, great news, in place of having a branch christmas party, the branch is taking all the money and going to the temple!!!!!! they want all the recent converts to go and do baptisms. man i am so stoked. i know if we can just get the newbies to the temple, they will have that seed that can sustain them. its so much more probable that they remain active if they make it to the temple. get them to the garners, as alma says. anyhoo, so i am pretty excited about that. this will be one of the only chances they have because it’s pretty far and everyone is pretty poor, they really can’t pay to go very often.
we have also been blessed to find a couple promising new investigators and the Lord is just answering our prayers.
friday night we had a special dinner with our recent converts and our mission president and the area 70 came to speak to them. all the way from the capital, that’s like 10 hours driving. anyhoo, lets see, well, i am doing well, we find out changes this week, that’s right, this change is already over an we will find out of castro and i stay here for my last change....
well, love you all, hope you are all happy and healthy and strong in the faith!!! if youre going to finsish the BOM this year, you should be finishing alma. i am right now and holy moroni and helaman, and those 2000, man its powerhouse in the scriptures!!!!
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
hna hall