Pecos week 10

Yesterday during dinner I got bored and made a duct tape tie.

It's pretty sweet, yet super hard to tie. Don't worry, I am not wearing it as a missionary.

This week we had district pictures. I tried to capture the chaos that usually ensues as we try to take them, so here's your behind the scenes look.

We had about 30 seconds of service this week. We helped a less active lady drill in her door that was falling off.

We had exchanges this week. I went out to Kermit TX and had a car for the day. What a blessing that was, because it was a cold one. Here I am with Elder Sork sleeping on their bunk beds. Truth be told, they're not actually bunk beds. They're just normal beds stacked on top of each other. Seems legit...

Here's another look at Kermit's shack they live in. They call it "the lillypad." It is basically a little shed converted into a one room house. It was fun... for a night. We woke up in the morning and our pipes were actually frozen. No water. We called one of the 2 members that lives in Kermit and we were blessed to be able to use their house for showers. That's my Kermit adventure.

I want to tell ya'll thank you so much for sending me letters every week. I love it and I am so blessed to hear from my wonderful family so often.

It was a great week for John and his family. He and Nancy, and Sarah all made it out to church. He's been doing a little bit of reading the Book of Mormon as well. We set a baptismal date with him last night for the 24th of January (Elder Palmer's last Saturday in the mission). We are pretty excited and we are super happy that both him and his family have been progressing so well. Pray that we may continue to teach him often. We were blessed with the perfect fellowship as well. Eddy (a long time friend of Nancy) came out with us and John and Sarah seem like they really look up to him and respect him. He has been giving them rides to church the last couple weeks as well. He seems like he can be a great father figure for those kids.

Not much other news with investigators this week. John was the only investigator we've been able to teach, although we did get to see a few other less actives. We had a total of 60 people at church yesterday, including some of the less actives we have been visiting which was very exciting.

This week in the mail I got the most gigantic Christmas card ever in the mail from Yoanna. She's the best in case you didn't remember that.

That's about it for this last week. Coming up on the radar this Friday we get to see Elder David A. Bednar and I am so stoked. I will be sure to let you know how it goes. I love you mom! I love you dad! I love you Meagan! I love you Courtney!