Dec 29th 2010

Hola Hola,

well my doctors appt went well, although the MRI was the most boring thing I have ever done in my life and its a good thing I am not clostrophobic. I dont have my results yet so you will have to wait until next week to hear them. I hope everything goes well with Makenna and I will pray for her. The Priesthood is a wonderful blessing to have in our lives,  just wish people really understood the power they hold. While I was waiting for my MRI i got an unexpected call from the Zone Leaders. They told me that my companion Elder H was going to be transfered and my new companion is Elder F He is from Georgia  has been out less than a year so we will see how things go. I am excited and I think we will work great together and the experience will help our spaish out. Well the first transfer is over and Elder H and I taught 94 lessons to be exact. We have 9 people on date. On sunday we were supposed to have the baptism of C and A but they werent ready, so we went to visit them sunday night. I our other investigator was there too. We taught them lesson 3 the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we drew it out on the white board I had bought for such occasions. At the end we asked them the baptismal questions and they answered them all perfectly. So we asked them if they knew these things were true and they said yes we do. Elder H then asked so what is stopping you from setting a solid date. They said nothing really. I then said what date will you be ready for (thinking they would want 2 or 3 weeks) and C replied Jan 2nd I then said well if she is getting baptized that day then I am too. We are still working with A because he is 13 and understands english better but we think he will be ready for sunday too. So we are having 3 baptisms this sunday as long as we can work out the difficulty of  I not living in our area, but he came to us so we didnt poach. The R family is progressing well although they didnt attend church on sunday so we are still working on that with them. They loved their chirstmas gifts we gave them. We had an Elder's Quorum activity last night, it was a soccer tournament in the stake center. We brought several of our investigators and to my not so surprise I was the only white guy there lol. We played 3 games each to 10 goals. Afterwards several people asked me where I learned to play soccer, I couldnt tell if they were making fun of me or complimenting me, but it seemed like a compliment. It was a ton of fun but I felt like my dad when I was done, like I was falling apart and sore. Love you dad. We went to temple square last thursday as a zone and it was tons of fun although I realized I am starting to really become a missionary. We were walking around temple square and this really cute girl walked up and put her hand on my shoulder and asked me if the temple was closing for 5 years. I felt so uncomfortable I couldnt stop thinking "Why is this girl touching me!?" I mean yes i noticed she was cute but hey I only shake girls hands. It was weird and I didnt like that little experience. We were on the northeast side of temple square and this man gave us a wheel chair to take back to the visitor center in the south west corner. So I was pushing it and Elder H my District Leader hoped on and sat down. As I pushed him through temple square a couple walked up and recognized Elder H and exclaimed "What happened, What did you do to yourself?" Elder H obviously not thinking stood up and everyone around us was a little shocked. We are teaching 5 new people now. A member moved into our ward and is living in a house with 5 nonmembrers so he is working with us to teach them. On christmas day we visited some of Elder H's converts. At one house there were about 20 people having a party but about 10 were pretty sick and they all asked us for preisthood blessings, so we annointed and gave 10 blessings. We then traveled up to Kamas which is past Park City. When we pulled into Kamas the temperature was 12. Anyways I have another really cool spiritual experience about a recent convert who was Islamic and an experience with his wife so remind me next week. Anyways love you all and thanks for the gifts and letters from everyone.

 

Love,

Elder Jolly