Happy Christmas!

hey all! thanks so much for your emails, it really made the day.. it was awesome to read stuff and I'm so glad everyone is doing so well, with the exception of dads horrible injuries! i hope they heal soon, so i can beat you at tennis when i get back in 2 years! well, i don't have much to report on.. or i guess i kind of do. We had an unexpected baptism on Saturday of a way awesome 13 year old girl, or wait maybe i already told you about that? anyway that was way cool! she is an awesome person. we met her through a cool member family in the ward.. and with that same family we have another baptism this weekend! with a friend of the families, named scotty! it was a sweet "conversion" story.. he had heard bits and parts of the gospel and stuff from this family all his life pretty much i guess, but never was actually taught.. well we finally got to go by on Sunday and teach for awhile (4 hours!) in the beginning, he said he didn't understand why we needed the book of Mormon and told us he was going to read the bible all the way through at first then the book of Mormon (that wasn't the coolest thing to hear, but he was so open, so he said it in a good way with the right intent, because he wanted to learn more about the church and eventually he has been planning on joining at some point).. well we went ahead with teaching and it was different then normal but when we got to the most important part of the lesson, sharing Joseph Smith's first vision (this is the MOST important part of every restoration lesson(first lesson), it invites the Spirit EVERYTIME!) and when we shared it with him he was clearly being touched by it.. and afterward.. said he had NEVER felt the spirit like that before.. and said it was "crazy" and "he would never forget it".. as my comp Elder Jones said "it was like he had a farrari in his front yard right in front of him and he never knew it was there until the cover was taken off.." that described his face perfectly! he looked at his best buddy in the member family with a face that was like "man! how come you never told your church was true!".. it was an awesome change and we taught and all types of stuff forever.. then we left with the plan that as soon as he moves to Utah this week he would get baptized once he was up there.. but after we left we made some calls to see what we could do (becuase he has never attended an actual sacrament meeting, ordinarily you don't baptize them).. and we got the ok, and they pushed their trip to Utah date back, and then we taught some other lessons and he is going to get baptized this Saturday! woohoo! it was way cool, i never heard someone express how powerful the spirit was to them and knew it was the spirit like this before.. not only that but the expression on his face just made me think "YEEAAH! HE KNOWS ITS TRUE!".. so that was awesome.. but that's all that..

now transfers.. i am staying in Sumter.. which I'm OK with, but i wouldn't be upset if i left next transfer.. Elder Jones is going Zone Leader in a different area and, my new Comp is taking his place, Elder Burrows, will be the new district leader and yup that's pretty much it!..

but now to answer some questions.. the weather is awesome.. some days its perfect some days its hot, other days its way cold.. so basically Texas weather.. or at least ALMOST Texas weather.. i miss you all so much.. i cant really remember the other questions.. sorry, these computers are way slow!! but i love you a lot and will talk to you on Christmas day!