Christmas

I've got to say one thing. Talking to the fam was good.

Also my branch has a bunch of most excellent members. We were fed a ton of food but even better we have a bunch of great members who took us under their wings. I've got to say my first Christmas away from the fam was a success. I found a lot of extended family this last week.

Now for the follow up from last email. My exchange with the Zone leader was a success. He is more of a Yolo missionary so our plans for the day kindof happened. But, when you yolo it right you are more receptive to the spirit. So we had a bit of "exchange magic" as he called it. He felt inspired to text this guy who has been busy with finals at the university. Said guy texted back that he had his last final and we could come anytime that day after 2:00. So we went over there and went over the book of Enos with him. Some background to this guy: his first language is Not english so old style english is like a foreign language to him and the last lesson they had with him (which was on exchanges with the APs) he decided to start believing in God. So he's quite the guy to be doing all of this stuff. Anyway in our lesson with him we committed him to Baptism. Dang fetch oh my heck. For not believing in God not too long ago he's making massive changes. It was indeed some "exchange magic". Needless to say I'm pretty excited to be going on exchanges with Elder Grant from CTK (Carry the Kettle) in our district.

Also another interesting story from the exchange was we swung by this guys house to see how he was doing. He let us right in which was pretty great. He seemed like a super chill kinda hipstery guy. Also something great he had this old old poster for Lord of the Rings. I was super jealous ;) We didn't have much time with him so we just read the intro to the Book of Mormon. We talked about it a bit and when we got to the part where it talks about when you get to know that the Book of Mormon is truly the word of God you can also know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is also the true church we invited him to be baptised. He declined, in a nice way, and we continued on. Come to find out, HE WAS a MEmber THIs Whole time. We don't know why he's pretending to be just an investigator of the Church but that's how it is. And of course to see how I am in lessons Elder Coleman did not inform me of this until after the fact. It was some funky business.

That's all I got for now. I may send a following email about some Native stuff but for now that's all I got. Thank you all for your support and I hope y'all had a Merry Christmas. It's odd to think that it actually happened and now it's over but life goes on. Potatoes gonna potate.