Thanksgiving

All I can think to say right now is... WOW! Thank you so much for those thoughts mom and dad. That was exactly what I needed to hear right now. I started tearing up while I was reading that.

It has been a tough week and that letter just gave me the motivation and morale boost that I needed. I am going to print that off and keep it somewhere safe to keep me focused. Man, seriously though, that was amazing!

It's almost as if the spirit told you my feelings... What you said was pretty much what happened at church last week... we taught Gospel Principles class with our investigators and ward missionaries and I pretty much soloed the whole thing. This is also how most of our appointments and meetings have gone but I have seen some improvement! We have been going over lessons and helping him to know what to help teach. He has been with some hard companions in the past and a long story short, before he came up here to Lancaster, he hasn't taught a lesson in over 4 months and some lessons even not at all. I love Elder Ludlow so much and he is one of the best guys I have met out here and I am so glad we are companions. He is a very humble guy and wants to learn so badly. We have had some great talks and we are figuring out who we want to be and what we want to accomplish and have set some really good goals that we are excited to accomplish!

Update: Thanksgiving was really good! We had probably 3 dinners within 4 hours! We hung out with Jackson and Salisbury on Thanksgiving and road around in their car! Way nice to get from point A to point B in less that 5 minutes.

For Christmas we have a family (Pomazal's and Bernard's) that reserved us (Barlow), and Jackberry for the whole day and told us we can't leave! People have been asking us what we are doing and the Pomazal's and Bernard's tell them to "get lost because we already reserved the missionaries!" So that's where we will be all Christmas day... held hostage. Yeah it will be interesting. But I have to go now, the other missionaries just got here and they need to e-mail.

PS: I got the bike lights finally and they are awesome!

PSS: We are having a baptism on the Dec. 11th! Erin Castillo! The Castillo family is one of my favorite families by far! I don't know if I have mentioned them but they are way cool! Oh, yeah, I just remembered that I have! I did tell Sara about Abby and told her they should be pen pals! I gave her our address and hopefully you get something soon from Sara, Abby!

I love you all! Have a good week and I hope I can hear that song about grandpa sometime! ;)

Love, Elder Brady

---No Regrets---