hey mom and dad, well im just going to say hi and bye cuz i get to speak to you in like 2 days anyways so i dont have a whole lot to say. haha just kiddin i know that wouldnt make mom to happy with me. but anyways it was a really nice week. it felt good to have a full week of work with no problems or things put in our way. we were just talking to everyone! hindu, muslem, christian, seek, it didnt matter it was fun. our district had over 50 new investigators. but it was good for me to see because i realized what really can be done in a week and how many people you talk to in a day so im setting a goal to always treat every week like that. i has helped to have all the christian starts but we even found some good hindu familes. we taught a fam that the son was the number 2 rank tenis player in india a few years back. the father didnt believe in god at all. the mother likes christ, the daughter is fully hindu, and the son is everything. haha so it was interesting to teach them. we started with the restoration but finished in the plan of salvation somehow. so aruns family came to church on sunday and stayed the whole time!! they have to make big sacrifices to bring their little girl. she is like 9 and he just carries her like a baby. its awesome to see the love in there family. but there super excited to be baptized on jan 3 and they are following the word of wisdom now too! we gave a blessing to the wife aruna so that she could learn english. 2 zone conferences ago pres talked about the priesthood and it made us realize that we dont use it enough. a lot of people hear think the gift of toungues is some crazy language that someone babbles but its not. so we have started blessing the people who have a desire to learn and they are able to learn like you cant even believe. but after we gave the blessing she was soo happy. tonight there is christmas party at church that were going to so we will have a good time with that. indian skits can be pretty funny. haha.
everything is going really well though. i just wanted to say thanks again for all the stuff you sent. and im greatful your sending stuff to narla and when you said you sent b ball shorts i was shocked because i forgot to tell you to send some. i was going to take him to city center where there are nice western stores and buy him some for christmas but you already took care of it.
it sounds like the barr construction party was good too. haha its funny how the little kids are scared like anything untill he gives them something. haha. sometimes new babies see us white people and just have a look like what the heck are you? haha. well i cant believe its already time to speak on the phone again. last year i couldnt wait and now i dont know how i feel. haha it will be good though. narla is calling 25 night and im going to try and call by 8 am here but sometimes the places dont open on time so if its not right then dont worry. have some questions and stuff cuz im trying to think of what to tell ya and i got nothing. haha. so i guess just have everyone there around that time on christmas. but im doing good and enjoying christmas in the sun. haha. thanks for all you do. love you!
kaden
hey mom and dad. thanks for the pictures and all that. haha it seems like just yesterday we were doing that stuff for todd. time flies. but thanks for your support and tell everyone else the same. so its been a good week. all restrictions are done and were back to normal missionary work. man it feels good too. haha. its cool too because during christmas some christians put out a big star in front of there door or hanging off their building. were always looking for christians and somedays it feels like there are no christians in all of india. haha. but now more and more starts are giving them away. they may as well just stand out in front of there house and yell for me to come teach them. hahaha. so were having fun star finding because pretty much where theres a star, theres a family. so were working are hardest to get to all of them. so i have been doing what dad said by teaching people about the birth of the savior. and it has given me a even greater appreciation for what he did for us. many people here no the name Jesus Christ but they no nothing about Him so im greatful to have the privilage to teach them.
so missionaries have been teaching a family in my area for over a year now and they have never been dropped. i feel bad because they are a great family and have a lot of faith. they have a mentally and phisically handicap daughter who is about 8 and its difficult for there full family to come so off and on they come. but i was looking over there teaching record and they had never been taught most of the comandments. word of wisdom tithing fasting or anything. so last week we decided to teach them the things that will start to change there lives. they are working on there word of wisdom and are already down to one cup of tea. after the lesson the wife who only speaks hindi asked us when she can be baptized! we challenged them a couple weeks ago but they wanted to pray about it. she reads the bom every day and now wants to be baptized. im way excited for them and hope that there whole family will have the same desire as her. were going to teach them about temples and how they can live together forever tonight!:)
oh and mom you can quit worrying cuz your packages made it. dang i could start an american chocolates store and make bank. haha in india all candy is called chocolates. but man those 3 musketeer mint are bomb. im not saying that so you send more either but thanks for everything. i feel like a million bucks in new gs and white shirts. i didnt realize i was wearing brown shirts untill i got these new ones haha. and the ties are awesome. everyone at zone conf yesterday was jealouse of my tie. i wore the big fat pink and black one. haha.
anyways im doing great and having fun. i have a bit of a cold right now but other than that im great! thanks so much for everything both of you do. your the best and i love you so much. have a great week and go get in some pow turns for me. oh and i was going to ask you if you could e mail some pics of me on mile high and a couple wakeboarding, baseball, and family because i want to use them for bapt interviews. it makes the people more comfortable starting by looking at pics. thanks. love you
kaden
