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Everyone,

This was a pretty good week, I came and I don't remember if I said that the area book was a mess, the area book keeps a record of everone we teach, what they have been taught and when, where they live their phone number and information about the area. WEll this book was a mess so the first part of the week we went through the entire thing and sorted them and picked some former investigators that we wanted to follow up on. It's actually kinda cool, we have a bunch of appointments with families this week, on thursday we will meet with two jehovahs witness families, they are quite nice and will feed us borsch. I've learned if you aren't teaching for conversion, teach for understanding, as the understanding comes so will conversion. Right now we are teaching for undrstanding. We also are teaching this family who really wants to learn english and it has really gotten in the way before and have straight out told the missionaries that they only want english but when we stopped by them, I told from personal experience how the book of mormon and the gospel helps, then testified of the blessings, they now read with us constantly at their home so we can help them understand the scriptures, That was one of the reasons they didn't like it, they didn't understand.
IN my new area, we are doing an enlish practice, aside from the one we do in the branch building, our area is about 30 minutes away from the branch by care so we are doing one in our area and we will see how that turns out. Victor is a character, he still smokes and so we tried to get him to quit yesterday and it didn't even get close, he gets mad, but I'm going to keeps pushing the issue. It's one thing that I am good at being blunt and pushing the issue. haha not always a good thing huh?
We have a sweet member in our area who was baptized 8 months ago and he is helping us a ton he is a total stud, his name is Yaraslav, His family isn't members yet but we will see about that. Also when I was in the office, There is a member that works for the church, she will move to my area and we will start trying to covertly teach her husband and slowly convert him, he is a really stand up guy and just needs to get baptized.anyaway we have alot of pontential and just needs to be worked hard, we'll see how it all pans out, with that thing we call agency. .haha Sure is a two sideded sword.I love you tons and thought about you on new years. . .Keep yopu in my heart...


Elder Shane Forest Davis

"Walk Slow, and Drink lots of Water"