December 3rd, 2012

Hey family :)

I’m glad that the house is all decorated and the lights are up!  I’m sure it looks really good.  Thanks for the money in the account that really helps!  Our mission president talked to us and wants us to move out of the Patty's by Christmas, I guess that was the deal.  The Patty's said we could stay but President Jones just doesn’t want to intrude on the members.  So we have been looking for an apartment to move into in the next week or two.  All the ones we wanted to move into are full or can’t get us in until January so it looks like we will be living up in Austin.  I can already see it will be a problem because all the members live in Buda.  So hopefully we can get things worked out with our housing.  Luckily our next transfer meeting isn’t until January 3rd so I will most likely be here for Christmas. But I can’t think of any CD's that I want from Deseret book.  I’m sure there are some good ones I just don’t know of any or what they are called.  But yeah as it gets closer we will figure out a time to call on Christmas.  We can do it in the evening so we don’t have to worry about 3 way calling.  As far as a gift card McDonalds or Taco Bell are probably my more favorite ones ha-ha.  Well Courtney it sounds like you are going to have a great basketball season!  Keep up the good work and keep me updated on your games and how you do!  Thanks for the message from seminary I really like that thought :)  Wow Monkey it sounds like you are doing great in your college classes!  That would be awesome if you graduated with your associates!  I didn’t know that you were taking that many credits that’s pretty awesome!  You must be pretty dedicated to be taking early morning seminary.  That’s real early in the morning I don’t think I could have done it ha-ha.  Well for this week we had dinner with Mike and his family and they seem to be doing great.  They didn’t make it to church yesterday because two of his kids had the flu, but hopefully we can get back there sometime this week and keep the lessons going.  I think it would be great to have them baptized by Christmas.  It might not work out but it would be cool.  Also yesterday at church we talked to a guy in the ward and he told us he has someone who wants to be baptized.  I guess it’s his 12 year old daughter that was living with his ex wife and is now living with him and his new wife.  The mom wouldn’t ever let her get baptized but now since she lives with them she can be and she said she wants to be baptized by Christmas.  We thought it was really cool how out of nowhere someone comes and wants to be baptized ha-ha.  It was definitely a blessing from the Lord.  So we have an appointment for Tuesday.  Well I hope that you all enjoy the ward party, ours is on the 15th.  We also watched the Christmas devotional last night it was really great.  Also mormon.org/Christmas is a great tool the church has been using this holiday season to help the members share the gospel with their friend.  It’s worth checking out!  That’s all for this week i love you all and I hope you have a great week!

Love,

Devan