Alright

Hey everyone!

  This weeks been alright, we were finally able to get ahold of Rebecca on the phone again. The night that we called her she said that she was leaving to Hawaii that night until the 3rd, but we were able to set up a lesson with her for the 4th and she wants to be baptized on the 12th! (: so that was a pretty exciting phone call haha, not only were we able to actually get ahold of her and have a conversation after a month of failed attempts, but we were able to set up a lesson and baptismal date, it made that extremely slow and bleh kind of night not completely stink. We met with Kate again, and reviewed the restoration, she could remember the bulk of the lesson, it was awesome. We read some more with sister Hansen, now were in Jacob 3, and thats going good. Taught Joe and his family the plan of salvation, they had a family friend that passed away this last week so we felt that the plan of salvation was perfect to teach them that night. They seem like they really accepted what we taught and they had some really good questions too, it was a good lesson. We finished teaching Ted the plan of salvation as well, it was good, it was a quicker lesson though but still good.

  We had the ward adult christmas party this week, it was alot of fun. At the end there was a white elephant gift exchange, I ended up getting some nasty old candles inside of a small cooler haha. I had a sweet big maglight but it got stolen, so I picked a gift that was still unopened on the table and ended up with the gross candles. But its ok because at the end of district meeting this week were having a white elephant gift exchange and Im just gonna rewrap the candles and use them for that haha. For Pday I pretty much just hung out with Alyssa and the sister missionaries she was with. It was fun, she wanted to go shopping for Christmas presents for her family so we were just walking around the gift shops in anchorage, so now I know what are in those stores (: But it was fun getting to spend some time with her on her last day. We found out that the member we ate with last night teaches martial arts.   So, on monday we're probably gonna go over there and he's gonna teach us some stuff for like 2 hours haha, it'll be fun.  (: I got the box with all my presents from you guys and I got another box from Britt and I got the box from aunt Mary and a book from Richard and Luann Watson! haha it was a good week for mail. Thank you guys so much for sending that stuff! On Christmas morning we're opening our presents with the meadow creek elders. And you guys should have gotten my sd card, it's been almost a month now since I sent it.  Maybe it got lost in the mail or something. I forgot my card reader, but maybe I'll try sending pictures through email again next week to see if it will finally let me yet. 

  Christmas should be pretty fun, like I said, in the morning we're opening our presents with the meadow creek elders, at about 9 were eating breakfast with the Giffords, 10:30 we have district meeting, at 1 alaska time I'm skyping you guys from the Manwaring home, then later that night after dinner we're going caroling again, so it should be a good Christmas day. I haven't been able to hand out all of the candy canes yet, I still have some left. And surprisingly there hasnt been very much snow this year.  It's snowed like twice so far, it's been too cold to snow. (below 0 & negative) So when it does snow we definitely stay busy shoveling and doing stuff like that, at least for the morning.   So the Manwaring family is awesome, I'm so happy they're letting us skype at their house. I'm gonna be using their ipad and elder Sant is gonna be using their mac computer. They have 3 kids, one boy and 2 girls, and they're all primary age. But they're super smart, and they know their scriptures and are pretty talented kids. They're raising some pretty impressive kids for sure. Brother Manwaring was the guy in the ward that I told you guys about who had the tree fall on him when everyone was cleaning up and cutting down trees after the windstorm. But he's recovering super good, he just can't lift heavy stuff for like 6 more months or something. Sister Manwaring makes quilts professionally, she has a giant quilt maker thing and said that if we get her the supplies she'll do one for free since i'm a missionary (:, and she also has a kiln and makes glass bowls and plates and stuff. They're a pretty awesome family. 

  Anyways, I'm glad you all had such a good week, and are doing so good! Can't wait to see you in a few days on skype! And I'm doing good, I havent opened my presents so far even though they've been calling my name and tempting me to open them every single day (: Love you guys!

   Love Elder Roney

popcorn popping

Hey everyone!

 I only have like 30 minutes to do this email so sorry if its all screwed up.  This computer took 40 minutes to get to my email because its flipping ancient, so I don't have much time to do this. Anyways, so this week was ok, we met with Kate last night and were meeting with her again tonight, We finished teaching her everything that we teach investigators but she wants us to still come over.  So we're gonna be reviewing stuff now and reading chapters with her.  But she's doing way good.  She leaves january 7th, (She's from Australia) so not much time left here in the u.s.   Met with sister Hansen again this week, she's doing good. She wasn't reading along with us this time until the very end because she was making projects for peoples christmas presents. But she still enjoys it I think. We met with this lady that other missionaries handed off to us this week. So now we have another investigator :) She seems pretty solid and pretty interested, and we're going back on thursday, so we're excited for that. We also met with a lady we tracted into a few months ago, we were mainly answering questions the whole time, but we won't be able to go back until after the holidays.

   We went and saw santa this week haha, there's a less active guy in our ward (the one who shot a bear in his kitchen) who plays santa on base at their big christmas tree lighting thing and he invited us to come to it. So we went and got pictures with santa, and with reindeers too.  They had 4 from the reindeer farm up in palmer.   So we got to pet and hang out with some reindeers for a little bit, it was pretty cool. Then I had the dentist this week, yay, I'm sending you a letter today and it has the bill in it. Oh and it warmed up to 15 degrees this week! It was great, still kinda cold but not in the negatives, we had a cold snap for almost a week and it was about -15 so its nice to have it in the positive teens. So things are good, this weeks been pretty good too, and thanks for the package!   It's all set up in our apartment.   And tell uncle Brook and his family "Thanks" for sending their package too! It was awesome to get 2 packages this week. And I'll answer your questions next week, love you guys!

 Love Elder Roney

Yup

Hey everyone!

 This week was good, nothing too exciting happened this week. Its been in the single digits, teens and negatives this week, , all I know is that its super cold haha. We had zone conference on Wednesday, and that was pretty good. I interviewed a girl for baptism this week, she was super ready and definitely had a testimony. District meeting was on Tuesday, it was good and fun. And tomorrow I get to do it again. We also ate dinner with the Giffords, his first name is Lyman by the way, not his last (: It was good, they live at the cub scout camp so we were in their mess hall for dinner, and got to make the ginger bread houses. It was alot of fun, there were like 3 or 4 other families there as well, it was awesome. And Im not sure what time we'll skype you yet, Ill probably let you know next week though. 

  We were able to meet with Terry, Kate and sister Hansen. We met with Terry on monday and taught her about the gospel of jesus christ and it went really well, her kids were in the other room for the most part so there werent really very many distractions haha. We taught Kate last night and taught her about following the prophet, and we asked her if she wants to be taught by missionaries when shes back in Australia. She said that she didnt even realize it was an option haha and that she'll ask her parents if thats ok. Then we gave her some more reading assignments (: We also met with sister Hansen again, and read 4 more chapters with her. It was good, and we were able to get a lesson set up with Rebecca and Bill for this week. Were gonna get Rebecca on date this week, it'll be great!

  Sorry, I dont have much time so this is about all Im gonna type today, sorry its so short... Anyways, Im glad you guys are all doing so good! Its always good to hear. This weeks been good and hopefully this next week will be even better, and hopefully you guys have a great week and enjoy the hot weather down there! Love you all!

 Love Elder Roney