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