First December Countdown!

Hey everyone,

    So I have some good news, dad will love it. President Beesley sent out the news that we can skype if we want to! So thats pretty sweet, the only bummer thing about it is that if we do skype we cant talk for as long as if we talked over the phone, because I would have to skype at a members house. So just let me know if you want to skype or call. Thats crazy that Braedon and Virginia are getting married this saturday, its come so fast! Man, 6 days, thats awesome, too bad im gonna miss it.  It sounds like you all had a fun week, and the parties sound like they were lots of fun. Thats pretty sweet that Kurt Bestor played for the Nu Skin party, and you all got kindles, thats pretty dang cool. Kenzies homecoming sounded like it went great.{ a cousin that just returned from Guatemala}  It sounds like her mission was crazy, it sounds like she had some completely ridiculous pile(thats what we call missionaries that are worthless, like a pile of poop) {so sorry - he's a boy} companions. I definitely wouldnt sleep much for that week or two until she left, Id be terrified.  Haha its funny that Avery moans about your long prayers, once they go on missions they're prayers will get pretty long and they'll see alot of really long prayers that other missionaries give. That's fun that you saw Lane at build a bear with the marines. I did get the picture, its pretty sweet.
Our investigators are going alright. So Joan, she was going to come to church yesterday but didn't end up coming. We think her husband might be an influence that's kind of getting in the way. She seemed so golden and excited, then her husband just got back from working on the slope, up with all the oil way up north. And since hes been back we haven't been able to see her.   He answers the door each time and said she's not feeling too good. So hopefully once he goes back to work in a week or two (the people who work on the slope usually work two weeks on and two off,because they have to fly up there) we can start working with her again and get her to church. He seems pretty nice, I think he's just not very interested, so hopefully once he leaves we can make some headway. Also, a members daughter, Tasha, we're going to start working with her probably this or next week. Shes not a member and when she came to alaska she was against the church and wasn't interested in it at all.  Now shes warming up to us alot and said that once her husband (soon to be ex husband) leaves town she'll accept a book of mormon and maybe start taking lessons.  Her husbands super against our church and mad that she's looking into it. She seems super solid and golden though, a previous elder from this mission lives in the apartment in the upstairs of her moms house and hes been really helping her progress.  They've had alot of talks about the gospel and good discussions. So hopefully we'll start teaching her soon. There's a couple other people were working with too, but we can really see that things are brewing and gonna start going good here soon. We've got a bunch of potential investigators too, so hopefully those turn into solid investigators soon.
    So this weeks been pretty good for the most part for us. The wind here has been crazy the past two days, and last night we got like a foot of snow! The weathers kind of bipolar right now, its pretty weird.  But its been warmer, its been in the 20s alot! I got your letters and the packages from family and soon to be family the Voeks, thank you all so much! I love getting mail, it's so exciting to see a letter in the PO box. I put up my little christmas tree and put all my presents around it, and then I taped up that paper christmas tree on the wall and put up all those paper ornaments on it. {Thanks to Uncle Park and Aunt Stephanie}  Ill send a picture of our living room next week.  It's completely decked out in christmas lights, we taped up probably 8 or 9 strands of lights on our ceiling so when we hit the light switch all the lights turn on, and now thats how we light up our living room, I think it's awesome. Were borrowing 2 strands from a member, im using the lights you sent me in my christmas package, and then we got the rest from salvation army, it was pretty sweet. Theyre so dang cheap there, like a buck fifty for 100 lights, its great, gotta love thrift stores, and the best part is that theyre brand new and work like a charm. So our apartments pretty cool right now. We did exchanges this week, it was alot of fun, I went to Chugiak with Elder Darcey,and Elder MacPherson stayed in Eagle River with Elder Ivan, it was fun, then elder Ivan and Darcey slept over at our place last night becasue they had a dentist apointment early this morning, that was alot of fun. Elder Mac got Dear Johned, that wasn't so fun for him. We got to go to the temple on Wednesday! It was awesome, I love going to the temple. Last night I found out that a guy in the ward here helped design the anchorage temple. I thought it was cool. Tomorrow we have zone conference, thatll be fun, its our christmas one so theyre giong to have a dinner there for us and everything. It should be a pretty good zone conference.
      So nothing too crazy has happened lately.   this weeks been pretty good,  Love you guys!

                            Love Elder Roney