Elder Roney!

Hey everyone!

This week was amazing! But Ill get to that in a little. It sounds like your weeks been awesome! Sounds like Brolins camp out was alot of fun, the sand dunes were always one of my favorite campouts to go on, theyre so much fun.  Too bad it got cold for them though. At least it wasnt as cold as it is here though, right now its about - 12, its been about that cold all week up here for us, or colder. It sounds like you 3 had a fun time skiing at deer valley!  Skiing is always super fun, I'm glad Avery's liking it more and getting better. Its too bad you guys don't have any snow yet, its the middle of January and there's no snow?! That's so crazy, you guys can have some of our snow, I've never seen so much snow in my life. The snow burms and all that stuff here look sort of like the snow burms that are usually up at deer valley, but they're bigger here haha. Hopefully that big storm coming with give you some snow. Its been crazy, there hasn't been snow for a week or so though, I'd rather have snow than cold though. I'm glad everyone's doing pretty good, that's nice that they have school off, all the kids up here love it. Bummer that the Lexus is giving you guys such a hard time lately. Thats awesome that Kinney's getting married, exciting stuff! Tell him congratulations for me. And Jeremy's getting married? I didn't even know they were thinking about getting married, that's crazy, that would be so crazy to be married right now. Hopefully it works out for them. Tell him congratulations too for me. That's good that you all had such a good stake conference, it sounds like it was awesome. That's funny that Brother Edmunds thought it was so funny that his brothers talk got cut out for a while. I could see him getting a good laugh out of that. That's an awesome object lesson Janessa told you about, maybe Ill use that one. We don't do a lot of object lessons, but maybe for a spiritual thought after one of our dinners or in a lesson or something Ill use that one. That's good that the Jazz is doing good, I'm jelous of that picture you sent me dad, that's legit. It looks like it was a ton of fun. Who won that game? And BYU bballs doing great, that's awesome, hopefully they keep it up, that'd be awesome to see them get to the playoffs and do good. Oh and tell Peter hi back for me. Those things you would say dad are awesome. Its so true that were so lucky that we have all those things restored back on to the Earth and that we have all those things. Well, Im glad you all had a good week and are doing good!

 So this week was amazing for us! We taught a good amount and got some referrals from members! It was awesome, we taught a lot of lessons this week, even though we were stuck inside one of the days due to weather. On Tuesday we were able to teach Eric again, and we also taught him last night as well. Were just trying to get him to the point that he feels ready to be baptized and is doing it %100 for the right reasons, and get him to the point where he knows %100 that this is true and what he needs in his life. He wants to be baptized its just a matter of when. So we were able to have 2 super good lessons with him this week, which was awesome! Then also on Tuesday we taught Paige and Pierce, the two little kids. It was awesome, we only shared a short lesson about reading scriptures daily and getting that daily nourishment from the scriptures and we each bore our testimony about reading the scriptures and praying and going to church. It was an awesome lesson even though it was pretty short. And after the lesson we played a game of soccer with them haha. We usually play a game of ball tag with them after the lesson but they wanted to do a quick game of soccer inside their living room. It was super fun. We were able to have a discussion with Tasha on Tuesday as well, we were just pretty much talking with her and answering/asking her questions. Then we were able to meet with some of our potential investigators and with some less active members and we contacted some referrals some members gave us, one might end up being promising, well see.  So teaching was good for us this week, the weathers been pretty crazy though. Last week it snowed once or twice then got super cold right after for a few days then warmed up and snowed again then went back to freezing cold. Last week it got to 20 below, and then a couple days later it warmed up to about 40 degrees and snowed, then stayed about 30 degrees or so for a couple days which was awesome! Then a day or two later it got cold again, and when we went to church it was about -20 at the church and -10 up higher in the neighborhoods, and now its about -12 or -13. So weathers been pretty interesting the past week or so. But the week was awesome overall. The areas making some progress finally. And the suns finally starting to come back! The other day the sun didn't go down until about 5! I love it! I cant wait to have a normal amount of sun light again.  Anyways, this week was great, and it sounds like everything's going great there at home. I love you all and hope this next week is just as good if not better for you all! Love you!

Love Elder Roney