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Hey everyone! 

   This week was good. Sister Beesley told us of some big news that is happening because of the missionary age announcement in general conference. Sister Beesley said that everyone in the mission needs to be ready to train by february.  Because in february, our mission is going to be getting 100 new missionaries and 50 are going to be sister missionaries.  Right now we have 150 missionaries in the mission. Pretty awesome news, that transfer is gonna be nuts. President Beesleys probably stressing super bad because there's not too many places in this mission to put them all haha.  So, in the anchorage, eagle river and wasilla areas there's probably going to be two sets of missionaries in a bunch of areas, it'll be interesting to see what happens and what president does with all the new missionaries. 

   *So this week we saw Rebecca on monday, and we had her lesson at the house of a member of the stake presidency. It went super good, we taught the plan of salvation, its super nice having a member of the stake presidency at lessons, he always has the perfect answer for any questions we cant or can answer. Its awesome, we were gonna have another lesson with her yesterday but she had to cancel because she was super busy. We were gonna try to get her on date for baptism for the end of the month, so hopefully we can meet with her again soon and get her on date and start working towards that. 

   *We saw sister Hansen again and read a few chapters from the book of mormon, it was good we found our more reasons why she isnt the most interested in joining the church right now. When she was in college she met with sister missionaries and they were just awful and completely turned her off to the church, and she had a disagreement with her husbands mom and that didn't help her desire to look further into the church either. So it was good to find some of that out so we actually know a little bit why shes not interested in taking the lessons haha. It was good though, she seems like she enjoys reading the scriptures with us.

   *We met with Victoria, she's married to an inactive member. We had dinner at their house and she had alot of questions about the priesthood and coffee and caffiene and all that good stuff. It was good, shes definitely interested in looking into the church and she said that she wants to come to church one of these upcoming weeks, and we're meeting with her again on thursday, so that should be super good. 

   *Then we contacted a referral from a lady in the meadow creek ward and taught her a little bit of the restoration and answered some questions for her. Apparently she's been pretty interested in taking the lessons for a while now and so it was good to meet with her.

   *We weren''t able to meet with Kate, she was pretty busy this week and wasn't able to meet with us. We weren't able to teach Bill either, but we were able to drop off a super large print book of mormon for him and give him some chapters to read for next time we come over.  

   Halloween was alright.  We had to be in our apartments at 7 unless we got special permission for a lesson or something.  But it was alright, the mission did this radio program thing over polycom for the missionaries and whoever knew about it.  It was pretty much just missionaries telling stories, singing/playing songs they wrote, and reading scriptures and all that good stuff. But it was alright because it was cold outside on halloween but warm in our apartment. Here in chugiak theres only a couple neighborhoods that kids trick or treat.   Everyone for the most part just goes to parties or trunk or treats.  So the members that did buy candy for trick or treaters make us take some when we go to their house. I'm glad you guys had a good halloween, too bad that someone stole Avery's sombrero and that the car got towed when he was only gone for 15 minutes! I'm glad that everyone overall had a good halloween though.

You guys are lucky that it was so warm on halloween, it snowed the day before halloween and now its always in the 20s and 30s and this week its supposed to get down to the single digits, im not excited for the winter and the dark and the cold, but mostly the cold.

   Well Im glad you guys had such a wonderful week and stayed busy, and hopefully this week is even better for you guys! Love you guys!

 Love Elder Ashton Roney