You'll never guess

You will never guess who my new companion is. It's Elder Eric Jones he was one of the river guides with Brett and I in Jackson Hole. We've been talking river stories for the past week straight and now we will have even more stories to talk about later.

As for what I need. To be honest I don't really need anything. Wait that was a lie. We are planning to get together as a Zone on Christmas and we are going to do a white elephant exchange and I was wondering if you could send me a copy of that story that Dad reads for passing presents around. You know the left, left, left, right, left thing. As for CD's the answer is yes. We can listen to Mormon Tabernacle Choir, oh and that song that they sang for the Christmas devotional with the organ and the orchestra was amazing. We are also allowed to listen to any other artists that sing church hymns and that would be awesome to have but there is also the new Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration movie that just got released on DVD. I think that it is titled: The Doctrine and Covenants or something like that, it is a set.
So I don't care who you are but that story about Brian is pretty funny. Let him know that it doesn't matter how long it takes thought what matters is that you get it eventually, right, I think that is how it works doesn't it?
So you mentioned cold weather and you definitely hit it right on the head. It was 8 degrees this morning but it is all good because I think that I am ready for it but I guess it wouldn't , matter whether I'm ready or not because it is here.

So as for a quick run down of the week. It snowed for the first time this winter. Also we had Zone Leader Council this week and we talked about a lot of stuff. We set our baptismal goal for the month at 21. It has been interesting at how the missionary work is becoming more effective, even though our month goals have been going down our percentage of baptized investigators with a date is going up. Last month there were 22 people that got baptized and that was 60% of the baptismal dates set and if we meet our goal this month we will have baptized 73% of those who set a date. It really excites me for all of these miracles to happen and it really is a blessing to have a zone leaders eye view of it all. The Lords work really is going forward and more people are gaining a stronger conversion so that they can endure to the end.

I will admit though that it has been hard this week. When we set our Zone baptismal goal of three we had 6 investigators with a baptismal date in our zone and after last night we now only have 1. Going through trials is hard and they make you question yourself but at the same time we must have faith that everything will work out and that the Lord knows what to do.

Well that is all I got for now but thank you for everything. I love you all and have a wonderful week.
Elder Nelson