November 30, 2009

Ryan's Letter:

Subject: The final countdown! Merry Christmas!!


Dear Family & Friends
Another amazing week down for the records. I would say that we had an above average week with everything flowing pretty smoothly, except when Sister Humphreys, our mission nurse, weighed me and told me I was fat! Other than that everything was great. We have kicked off the Christmas season by listening to carols and we know that the world is preparing as well. Although I haven't seen any snow yet we do see quite a few animals out this time of year. Almost every night we have to dodge a deer or two on our way home. Then there was the possum, coyote, fox, and cougar I almost hit. Speaking of cougars, the family we had dinner with on saturday was watching the BYU-Utah game and I wonder how many of my relatives were watching that....
The Rosens are doing really great and we are looking forward to Nicholas's baptism towards Christmas. We are excited to be working with so many people preparing to return to church in both of our ward. Other than that though we really don't have very many people to teach since everyone is moving out of our high class area. But we are hopeful to find new people soon and we are asking everyone for referrals and we are definitely keeping busy.
The family that had signed up to feed us dinner last night had forgotten we were coming over until we showed up. Only the husband was home so he invited us in and told us he could come up with something. So we rolled up our sleeves and started cooking. We were about halfway through making the apple crisp when the wife walked through the front door. I wish you could have seen her face when she saw us cooking in her kitchen. Everything that could go wrong that night absolutely did go wrong while we were there. I wish I could tell you everything that happened but I have been sworn to secrecy and am only allowed to write them in my journal. She ended up making pancakes and waffles while I fried some ham and Elder Haines got the fruit and ice-cream ready. It was the BEST dinner I have ever had because it really made us feel like we were part of the family, and it was hilarious as we discovered one wrong thing after another.
Anyway, I hope you haad a good Thanksgiving and are ready for Christmas, the season is here!
Love Ya
Elder Allred