Long time no talk!

Dec. 27, 2011

Hey again, it was great talking to you guys the other night. It seems like the phone calls are always too short, but I guess duty calls. I hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your Christmas with the relatives and that you'll still have a good time on the rest of your break. It snowed this morning pretty good for the first time in a few weeks. The car is such a nice luxury.

Not a lot of new things to talk about since Sunday. But a couple of sweet things have happened. I told you that we switched our Preparation Day to Thursday so we can go to the temple, so yesterday we had a normal proselyting day. And it was a good day, a good first day to start off the transfer too. We tracted around with some extra time we had and found an awesome family. Before we even said anything the lady told us to come in. We talked for 5 min or so inside her door and then she ended up inviting us to sit down at their table with her and her daughter to share more of what we had to started to share. Two other guys in the family didn't sit down to join us but were listening in the other room the whole time and were just as friendly. We went over the Restoration and answered a lot of their questions. Both her and her daughter haven't been baptized in any church they said and really got excited that we could help them with that, and tying that in with the Restoration just intensified their desire. It was sweet. We're going back today to see them and are planning on bringing some members with us who live close by to them.

We had another lesson yesterday with a lady who has been meeting with the missionaries for a few months sort of off and on. She's a friend of a family in the ward and has come to church a couple times. We made contact with her for the first time in a while on Sunday night and on the phone she said "we might have to stop the lessons for a bit, I'm not sure about the whole prophet thing", but we set up for the lesson yesterday and went with the member family she's friends with. it went really well, we stressed the importance of being sensitive to the spirit to get her answers and putting in her effort with real intent. we discussed the word of wisdom with her and explained how giving up smoking will help her get her answers and come closer to christ. she was really receptive and wants to quit. the family invited her and us over later this week to watch the Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration movie. so that was a huge step for her.

i think i told you how we handed out cookies for christmas on saturday and sunday, and how we were able to contact one guy from it who ended up coming to church the next day. he's solid, he was really close to baptism a few months ago but a lot of things came up and he got knocked off the path a little. so it was a big deal to even see him again. but we met with him this morning and it went really well. he's overcome all the things that came up and is even more solid because of it. he said he wants to commit to baptism again and follow through this time. so he's on date and back on track.

this past week in plymouth has been a blast. lots of sweet people here. and elder adamson and i are working hard to baptize everybody. we're even doing P-90X in the mornings. ....so ya.

oh and transfers are today, guess who's training this transfer? elder clark in burton. he's a stud, it's not unheard of but it's pretty uncommon for a missionary to start training right after he's been trained.

well i think that's it. thanks again for the packages and cards, and thanks to anyone else reading this who sent me something for the holiday. have a good week and a happy new year!

love, elder lamb