Heyo all yawl’s! It's been a pretty eventful week this week, starting off with having Liam Winfield come out to do another mini-mission with us. It was really cool, but unlike last time where it was just massive amounts of teaching appointments everywhere, it was nothing but tracting everywhere, all day. On Wednesday when we tracted there was this kid riding his bike around the general area we tracted, and throughout the day he passed us probably about six or seven times, so it was about time we stopped him to talk to him. Since it was school holidays last week there was no school, and when we stopped to talk to him he said he was really curious as to what we were doing all day, and for how much he was on his bike we could say the same. His name is Paul, and he's about 15 years old and has really been looking to know who Jesus Christ is and is looking for a change in lifestyle. He talks about how he'll cuss every now and again just to please friends, but he doesn't really like it. We eventually talked to the parents and they are more than fine with us teaching him, and when we invited him to Wednesday night youth groups he was more than willing to sign up for them, and his dad said he would even drive him to them. We're meeting again with him this Wednesday, and he shows a lot of potential in gospel growth. It's awesome that we found him, especially since Liam was with us. Thursday, our second and last day of the mini mission, was a bit different because Elder Casil came down with a cold, so we had to stay inside most of the day so that he could rest. The weather went through a sudden cold shock and now it's like 50 - 60 degrees on average, so now winter is here.

Zone P-Day (We just played basketball all day)

Ozzi and Rawry are slowly going less active, and that's entirely their inactive dad's fault. He wants them to play footie on Sundays during church and is putting a load of trash in their minds that they don't have to go to church to be "Christians". Well that sounds like a load of Korrihor to me! But yeah, they're still pretty split on what to do. At least, it seems that way, but from the looks of it they're going to let footie win over. I really hope not, but I feel like Casil and I have done all we can do with them to help them to stay active. We'll keep teaching them for sure though.

Ian is still being a boss about his baptism, and he's still continually smashing through the Book of Mormon like it's child's play. He says after he finishes it he's going to read it again and cross reference it with all of the Book of Mormon/Bible references listed on the bottom of the pages so that he can get a more in depth knowledge of the Book of Mormon and about Jesus. He says that every time the Book of Mormon mentions Jesus, he just eats it up and loves it. Knowledge hungry, this guy is. But it's great! He is so ready to become a member. I mean, even during the singing in sacrament meeting he just reads the words out loud and does his best to follow the timing because he's never heard of any of these songs before, but he is trying so hard! He also came to ALL the sessions of General Conference, wearing his really nice gray suit to all of them, and he particularly enjoyed the priesthood session and the Saturday afternoon session (one of his favorite talks was from Jeffrey R Holland because he thought the picture of the dinosaur was pretty funny). Ian is more than ready to be baptized to say the least.

General Conference was amazing though! I always love General Conference, because it's a time to receive correction and counsel from those who are ordained by God to give it, and also a time to receive encouragement and enlightenment. My favorite talks of all of it were by Gary E Stevenson about the keys of the priesthood, Kevin R Duncan, Russell M. Nelson, Stephen W. Owen, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, and by D. Todd Christofferson. I really liked Christoffersons talk on fatherhood because I am always seriously trying to improve who I am so that way I can be the greatest father and husband I can be to my future children and my wife, because I have come to the great realization that my family is the greatest earthly treasure God can give to me, or to anyone.

Julie and her family. They're some of the Winfield's friends 

that we've been teaching lately, They are great but 

they're really hard to catch up with

But that's about it everyone. Transfers are next week, and I'm pretty sure that I'm leaving next transfer as sad as it is, and as much as I don't want to go and would love to stay here with this amazing ward and to help Ian gain comfort in becoming a new member, I know that the more that I fall in love with an area, the higher the chances are that I'll get ripped from it. And plus, I had a pretty realistic dream a few nights ago that I'm moving. Hopefully that isn't some kind of vision, but at the same time... yeah...Anyways, love you all everyone, and I hope that you have another fantastic week. This is the last week of this transfer, so next week we'll be able to know who makes the cut. Love you all, hope the best for you, and as always, God be with you till we meet again.

Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Proverbs 12: 1-3