Dec 7

Dad:

Elder Feidler 

I hope you have had a great week!   You are not missing much here. Just another week of work and work. This coming week is my work Christmas lunch at a Mexican food place. I'm looking forward to that. Today was a good day at church. Myka plays at our feet during sacrament and we are just happy.

Zack and Maddie are with your mom this weekend. 

I bought 22 cars yesterday. They were all Minis!  

I don't think we will be driving them.  I bet Zack and Maddie wish we could. The jeep has been having problems. A week ago the starter quit working so they have been push starting it everyday.  Then Friday Zack left the fog lights on all day and the battery was completely dead. We had to jump start and charge it for a while in the school parking lot and then push start it. The new charger should be here on Tuesday. 

Looks like your package finally made it to you after a week and a half!  Was supposed to be a two day delivery. 

Is there anything you need for Christmas?  We have no idea what to get you. You will be home 3 months and a couple of weeks after it. 

I plan to drive out with you to college and fly back home. Does that sound ok?  

Keep working hard and teach with the spirit!  Work with the ward council to get the members involved. We have a ward Christmas breakfast this coming Saturday. Last night we went to President Scott's house for their daughter's mission farewell. They have one leaving for Brazil and in February one is coming home. Crazy how many people are out on missions. 

We love and miss you lots!

Love, 

Dad

Graham:

Family,

What a great past week it has been! We have lessons set up with 4 new potentials this week that we met last week. Jessica is holding strong at 11 days not smoking. We had a ward Christmas dinner / program Saturday night. Jessica invited her parent and they brought her. It was a huge step for them because they aren't too religious. They had a great time and are way proud of Jessica for no longer smoking. One of the members brought one of their employees. He's a Jr in high school. Half way through the show he asked the member how he can become a Mormon. Right after the show the member brought him up to us and we now have a lesson set up with him this week. We taught 2 other new people last week but aren't counting them as investigators until we teach some more lessons to them. It's a new rule our mission president started, to make our lesson-to-baptism ratio look better to the missionary department. Also at the Christmas dinner we had 4 less active families come and one of our recent converts brought her parents who have been anti towards the church. They loved the Christmas dinner and the members of the ward suffocated them with fellowship! :)

The new Wal-Mart in town opened Wednesday. We ran inside for lunch to check it out. When we checked out at the top of our receipt was Br. Albuagh' name because he's the store manager. It's been crazy busy there and every night there are search lights in the sky for the new Wal-Mart.

Tomorrow we are spending most of the day at a conference with a seventy Elder Cardon. Should be good! We also might get our new car tomorrow. 215 Ford Fusion! Spoiled missionaries... I know. haha

Christmas List:

stuff for college?

Give your ward missionaries a gift card to a restaurant?

Ask them who is struggling this year and can't afford presents for their families?

I don't need anything else for my mission. My Shoes are pretty badly worn but they will hold together until April. I don't want to ruin another pair of shoes before I go home.

Hope this list helps.

Love and miss ya'll

Elder Graham Feidler