Email Dec 3 2012

Good to know that all the college stuff is taken care of. Well first off I guess I will write about transfers... I’m staying! But sadly Elder H is leaving. It wasn’t really unexpected though because he has been in this ward for 9 months. I’m very anxious to find out who my companion is. Usually there is just a small variety of choices for zone leaders but for some reason every zone leader companionship is changing except for 1 that means that I have 7 people who could possibly be my companion. Some are exciting and others not so much. Kind of anxious because I don’t like getting new companions (I can’t wait to get married and have the last companion forever ;) haha )

 We had a pretty good week. I went on exchanges with Elder M on Tuesday and we taught 3 lessons and got 1 new investigator who is super super solid! I’ve talked a little about him and this was the first time we got to teach him. On Sunday our investigator’s grabbed me and said. "Elder He's ready. Talk about it with him on Tuesday." So we are going to have a baptism in this ward before the year is done! The only one so far! He has already been coming to church for about 9 weeks so church is no problem we just have to teach him now and baptize him! Also on Tuesday we taught W and she said she had been thinking a lot about baptism and wants to get baptized when she gets back from winter break. I was a little worried about that but for the last week of her winter break she will be at her boyfriend’s home with his family and they are all members so she will have a lot of support from that! Things are rolling forward and hopefully will go faster and faster!

 We also got to have a cool experience this morning and go help our ward clean the temple! They do such a thorough job at it! It was really funny because the temple is locked and so we rang the bell for a worker to let us in and the man who let us in was Brother Garcia from Chaffey ward! That is where we had Thanksgiving dinner last year! I also saw Brother Nielsen, our ward mission leader in Big Bear! It was super cool to see them all and we got some good pictures outside the temple.