Hey family,

Thanks for all the future packages, I'm pretty sure I'll be getting one today. Glad everything is ok with the Mollster, hope she's not causing too much trouble. Ya, the baptism was awesome, definitely one of the highlights of my mission.

We're going to get a Christmas tree too and put some hand made ornaments on it and stuff.

Ya it's getting pretty cold , just like he said it just rips right through you, but nothing I can't handle. Just means you can't do tracting without taking a break every 30 in or so because your chin is numb :) It still hasn't really snowed yet though, which is disappointing. When it does snow however its going to be a huge one, according to some old (probably a little looney, but not tooney) lady. I think we'll have an Oshkosh vs. Appleton district snowball fight.

So things on the missionary front are going ok. We have 5 progressing inv. right now, 2 of which are from Mexico; Oscar and Alma (yes she knows her name is in the B of M). They are really great people, but Alma doesn't speak a lick of English ('lu Mika' in Hmong, literally translated 'speak white american', learned that yesterday) so we have a couple from the ward who speak fluent spanish come and translate. The other 3 are a Hmong family (very rationally diverse here) who are coming back to the church/ kids being baptized. The Christmas devotional was great yesterday. Not a lot of members showed up (it was on cable) but we did have a cashier at a gas station we stop at to go to the bathroom come with her Mom. They said they had a really good time.

O in less exciting news, I hit my 18 month mark the other day, so now I need to burn some slaks. A missionary who just went home left some so no I won't be wasting anything, Dad.

Before I forget, I got to go on exchanges with the DL serving in .... ONEIDA! 3 really cool things happened. 1. I got to give a baptismal interview to a 9 year old girl named Abby. I told her I had a 9 year old sister named Abby and she thought that was cool. 2. I got to see some of the families I was close with; Cornelius', Sally (Scott was asleep with flu :( ), Bro. Reynolds etc. 3. The Cornelius' daughter who is on a mission is serving in our very own Frankfurt Germany International Ward :O I told them to tell her to say Hi to everyone who is still there for me. I mean really, what are the odds of that. Anyway, it was a really cool visit.

Go Steelers!

My ZL duties are going pretty good, lots of logistics stuff, like miles and numbers, but it's ok. I get to go to a lot of the different areas and get to know a lot of the Elders in the Zone, which I like a lot. We had a meeting in Neenah really early with the Stake Pres. and a High Councilman and stuff that was tiring, but thats ok. Ya A-town to GB is probably only a 30 min drive. I've spent the majority of my mission in the relatively small area of the 2 cities, which I couldn't love more.

Ok well we're going to go play a little B-Ball after Pooh Saan so I'll have a great week!

Love