Well this week was another great week being a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On tuesday we had a special visitor come to district meeting so that she could tell us about the nativity exhibit they are having at the stake center!!!!!!! she gave us a bunch of invitations to pass out to people and she told us all about it and it looks like it is going to be great!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wonder why we dont do that in newport, its a HUGE thing here in texas!!!!!!!!!!! Then on wednesday we got to meet with John and he is doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We showed up at his house and he had a brand spanking new quad sitting on his table and i started freaking out because he bought his own quad and that is definitely a good sign!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he then told us that he had something really important to tell to us and guess what?!?!?!?!!? he told us that he wants to be a member of the church!!!!!!!!!!!!! i started freaking out and i think that i got a little too excited!!!!!!!!!! I am just so excited for john because we have been teaching him so much and he has been progressing so greatly and he finally decided that he wants to become a member!!!!!!!!!!!! then after that we met with Laura and she is doing just great also!!!!!!!!!! We gave her a triple combination because she really wanted to read from the doctrine and covenants and the pearl of great price and she loves them already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also gave her a picture of Jesus Christs second coming and she hung it up right when you walk in the door to her apartment!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited for her to get baptized its just that she has a huge mega smoking problem!!!!!!!!!! She has been smoking for like 35 years or something!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have already tried to get her to quit twice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she doesnt have a car so she gives us all her cigarrettes and we throw them away and its basically impossible for her to buy anymore because she cant drive to the store!!!!!!!! so we went back to check on her the next day to see how she was doing and she opened the door and was like "elder tuma you are going to be mad at me" and i was like oh no laura what happened?!?!?!?!?!!?! she ended up finding cigarrette butts on the ground and smoking those in the morning,(barf in my mouth) her addiction is that bad!!!!!!!!!!!! i never realized that smoking can become such a bad addiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! her baptism date is set for the 18th so we need to get her to stop smoking by then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we met this lady named Christine and she is friends with Laura so we are gonna start teaching her also!!!!!!!! she definitely is ready for the gospel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So transfer calls were on saturday night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im staying here in the melissa ward and farmersville branch and elder sullenberger is leaving, he is going to an area called sulphur springs!!!!!!!! Its going to be so mega different without him here, we were together for 4 months, usually missionaries dont stay together that long!!!!!!!!! but im still in my first area!!!!!!!!!!!! my new companion is going to be elder clark!!!!!!!!!!!! i havent met him before but ill meet him tomorrow!!!!!!!!!! no one else in my district really knows anything about him, im sure that he is going to be great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesterday was stake conference and we got a new stake president and then after that we went over to a bunch of families houses so that elder sullenberger could say goodbye to them, it was way sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my week was great and i just love the gospel so much!!!!!!!!!!!!! The spirit can really change peoples lives and it is just so great!!!!!!!!! I hope all of you have an awesome thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i know that I am definitely going to have a great thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! make sure you remember to thank Heavenly Father for everything that you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gratitude unexpressed is ingratitude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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