Happy New Year!

First off, thanks to everyone for the gifts this year. Christmas was great. Coby, the watch is awesome. Thanks.

I know that this email is coming at a strange time, but with the holiday this week, our schedule was switched up, so we get to email today. It's kind of crazy.

Things aren't much different since last time. We are still just plugging along hoping that things will pick up again sometime soon. We've been meeting with a few of the ward members this week and asking them to "join in fasting and mighty prayer on behalf of the welfare of those who [know] not God." (Alma 6:6) Hopefully we can get some things going.

We had an interesting meeting with our investigator, Chris Shields, this week. He has been wanting to come to the church and check out the family history library, so we set up a meeting there. Chris was wanting to try and find some info on his grandparents and he needed to double check on the dates that he had. So, he called his birth mother, who apparently is "mentally unstable" to ask her about the dates needed. That was a really awkward conversation. He had her on speaker phone, and she didn't know she was on speaker phone. Well, she ended up going off on Chris when he told her he was at the Mormon church looking things up. "You were born Catholic, you were baptized Catholic, and you are going to die Catholic!" She said a bunch of other things as well, which has now made E. Mortenson and I really start wondering what the deal is with with Chris. There is a lot more history that we aren't aware of right now that is going to make our time working with Chris even more interesting. Fun...

Well. that's about it for the week. Hopefully everybody has a good New Years. Take care and I love you!

Elder Hammer