The General Epistle of Samuel: The General Epistle of Samuel (Glad that week is over)‏

This week I think takes the cake for the least productive. We set an all time low (at least for me) by only teaching seven total lessons. That was rough. It took us until Sunday evening to finally find someone to teach. We were knocking a few doors and came across this Indian family. I figured they were Hindu but as soon as we walked into the house after offering a Christmas message we found out they were very much Christian. They had their house decked out for Christmas with stuff about Jesus all over the place. The father spoke little English but was absolutely beside himself that we were there to teach them more about Jesus Christ. We taught a simple lesson about the restoration and baptism and invited them to be baptized. They accepted and we have set an appointment to return and teach more! Despite an absolutely rough week the Lord was willing to bless us for persevering and working until the end.

This week will be a bit hectic. Today we are just emailing and then it is a normal work day. Tomorrow is a normal work day as well but we have district meeting in Chelmsford so that will be great to see those missionaries before Christmas. Then we have district meeting here in Colchester Wednesday morning with the missionaries around here. We'll do some caroling at a care home to make some old people happy as well. Then we have dinner with some members and the carol service at the chapel. Christmas our plans so far are; get up at five and begin the movie marathon at the chapel. We have invited all the YSA that are here for university that aren't going home for Christmas to join us so there will be a good group there. Then we are having dinner with the bishops family. We'll stop by a few other people before we skype in the evening. We have had multiple offers

by members to skype so getting that arranged won't be a problem. You'll see me at noon on Thursday! Boxing day (friday) we are going to just chill. It is our P-day so we are going to catch up on all the sleep we lost this year. We have dinner with a member that evening as well so that will be great. Google "bubble and squeak" and tell me what you think of that. I don't think that is what we'll be eating though. Saturday is MLC so we will recap the year and make plans for 2015 at that meeting. We will be busy but the Christmas season will be great! I love you all!!!

Love,

Elder Dalton

P.S. Quote of the week:

Me: "Would you like to look at a website about Christmas?"

Woman at the door: "No, I already know all the websites on the internet."
Me. "....."