Sounds Like The Holiday Season Is In Full Swing

Dear Family & Friends,

Sounds like the Holiday season is in full swing.  I sure hope you are having a great time together.

Tell Peter Coe he is going to love it out there.  I am so glad to hear of so many going on missions.  How many are from our ward right now?

By the way did you get a letter from me and a bunch more to give out to people in the mail this last week?

Last week and this week always move really fast with planning transfers, arrivals, departures, etc.  I will be an assistant for at least another little while.  Elder Metcalf just got assigned to train 2 Elders going to Peru but are waiting on Visa's before they can go.  One is fluent in Spanish so he will train the other Elder in Spanish while Elder Metcalf trains them both to be a missionary.  That was a fun day learning about all that.  Elder Metcalf is super excited to train again.  My new companion is named Elder Skalla.  You might remember him from when I served in Cuyahoga Falls.  He came out at the transfer after mine and served in the same ward as I did for 3 months.  (Tallmadge Ward)  We have been training him the last couple days on our assignments as assistants.  We are having a great time.  I am excited to serve with Elder Skalla, we will have great experiences together.

This next week Elder Myles Gray gets here.  I will be welcoming him into the mission.  It will be great to see him.  We'll see if he recognizes me though.  By the way you can tell Elder Berg's mom that he has a great companion coming his way and is going to love his time serving this holiday season.  We have some awesome trainers this transfer.  Plus, they will be talking to their missionaries next week.  And we all know how fast weeks go around here.

This last week a less active family we are helping to get to the Temple baptized their 8 year old daughter and is excited to get back into the full swing of things by becoming active in the Gospel and the Church.  We have several other families who are excited to prepare to go to the temple, as well as more who we are planning on having invited to prepare to return or go for the first time.  I remember that when this was the focus, along with current investigators that a powerful spirit enters a ward and causes great miracles to occur.  Things are starting to pick up little by little as we continue exercising faith and working hard to bring about our Heavenly Fathers purposes in this area. 

Well I got to get going.  I pray you all have a fun and safe week this week.

Love,

Elder Weaver