December 14-20th 2015

Monday - today was a great day!! We had district P-Day and it was so
much fun!! The sisters brought a bunch of food and we ate it and all of
us almost threw up. Hahaha it was spaghetti, m&ms, syrup, pop tarts,
coco, it was gross. We had to eat it with our hands haha after that,
we went and sang Christmas carols to a rehab center and the hospital.
Our friendships grew so much and we had a great day. So awesome. Elder
Millet and Pace and I taught Dawn the plan of salvation and she isn't
getting any better from her disease. So very sad. But she's willing to
get baptized which is awesome!!

Tuesday - cool day, it snowed and we taught Genaro again, we extended
baptism but he hasn't 100% committed. It's about a 75% so far haha we
taught a dude named Aska who has a huge knowledge of Christ.  we walked,

 It was cold,and then we met up with the sister training leaders to plan
for a conference thing that's happening on Thursday. Love those
sisters, they are so much fun haha kinda a weird day today so not much
happened. A lot of walking. Not feeling to good so please send lots of
love my way. Love you all and hope to hear from you!

Wednesday - good day. We walked and had some success. We taught Joe
today and played a little guitar and wrote a song about Jesus hahaha
he's solid, he's learning slowly, but understands it all. He's doing
awesome. Had a amazing dinner with the Gambles and their 5 year old
daughter Christine reminds me of Rachel haha she instantly called me a
dork. She's on the shy side, but she sneaks peaks and when she does, I
caught her and she smiled and we did that for about an hour haha so
cute! We also taught dawn today, she's having more success getting
feeling in her arms, she's pretty much paralyzed from the neck down
from her disease, but she's so ready to be baptized.

Thursday - we drove down to zone meeting today, bright and early at
5AM. It was such a spiritual and amazing conference!! I really felt
the spirit! We got a new mission vision for the year 2016, had some
special songs sang by the missionaries and President Stoker's testimony
I almost cried. He's getting replaced in July and the other mission
president and wife has already been assigned, now it's a training
thing until they are set apart. I love the Stokers and I'm going to
miss them, also, Elder Crockett is going home in a week and that was a
little hard saying goodbye, awesome and humble dude and he's gonna be
an awesome RM. Thank you Firgrove Young Women and Emily Wells for

 sending me the package to get in the Christmas spirit!! Hope you guys are
doing great!! Love ya!!

Friday - the snow has all melted. Again.. People are saying its
winding up. Like a baseball game, the batter is winding up for the
hit. Come January, the weather says it's supposed to hit hard. Really
hard 😅 not much teaching, most of our appointments fell through. Not
a huge productive day, which is weird because Bangor is the busiest
area in the mission so far. Hopefully tomorrow will be better

Saturday - today was a crazy day. We tracted and went into downtown
Bangor and met some cool and not so cool people haha we taught a man
named Robert Palmer and he talked our ears off, sewed them back on re-
talked them off about 6 times haha that dude talks like crazy. We
asked him a simple question like "how has God helped you" and he went
off about corporations, politics, WWII, slavery and just a bunch of
nonsense haha but we still where able to squeeze in some lessons and
hopefully we where able to get the message across. We went to the ward
Christmas party and I got to meet Taylor Hymus, who just got back from
his mission Tuesday from salt lake east mission, such a cool dude,
he's gonna go on splits with us this next week and a half or so. We
also had a fire at the ward building. Someone left some plastic in the
stove and it burned, fire department came and I was able to talk to a
few of them about what it's like to be a firefighter. Talked with the
truck driver, the firefighter paramedic and a retired smoke jumper.
Awesome guys, the 3 I talked to where in Washington when the fires
where happening in the eastern part of the state and I told them I was
from there and they gave me a hug and said be strong, it's hard being
from your family and loved ones, but it's worth every second when you
get back. Awesome. Star Wars came out today!!! Someone tell me how it
was!!!! Elder Shupe is talking to Elder Millet about it (Because he
went home over a month ago) and Elder Millet is flipping out haha we
went on splits that night with brother Bernatche and that man can get
anything to laugh haha but we shared marriage with chris and Bro
Bernatches testimony about marriage was truly amazing!! Really felt
the spirit but Chris is still struggling with his own beliefs.

Sunday - sacrament meeting was amazing! Truly felt the spirit and the
songs where spiritual, talks where amazing. It was a wonderful day at
church, wish it was longer today haha we taught Silvia, love her,
sweet little 8 year old girl haha and we saw her at church!!! I was so
happy!!!! We also went to dinner at the Wilkersons and he served a
mission in Mexico and Seattle, pretty awesome talking about home. I
miss it, then we taught Audrey and saw Zac. Pretty productive day
today.

Pictures from their Zone Conference. Matt and Elder Crockett (an AP he got close with) and His district in ugly christmas sweaters