Now Go, And Be Golden: Can Anyone Say Twenty-Thirteen?

Happy freaking New Year, my loyal fan club! How's the good ol' two-zero-one-three going for ya'll?

This week has been a pretty interesting one, if I do say so myself. I can't believe a week has already passed since Christmas. Speaking of which, I will recount my Christmas tale to you now.

So, Christmas morning we got picked up to go over to our zone leaders' apartment. There were some pretty unpopular missionaries there as well, but our zone leaders are nice guys so they invited them to open presents with us. It was a pretty enjoyable morning. My folks gave me some really neat presents, because they are fairly nice people.

After that we went over to this family's house for breakfast, the Cornet/Talmadges. They are some really cool people. We ate some delicious pancakes with strawberries and vanilla ice cream on top. We played some Clue and had fun with them for a couple of hours. Good times were had for sure.

After that we went back home for a little bit to just chill. Then we went the Berg's house for dinner/lunch. They are a nice older couple who invited their family from the ward next door to eat with us. They made one of the best hams I have ever had.

When we were done there Elder Jackson and I went to the Smithson's, whose house we are living in, to call our dear old families! That was totally awesome. The highlight of the day for sure. The rest of the day we just hung out with some missionaries at our place. That's pretty much Christmas for ya.

So, the rest of the week:

We have actually started teaching Jesus and Leah again! Since last time I wrote home we have actually taught them three times! They are so awesome. We just barely taught them a few hours ago, and I've got to say that they are super prepared. I love teaching them, because whatever commitment we leave with them they accept and actually do. It is so rare to find people this prepared through tracting. We have reset his baptism date for the 19th, so I'm praying that he will get baptized then.

Recently my companion and I have started to try to get 5 contacts a day from tracting. We haven't gotten it once, but it hasn't been for the lack of trying. Tracting here is pretty not fun. Like people tell us that we don't believe in Jesus Christ and tell us some not nice things, but other than that I love tracting!

Yesterday was kinda neat. Our mission had a goal of getting 500 baptisms in 2012, and we reached it! We actually passed it and got somewhere around 525. So because of that we had a mission party. It was kind of a lame party, but it was cool seeing missionaries that I don't get to see all the time.

Well there's pretty much my last week of 2012. I bet mine was better than yours. I'll see all you guys next year!