11/30/14

HEY thats awesome! Congratulations! I like the idea tyler had that would be a funny picture.

We had a great Thanksgiving. We only had one family sign up for dinner that day so we were worried that we wouldn't have a lot to do. But we ended up doing service in the afternoon. It was a Brentwood Street Feast. They deep fried a lot of turkeys and had the traditional food there all for free for all of Brentwood. There was a lot of people there and they had free entertainment and they gave out free clothes to everyone and a lot of other food. We now have a fridge full of turkey and mash potato's. And we got some clothes. I just got a t-shirt and some super skinny jeans haha. I'm not a fan of skinny jeans but they were free so I just tried them out. Anyway after service we went to the dinner appointment that was scheduled and had some great food there. It was with a less active family, the husband by the end of our visit was playing Johnny Cash music. After that we were invited by the sister missionaries to go to some other members house, a part member family's house. And they had a lot of food there too! I was stuffed by the end of the night. So our thanksgiving went well. No throwing up which is good. 

Other then that we had a great week. We found 2 new investigators. One of them was from the former investigators list and another was a referral. The former investigator works at a care home so we teach her there. She is very nice but I'm not sure how much she will commit to do things yet.The other new investigator is Domingo, he works as a hotel front desk people person. concierge or what ever you call them. He is great and has talked with the missionaries for a long time now. The only problem that he has is that he is gay. So he doesn't really want to join the church but he loves talking with the missionaries. He's definitely seen God play a role in his life.

A big initiative the church is bringing out this Christmas season is He is the Gift. Go on to Christmas.mormon.org and you can see the video for yourself. The church has bought out the youtube front page and also screens in New York Time square to advertise this message. That's pretty expensive!

Good luck on the cruze I wish I could go too!

have a great week and stay safe.

Love,

Elder Ranquist