Hi
everyone, December
8, 2014
Sorry I'm kind of loading you guys
up with emails but there was one thing I forgot to add to my weekly
letter!
I got the mail from our ward's
primary! I loved the pictures, they were wonderful and I loved Bree's drawing
especially! I have pictures with them attached to this email! I love you guys
so much and I love our ward too!
Oh yeah, we also only had snow for
like 2 days back in November! It hasn't snowed yet in December or since the few
days of snow we had! People here are freaking out because there isn't any snow,
and the weather is actually pretty nice down here! My companion is still cold
but that's because he's from Honduras, I'm basically sun tanning in this
weather- haha!
It's been awesome! I can't wait for Christmas so I can talk to you guys again,
I love you both so much!
Thanks for the comments from Rhonda
and Bryce! I hope it's a boy, make sure that they know that they should name
him Russell, after Russell Wilson! I mean him and Aaron Rodgers are the best
QB's in the league right? So a great name for a boy would be Russell Aaron
Strate! There ya go! Haha good luck to them I hope they have a great Christmas
season! Haha the 49ers suck so bad!!!! HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! The Raiders are so bad
too!!!! HAHAHA! That's hilarious!
Dad, Sounds like you deserve a
transfer haha, you've been in the same area for 18 months as a high councilman
in Spring Coulee. If I end up serving 18 months here in Bountiful I'd probably
want a transfer too lol. We have 7 people on date right now for baptism, all
for December 27th and January 3rd. They're all progressing and we should have
at least 1 more on date by the end of this week! Things are going good! The
members are so cool in our ward, they're always willing to come out and work
with us, which makes our job a heck of a lot easier haha! Love you Dad!
This week was awesome! We have a lot
of investigators on date for December 27th and January 3rd! We just need to
help them be ready for those days, so we've been teaching them a lot and trying
our best to help them be prepared to accept the covenant that comes with
baptism!
We took 5 of our investigators to
the "Luz de las Naciones" Spanish event this weekend at temple
square/conference center in Salt Lake City! It was incredible, they have
performances from tons of different Hispanic countries! When the Hondurian
performance came, my companion was going crazy! It was so cool to watch haha! I
have tons of pictures from it so you guys can see some it of too! Bear with me
though because we were seated pretty far away and I was taking pictures of
people dancing and stuff like that, so the pictures aren't the best quality but
I tried my best! Our investigators loved it! One of our investigators named
Israel Guadarrama was clapping and cheering the whole time! My favorite one was
the Mexican one, they had a massive and I mean MASSIVE pinata that they used
with it! It was so cool!
Our investigators are progressing
nicely, they're all super cool people and I love working with them! Yesterday
we ate dinner with an investigator and she is super excited to be baptized
eventually! She made us lasagna too, and that made me very happy haha!
Seahawks continue to dominate, I'm
telling you guys it's going to be a Seahawks vs. Packers NFC Championship game
and whoever wins will win the Super Bowl! Niners suck so that's awesome news
haha! I love hearing about sports from members and some of our investigators,
but the joy I receive when someone accepts the restored gospel and the
invitation to be baptized is far greater! Elder Berrios and I are doing awesome
and our companionship is strong, we've been in great unity lately!
I love all of you and I can't wait
to continue serving the Lord this week!
Love,
Elder Derek Strate
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