Hello everyone,

So its hard to believe that this week is christmas!  To be honest it has flown by looking back!  Im excited for this week!  It has been so fun to be able to share the christmas message with everyone we visit!  We had a terrible day this last week seems like everything was going wrong!  We both woke up sick, we invited one of our investigators to a baptism in chinle and we get there and she didnt show up so we call her and she says she woke up sick and wasnt feeling well and wouldnt be able to make it!  Then were heading home and who do we see in chinle driving right past us? the same investigator that told us she was sick? haha we were so mad! Then a lot of other stuff happened i probably shouldnt say haha anyway out here on a mission i have notice when you have a TERRIBLE day if you try to put your self out there do something different, talk to someone you wouldnt have before, go knock on a door or too!  The lord always trys to make your day better anyway he can!  Me and elder maynard parked the truck and just decided to walk down this road about 3 miles long we had nothing to do a terrible day and just felt like walking it off i guess haha so we told ourselves to knock on every house we saw on that road of course there was only 4 houses on that road haha (welcome to the rez)  and of course only one person was home but honestly that one person we knocked on let us right in she looked so happy to see us we asked her if we could share a message about christmas with her it was awesome! She was the sweetest old lady she began to tell us she wasnt feeling well and had been sick for quite some time we were able to give her a preisthood blessing it was so awesome and it made our day so much better!  I trully believe when you have that bad day there are really people out there placed before us to make it better we just have to do something different to find them! 

So the funny story for the week is last week me and elder maynard are walking up to a house and out of no where the biggest chocolate lab came running up behind us and freeking bites me right in the butt cheek! Honestly it hurt so freeking bad i was on the ground with tears in my eyes! haha and right when i was on the ground the lady answered the freeking door haha it was so embarrassing and awkward haha we just started laughing so hard! That is really what a mission is about awkward moments like that! haha  It didnt peirce the skin so im good haha im not foaming at the mouth yet!  haha Anyway i love you guys have a good week and watch out for chocolate labs!  

Love Elder Rushton