Hello Everyone,

So this week was awesome i enjoyed christmas so much!  On christmas eve we spent it out tracting probably for a good 4 to 5 ours!  I was not looking forward to it but we knew we had to be able to find some new people so we just went out and did it!  It was so cool we decided just to walk the road!  Now this wasnt just a short little road this was a good 5 to 6 mile road haha it was awesome we knocked on every door that we could find asking everyone if we could share a christmas message and almost everyone was friendly to us even if they told us no we still asked everyone if we could chop wood for them or do anything it was awesome!  It really showed me what the true way to spend christmas was it was lots of fun and the perfect service opportunities!  We found 5 really really good really cool investigators that day it was an awesome way to spend christmas eve a lot different then anything i would have ever done back home!  It used to be wake up late on christmas eve play video games and eat a big dinner now it was completely different and it was so awesome!  Christmas day was very cool too we took our presents over the the rogers our senior couples place and opened them in the morning!  Then we were able to skype our families i will admit that was really cool to see everyone but man was that weird haha It was good to see my whole family though!  It was weird too though cause my little bro cody wasnt talking like a little girl anymore haha his voice has changed haha nice bro! We had an awesome splits night we had a kid come out from the ward he is like 24 i think he is a really cool guy!  I could tell he was a little  nervous so i took him with me and elder maynard went out with his brother in law who was just there for the hollidays anyway we went out to two lessons together and man those lessons were awesome he was just as much a part of the lesson as we were!  Him  bearing his testimony was one of the most spiritual moments i have heard on my mission so far!  The way he testified that is was the book for the navajo poeple it was awesome! He said he had such a fun time!  I hope you all had a good christmas i love you all and wish a a happy new year!

Elder Rushton