Hello Everyone,

So this week was a lot of fun!  I forgot to mention the mission christmas party that we had last week!  We had the gallup zone and the chinle zone get together and we had a fun little christmas party!  President and Sister Batt were there we had a little meeting in the chapel to start and then we went into the gym and started to play games!  It was a good time and a lot of fun i got to see some elders that i hadnt seen for a while there!  I had a blast!  So then this week on sunday me and Elder David walked into church and the second councellor in the brach presidency told us we were going to be speaking today haha that was a fun experience haha of course me being senior companion Elder David made me go last haha but we both gave great talks on christmas and it was a lot of fun! I also  had the opportunity this week to go to Tohlekai on exchanges!  Tohlekai is a little rez town right barely above gallup! I got to go with Elder Lowe down there while Elder Vickers came to Sheep Springs!  I love Elder Lowe and Elder Vickers they just understand exactly how to be a missionary they work hard and they have a lot of fun while they are doing it!  I love those two Elders!  Me and Elder Lowe had a great day!  It was freezing down there that day because it had just snowed that morning!  We had a full day tracting in the mud driving in the mud and almost getting stuck in the mud it was a blast! Elder Lowe is from Preston, ID so me and him get along great!  I love Idaho missionaries haha Anyway that exchange was great and we both learned a lot! Me and Elder David have stared this new thing where we have been going to the senior citizens center ever friday it is where all the seniors get together and just hang out all day and then they go back home anyway so this week we went and shared the christmas story with them it is so funny how much those old ladies love us!  We got done with the message and some of the ladies dont speak any english they only speak navajo so they didnt understand it so on lady stood up and started shouting SING, SING, SING haha before we knew it all of them were shouting it was like a riot it was so funny!  So we started singing silent night and joy to the world and jingle bells haha it was so fun they started to sing with us!  We have already seen some great things come from going to the senior center we ask a lot of the old ladies if we can chop there wood and then we go to there house and they introduce us to a lot of there families so then we can meet and teach more people it has been great!  It was a fun week im excited for christmas!  Anyway i hope you all have a great christmas take care and have fun!

Love Elder Rushton