Hello Everyone,

So this week was a lot of fun!  New Years was fun to celebrate we had 3 people feed us that day so we were super stuffed but it was nice of them to think of us on new years day!  It was weird we just woke up like it was any other day and then realized dang today is 2015!  Anyway i remember way back when i was walking into the MTC and thinking i was not going to be getting home unil 2015 it seemed so far away but now its here and its flying bye!  So this week honestly we chopped a tone of wood!  My axe has definately been worn back in now haha i cant believe how well it has been holding up for how many time we have chopped wood!  Anyway we had a cool story we were going to visit a family that lives way up in the mountain its about 10 miles back off the main road i love going to there house because only there immediate family lives up there in what they call there compound anyway on our way up we pass a house and outside we see two old ladies probably in there 60's outside  chopping wood and so we put the truck in park and go out and talk to them they said that they are the only ones that live there and that there cousin brother hasnt come by for a whole months and they have to chop wood for themselves!  So we start chopping wood we probably chopped wood for a good 2 hours for them we got those ladies enough wood to last them a month so they were very happy anyway when we were all done the ladies came running out and told us there there 91 year old mom had just had surgery and that she was very sick and they asked us if we could give her a blessing!  So we did come to find out all those ladies that were in that house were all members!  They just hadnt been to church since they had gone on the placement program!  It was awesome finding a family like that and to see how the lord works i know that chopping wood  was exactly what we needed to do to win there hearts!  I love reading the story of ammon that is exactly what he did is he won the peoples hearts through service and that is trully where i have seen the most miracles come from on my mission!  Anyway things are great we had a great week and i hope you all have a great week as well and a happy 2015!

Love Elder Rushton