Short and Sweet - January 7, 2013

Hello Family :)

New Year's day was incredible! The Gator Bowl was a lot of fun. A lot of missionaries went. We had nose bleeder seats, but it was really fun. Northwestern crushed them, and yes, it was really sloppy play. I was able to get a t-shirt at the game. (we watched the game because we knew Levi was there. We kept watching for a group of white shirts, but the seats were empty! I guess the camera never showed the nose bleed seats :) ... it was a blowout, but a cool game to attend. They had a blast and yes, it was all approved by the mission president! The Gator Bowl just happened to fall on their P-day.) 

Well, I am going to try to keep it short today because of the essays.

Janice's baptism was incredible. Elder Bushman and I sang a "special" musical number. We sang "Joseph Smiths First Prayer" to the tune of "In Humility, Our Savior". It was fun. The spirit was definitely there. Our zone was struggling finding the last few weeks. So, we decided to have a "Master Finding Friday". Our goal was to find 18 new investigators on that one day as a zone. We ended up finding 14 :) In Arlington, we found 5 new investigators. We had an incredible week of finding.

We met this man who said he played football in HS and had scholarships to Clemson and Florida. But, he decided not to go because of work. ALSO, his wife ran track and she said she ran a 10.3 100m??? (yeah, sprinters are like fishermen - they always run about 1-2 seconds faster than reality. Somehow, every time they tell the story, they get faster? How does that happen? :)  Is that even possible? She does look extremely athletic.

Anyway, we are really excited for all of these new investigators Heavenly Father has blessed us with :)

Yes, I did get a package from G and G Wise. I have been meaning to write them a letter but everything is so busy. They got me some Adidas socks that are super comfy. They also sent those Walnuts they make. I think they are walnuts? My companion and I ate them up in a day. They were good haha.

Anyways, sorry for the short email. Gotta Run

Love

Elder Wise