Received Mon, Dec 28, 2009

Dear Family,

The whole story about trying to leave for Utah but running into all those problems was funny, but at the same time, I’m sure it was pretty frustrating. It will be a good story in the future though. That is pretty exciting that Steven’s wedding is already about to happen…that came up pretty fast. You will have to give me a full recap. Zak and Quinn will definitely have to go to Tucano’s some other time. It is definitely my favorite restaurant.

Well there is not too much to update on here. It was fun being able to talk on Friday. I thought about a lot of things before hand to talk about, but completely forgot about everything when I called. Its a weird feeling trying to talk about whats been going on for the past year and a half in only 40 minutes. I guess all that really matters is to know that everyone is doing good and were happy.

We definitely have a lot of work to do here in League City though. This last week has been kind of a difficult one with Christmas and our zone conference and my companion got sick, so were hoping for a good week this week. We honestly don’t have much of a teaching pool. It seems like the missionaries who have been in this area have been going to the same people over and over again for the past 10 months and they are getting nowhere. So hopefully we can find some new people.

I guess I will tell you a little more about my companion. Like I said, he is named Elder Roberts and he's from the San Francisco area. He is one of those guys who just taaaalks and talk and talk loud and all the time. It is so over the top sometimes it makes me laugh. He is definitely a people person though. He is good at talking to people and getting them to like us. We are definitely working on working together though. I guess with all his last companions they would just jump in and kind of cut each other off when they would want to say something. That is definitely not a very smooth way to do things, so we’ve talked about that and our teaching has gotten much better.

One thing I’ve learned is that in order to have powerful teaching, you and your companion absolutely have to work well together. A lot of times that won’t come naturally, so you have to talk about it, figure it out, and probably change/sacrifice a few things to make it work. It took me a little while to figure that out, but it makes things a lot easier. I think we will have a good time together.

Ok that’s really about all I have for this week. Hopefully I have some good updates for next week. I know you guys will. I love you all and I hope everyone has a great time at Steven’s wedding!

Love,
Chase