December 19th

      O.k. let's just get some little stuff outta the way! I have no idea what to expect going to a new country and all!!!!!  I have no idea how the work is going in Nivelles and I have no idea if they have something set up for the elders for Christmas!  However, I do know that it doesn't matter if I call you or you call me' and it doesn't even have to be on Christmas. It can be any day after that because families don't all have the same plans for Christmas! It does have to be reasonably close and we only get one call. I have no idea what the country codes are but  me and elder Fortuna have been calling each other and we have a plan! Y'all can tell me what you prefer to do and when me and elder Fortuna get in Belgium we can check emails really quick and confirm plans! This will enable us to figure out where we live and get to know whats going on there so we can tell you for sure what the plans are!    OK I am sending some pictures so hopefully they work on this stupid french computer!!!!  Ummmmmm this week was crazy! Elder Clawson was sick for half of the week and then I was sick the last half........not very effective to be sick on different days! I finally got fed up with doing nothing and told Elder Clawson that I could care less how sick we were," WE ARE GOING CONTACTING DANG IT!!!!"  And hey it was probably the most successful contacting I have had for a while! We met some clowns from San Francisco and talked to them for a while and got their email address! One of the guys said he'd been baptized Mormon before but he doesn't think he could be Mormon again cause he is bi-sexual.......yeah....well people can change ahaha! We also ran into a lady from Congo and after we talked for awhile she randomly said she wanted to know where are church was so she could come!! It was crazy! OH, we have also had some really awesome lessons with Alex lately!!! I don't know if you remember who he was, but he was born Muslim and he decided that he wanted nothing to do with that, met the missionaries (elder Mckay and Brady) but never really had to much time with anyone until me and elder Crump, and later elder Clawson came. But since then he has been taught the restoration a few times, (cause he kept thinking that the church belonged to Joseph Smith.....and was even cool with that but .....still not OK so we clarified that a few times), and most of everything else, and he just loved everything! The biggest thing was that we couldn't get him to church, but he came yesterday and absolutely loved it. He told all the members he would come in the next weeks to come! He is such a champ and has had SO many trials and also has struggled to keep a job! But his faith in Christ is ....amazing I wish you could meet him! He will definitely be baptized he has already expressed that and says that he knows that this is Gods church! He just wants to learn a little bit more! Well I hope all of y'all are just so pumped for Christmas! I have not been writing so much lately because the post freezes during Christmas here and it is ALREADY TERRIBLE so I am sorry you have not gotten much letters, but don't worry I don't get much either so we are all in the same boat, hehehe! But  I will start writing every week again soon! Oh! Give Joe a big hello for me will ya! Tell him he is my hero and that he is really gunna rock his mission cause he is already a super elder in my eyes! His papers might be a hassle but God knows when he needs him to serve and whenever he gets his call is exactly when he needs it, and I am SO SUPER STOKED FOR HIM P.S. He should go to Paris........but that is me just being selfish ,so he will go where ever he is needed!