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Monday, January 2, 2017


Hey everyone! How's it going? 

It is going to get pretty cold up here this coming week. The highs aren't going past 20. It has been pretty nice here this past week though. 35-40 degrees for the highs. Given, I am also in a car, and there are areas (including areas that have Sisters) that are walking or riding bikes. And we aren't even allowed to offer the sisters rides! I feel so bad.

We got some more snow today, only about 4-5 inches, so it is not very much. That amount is about the average snow they get here, or so I have been told. 

There has been a lot of fog recently too. But nothing compared to the Inversion that is about to come this January.

We got J (our golden investigator) to be baptized on January 28th!! We finally got him to commit to a date! It is so awesome. His father in law (or something like that, I don't remember) was a general authority recently. J will be moving on the 10th outside of the mission to Sandy, Utah. However, we got permision from President Hillier (our mission President) to teach him one more time outside of the mission, and to attend the baptism! Elder LeTerneau and I are super excited!! 

Other than that, there hasn't been much. We found a golden investigator family from Northern Iraq. The Qadir Family. Two of the kids are 21 and 18, and we don't know how old the parents are. The kids speak pretty good English, but the parents have to have the kids translate for them. They speak a language that hasn't been translated for the Book of Mormon yet too. We will see how that goes. 

‘Service is the finest exercise for the heart ever prescribed.’ 
Elder Jeffery R. Holland


-Élder Wilkes

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