Mom!!!!! That is crazy!!!  I set a goal to finish the Book of Mormon by the end of my mission too!! It looks like we are about in the same spot!!  I have to do the same thing to be able to finish by February!!  7-8 pages a day!!  Which is really hard, cause I like to use my personal study time to study things for my investigators, but I've been finding time here and there.  As I've been reading through the Book of Mormon for the last time on my mission I've been highlighting any time God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost are mentioned.  It has been incredible.  I feel like it has truly helped me to keep the members of the Godhead at the focus of my study and I've been surprised just how much and how many various ways that these three being are addressed.  Such a testimony builder.

There are so many good things happening in our area right now!!  Isata Kamara and her niece Amirah who is 11 are getting baptized at the end of January!!  As well as our friend Jerry Davis!  They are awesome and we are teaching a lot of other people who need to be baptized like, Ana Lovo. So solid.  Yolanda Tilton, who just needs to have some faith.  Cristina, Who is a miracle waiting to happen.  and Chris Cuevas who is going to be baptized.  and so many more!! and I wish I could tell you about each and every one of them, but I have to much to say about each of them, and it would take forever.  We have been so blessed, the Lord has trusted us with so many of his elect sons and daughters!

I never did get those other letters from Christmas.. but it's all good.

It sounds like everyone is having a lot of fun!!! It sounds like a lot of fun stuff is coming up!!  I can definitely understand that you're excited for me to come home.  I am too, and I have realized that it's okay for me to be excited because I've also realized just how lucky I have been for the past 23ish months to be a full time representative of Jesus Christ.  I never really understood it before but I know with all of my heart that the time I've been given to serve the Lord with all of my heart, might, mind, and strength has been a privilege.  I haven't love every second of it, that's just honesty but I have loved every second from it, because from each and every second came the person I am today and the love I have for my Savior now and it's not done yet! I still have so much to learn!  There is more change through trial to be had in these last 50ish days.  More adversity to face and I'm so grateful for it, because of the person it has made me.. or rather the person He has made me.  I want you all to know how much I love my Savior and just how sure I am that God loves each and every one of his children.  There is no doubt of the pure love that God has for each and every one of us in my mind.  I love you all so very much, don't forget it. Have a great week!!!