Week 76 - Our Christmas Tree!

Our Christmas Tree!

Heylo everybody, sorry the last two weeks I've sucked at writing, but I'm gonna try and get things together right now.

So to start off this letter, there's a family in the ward here that we are in that my comp and I love named the Valledares, and they are just a hoot. We eat with them on Sunday nights every week, and its always the highlight of the week for sure. WELL the youngest kid of this family is named Yohan, and hes a wild little 11 year old but makes us laugh so much. A few months ago his mom had planned and bought decorations for a soccer themed birthday party for this kis. Well one day I noticed she was putting the decorations for sale in her store and I asked what was up. She told me that the Party for her kid was CANCELED because he did not behave himself. I was taken back to when I was a kid and my parents would threaten that if we fought in the long car rides to Florida to go to Disney World, they would "turn this car around", empty type of threat, but turns out she was serious. Maybe the kid talked back or didn't clean his room? nope. Turns out he spent $240 US Dollars on a game on his moms phone to get clothes for his character. I don't know how many young adults with young kids are reading this, but this is about the funniest thing I have ever witnessed in my life, and had to share.

This last weekend we had two of our young investigators that we have been teaching for the last 4 months took the decision to be baptized! The large majority of their family are members, but they are both orphans and live with there grandma who has been inactive in visiting the church for the last few years. Well we have been working really hard with this family to activate them, and we got the permission to baptized her grand kids, and she started coming to church again! Pretty Dope

This week we started our program for Light the World, and have been doing a bunch of Family home evenings and have found a ton of people. I just wanna share my testimony that I love being a missionary and representative of Jesus Christ. I'm a happier person because of this gospel, and I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the church of Christ himself in these our days. I'm a happy person.

Love you all!!

Elder Butler