Week 19

HI FAMILY!

This week has been great!! :)

I really dont have that much time so im sorry.. But this will be short!

Delorus.. Is not going to be baptized.. She thinks our church has to many "rules and regulations" and all kinds of stuff.. She was so close.. And it breaks my heart but she is still an awesome little lady and i love her! Sometimes when people excersize their agency it hurts.. Really bad! But i've found out that we can have whatever attitude we choose to have at ANY situation that is placed in front of us! Thats the great thing about having agency! We did everything we possibly could with Delorus and she chose to not to do what she knew she needed too! Which is sad! But thats just the way it is!

Hadassah is doing great! She is soo funny! She's excited to be baptized on Saturday! There are a few things that could hold her back.. Unfortunately her dad is NOT happy with what we're doing.. But he has no say! But we dont want to cause family issues.. So we left it up to Mary, Hadassah's mom.. So PLEASE pray for Hadassah. We've worked so hard to get to this point!

Skyler is soo solid! he is a rrealllyy awesome kid. The lord has definately prepared him and he is already asking the bishop about going on a mission and everything! ITs amazing! Its crazy to think about the lives that will be changed by missionary work! Im excited to see how everything works out!

Im excited for saturday! We have 2 potential baptisms and i pray so hard that everything will go through!

We had Zone Confrence this week which was great! I love hearing from President and Sister Jergensen! They are definately called by God. No doubt about it. I was thinking how crazy it would be to be a mission president! Haha.. I would really love to do that one day!

On sunday... We had an opportunity to go to Iowa City and hear 2 members from the 70 speak! It was stake confrence and it was great!! :) They talked a lot about missionary work and getting the members more active! Pretty exciting!

We are going to take Ross, Skyler, and hopefully Hadassah to the temple sometime next week after they are all baptized! President approved a trip for us because we're workin hard and all of them want us to be there when they go for there first time! haha.. its pretty cool. Bein a missionary is great!

I gotta go family! Thanks soo much for everything! I love you guys!

Alexis and Lexee thank you SO MUCH for the pictures!! I loved them!

We have got a great week ahead of us. Love you all.

Mom Dad.. You guys are the bomb.. Thanks for the emails.. im glad Kleen Kans is going well! :)

Love,

Elder Russell