Week 41

Haha Hello Family!!

What a good Thanksgiving week that I had. We got to play in the Branch Turkey Bowl out here and that was a blast to play football! This year it was different not being with family, but it was spent with the Jolley family and they are now to me, family. They have ALL become my good friends and i am going to miss them.

What better time of year to think about what you are truly thankful for in life than Thanksgiving week. I took a minute to think and write down what i was thankful for and here are some of the things that i came up with.
I'm thankful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I'm thankful for parents that KNEW the church is true.
I'm thankful for my brothers and sisters and all the examples they set.
I'm grateful for my church leaders and friends and the example they have been.
I'm thankful for the role that God plays in my life and for His son Jesus Christ.

The list goes on and on.. But as i was making this list a quote popped into my head that says "the only debt is a debt of gratitude."

To these things listed above, i am truly in debt to forever for. I would be absolutely no where in life without these blessings, and words cannot describe how grateful i am for these things.

With the missionary side of the work, it has been slow because every single one of our investigators was out of town! Ha it was brutal. But we still had some very spiritual experiences which is awesome. Haha i want to tell you about the COOLEST thing that happened!

So the De'vore family invited us to go with them to get their Christmas tree for the year. We went to this HUGE tree farm that had over 2,000 Christmas tree's row by row lined up for everyone to come chop it down and get their tree for the year. There were a ton of people and a ton of families walking around and me and Isabel De'vore who's 7 years old starting playing tag and running through the Christmas tree's. And soon enough kids were asking if they could tag with us. And within 20 minutes or so we had probably 20 kids darting through Christmas tree's playing tag with us! It was SOOO much fun. i'll never forget it. While i was playing my companion kinda just looked at me like i was a idiot. But hey i had a really good time. Ha and the best part was that these kids were running back to their parents and saying "the mormon missionaries are awesome!!" SO FUN!

Haha i'm out of time today.I'm sorry this email isn't very good. Ill write more next week!
Mom if you could send me some Thermals that would be awesome. Its getting to be FREEZING out here. Ha i'm not excited for winter.
Dad thanks for the email and Lexee thanks for the pictures!! Looks like you guys had a great thanksgiving!

Love Elder Russell