This past week has flown by but at the same time it has gone by kind of slow. so how is everyone doing? i hope that work,school, and everything else is going well for y'all. things are going great for me out here, this winter weather and long nights make me really tired all the time. i agree about being used to having pdays on wednesdays and having to adjust to monday, i'm not so sure if i like it or not.

i think later today we are going to go up to Glenwood and play basketball and football. we were originally planning on moving out today into our other place but yesterday we had ward council and my comp was the one that was in the meeting and he didn't get everything organized with the ward so it will probably be later this week sometime. he was the one in there because we were on team ups temporarily so all 4 of us wouldn't have to be in the same meeting, only one from each area.

i do have my new address so you can start sending stuff to that address, because we have the keys to the place and have been taking a few things with us every time we go down there. the address is

854 W. Battlment Parkway L-101
Parachute, Co 81635

this past week was kind of a slow one for work because most of the families we are working with were out of town for the holiday, but we were still able to teach a of couple people. so last monday night we left here in Rifle at about 6:30 and headed up to Frisco, the roads were good most of the way except for Vail pass which is at 10,680 ft so you could imagine it getting snow. but we made it to the cabin safely and spent the night there. it was such a beautiful cabin i loved it! they had 10 sleds just sitting outside so of course i had to go and start one up and smell the beautiful smell of snowmobiles! ha i wanted to ride it so bad but we didn't asked the member that owned them so i decided it wouldn't be smart!

tomorrow we have a miniture zone confrence here in Rifle and also interviews, so it will be good to talk with President Maynes and have him help me out on how i can be a better trainer. It's crazy for me to think that this will be my 2nd to last zone confrence.

so when we were up at that leadership training it hit me for the first time that i'm really going to miss being a missionary, i was talking with Elder Allred and he brought up how much time i had left and the fact that i was the oldest missionary there and it really hit me then how close it is to me going home, i'm excited to see all of you but i like doing what i'm doing.

So yesterday during sacrament a young man from the ward gave his farewell talk and it was on how he prepared for a mission. towards the end of his talk he said how he knows it will be hard at first but he hopes to be a great missionary like Elder Anderson. lol i thought to myself what the crap, no way you dont want to be like me ha. but he was being serious and he talked about me for like 30 seconds ha. although i dont think i'm that great of an example i think it's really neat that he thinks that of me.

Saturday night we had a lesson with the Trujillo's which is a part member family and the spirit was so strong there i invited him to pray to know if the things we teach are true and after that invited him to follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God and he said that he would if he recieved an answer! it was awesome, but the thing is getting him and everyone else to actually pray. because i know that if anyone takes the promise found in Moroni 10:3-5 seriously then they will recieve an answer.

we had a great Thanksgiving, we were able to play football for a couple of hours in the morning and then we went and had two meals! i felt so fat afterwards, well i was so fat afterwards!

i hope that everything is going well for all of you and you have a great week! happy early birthday Aunt Janet, you're getting old! haha and mom you're gonna be .... i dont even wanna say! lol miss you and love you all so much! cant wait to hear back. Christmas is just around the corner and that means i get to call home! :)
love Randy