12-07

Hello Family & Friends How are you!I hope all is well and you are having a great first week of the Christmas Holidays! I can't say there is a lot of snow here.. but I believe I said this before.. I think I am comforming to California's "cold" weather... I have to wear a sweater... haha (I think your right mom, I am going to die when I come home to feet of snow!) Is there a lot of snow yet down there?My new home is good and I live with two other missionaries besides myself and Elder Cason (Elders Fairbanks & Blackett) and I am the older in the mission than all of them - I really just feel like I got out here! My district that I cover is bigger than usual I have: Elders Cason, Fairbanks, Blackett, Rutland, Ross, Roesbeck, & Proffit. I have not yet got to train them ... but will next Tuesday i believe... goodie goodie.. haha it will be good. I have faith.Elder Cason is a good guy, we have had a lot of fun and he is a talker! He is from Virginia too... and Elder Veater is training again and is training another Elder that came in from Virginia... so pretty much .. we are going to have a lot of connections there..hahaSo a neat experience: Elder K. Johnson said that we needed to (in our discussions) ask our investigators if they feel the spirit... so me and Elder Cason was in a discussion with this black lady named Brenda Franklin and we commited her for baptism. She is so ready and started bawling because the spirit was so strong [oh my gosh - I have never literally seen "godly-sorrow" like that] She was really scared, but I stopped her and asked her if she felt the spirit... she stopped and she said "yes"... Later on sunday she bore her testimony and said that she never knew what the spirit felt like until that time! Sometimes it just takes a little noticing.. stopping.. pondering - then we can take some time out of our busy caotic lives to feel the spirit.The Christmas devotional was so great too. Don't you just get a stronger testimony when you see our beloved propet speak! awh, I love it! I know that this gospel is true and that it can change lives, I've seen the miracles that our Savior Christs atonement has brought on peoples lives!I love you all so much! Stay safe in the snow! Love and live the gospel!FYI my addresses are :-3233 Arlington Ave. Ste 107 Riverside, CA 92506-3246 (mission office)-5200 Canyon Crest #75 Riverside, CA 92507 (my appartment)Love you all so much!!Love Elder McBride