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Hello Family & Friends!Hope you are all having a great Christmas season! I am glad to say that people actually do lights down here.. goll, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't know it was December! Haha, we even got a ton of Aprils showers - - I think Miss Mother Nature is a little confused.. but now all too soon it's back to hot weather... anyone want to send me some snow for Christmas?? haha Oh my gosh, isn't December going soo fast! I can't believe it ... we are almost 2 weeks down! Going from my home in Lake Elsinore (where I had so much work & investigators) to Riverside is kind of ... humbling?? Me & Elder Cason are trying our hardest to find new people to teach and talking to everyone... but seriously the fish arn't biting! I guess I should look at the glass half full - we do have a couple of investigators and we just baptized one of them on Sunday.That lady who I wrote about last week (Brenda Franklin) got baptized. Elder Veater and Cason found her tracting one day when they were trying to talk to this one lady she yelled at them ... so they went around the corner quickely and found Brenda who was having a very rough time in her life (her mom and brother just died). She excepted the invitation for the elders to come back and teach her. They taught her for a month and then I came. She is such a great lady and I have never seen the gospel change someones life so much as it has changed hers! Really the term of true repentance and godly sorry is Brenda. On Tuesday we had a meeting with her and at the last of the meeting we brought up standards.. well Brenda said she wanted to live the gospel fully so she asked about the 4 earings she had in one ear and 3 in the other. So I told her right out that the church had proclaimed that they just want girls to have one set of earings... she started bawling and said that each hole had a reason for it... but at the end said that I would never see her with more than one set in her ears ever again. WOW!! She knows it's not for me - that it's for her Savior.. but she is just soo great and wants to do everything she can to follow our Heavenly Fathers commandments! She says that I am "brutal" with her.. but her moto is "keep it real" and says that's what I do .. haha... I'm brutal with love :)The service for her baptism was wonderful! Elder Veater even got to come back and see... so we had a fun reunion! Brenda was so scared that she was going to have to do it twice... haha and the funny thing is ... lol, her leg came up and she did. I told her it just goes to show how meaningful that we need to have such a sacred saving ordinance performed corectly! Oh & mom, Brenda said that she is going to call and talk to you - so be expecting a call sometime or another :) Tell her to slow down when she speeds ;)I even got to go back to Lake Elsinore this week to go to one of my investigators baptisms. It was for Maria Saucedo. Haha, but I just didn't get a free ticket to watch it... I had to give the talk.. haha, the first thing I thought of was the talk that I did for Brackens baptism... with the props... but considering I didn't have the stuff I would have to just use my words. It was a very good talk if I do say so myself... maybe I will right it up for you.. I swear the Spirit helped me write it!Good luck Kolten in the mission field and MTC, you'll love it and see you in 2 years buddy!Happy Birthday again Cami hope you had a great 20th!!! And Happy Birthday to you Shawn and Mom again I love you all!Well I hope you are all doing great and are remembering the reason for the season! Stay safe, I love you all so much. I may not write that many letters, and I am sorry but that does not mean I love you any less! God bless & LoveElder McBride