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Letter #50

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  Merry Christmas everybody! I hope that you all are having a wonderful holiday season! This past transfer has been a blast so far, from getting brand new bikes, finding new friends, talking to literally everyone we see, and sharing the joy or our Redeemers birth, there's just been so much going on! (Common theme for mission I've been finding, it never really slows down) I don't have too long but I wanted to share something I got from my studies recently. In 1 Nephi 11: 16 in the Book of Mormon the prophet Nephi is seeing a vision and conversing with an angel. The angel asks, "knowest though the condescension of god?" and continues on to describe the life of Christ. Christ truly condescended, leaving His throne above to live a mortal life here on earth. Isaiah 53: 2 says, "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him...

Letter #49

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  Merry Christmas everybody! And happy late Thanksgiving too I guess. St. George is wild but I've had a lot of awesome experiences here.  Let me tell you how this past week went though, first of all last Tuesday we had zone conference and Elder Martinez of the Quorum of the 70 came down to speak with us. He and his wife are awesome, they gave us some training over how to teach lessons more effectively as well as how to ask better inspired questions. Later that evening we had the chance to put that training into action with Elder Martinez-- out of the entire 2 zones that attended zone conference he chose to come proselytizing with Elder McDaniel and I for the evening!  We had an awesome night planned, we had 3 lessons lined up and ready to go and then 2 of them ended up canceling last second. Luckily we had some other visits to do as back up plans and even though some lessons canceled it was still an awesome evening. Our lesson that did go through was with a kid named Ashe...