We had some great successes this week! We finally met Della. We had to go to her restaurant and eat lunch there, but we had the place and her to ourselves! And tonight we met Alizabeth! She was baptized in July and her family hasn't been to church since we got here almost 5 months ago! Of the 21 people baptized last year, she's the only one we hadn't met. We'd been to their house about 10 times with no answer! It was her dad's birthday (said so in the ward bulletin), so we made a card to leave on their door and as we drove up we found him sitting on the front porch AND he invited us in to meet the family AND we gave them our New Year's message and prayed with them AND we set up a FHE with them!! Hurrah for birthday lists in ward bulletins! Wednesday my sister had a birthday and Ruby Morales had her baby boy, Christian!! Lots of drama that day! She was induced. While in labor the hospital in Galveston started on fire! She was evacuated. She was at 8 centimeters when the doctor discover the baby was posterior and did an emergency C section. We took them dinner last night and poor Ruby looks exhausted. I wish we could have stayed and helped all night! The mission president gave me permission to hold babies and children, but not to change diapers or hold them unless their parents are in the room with me. Tomorrow is Br. Roberts' and Elliott's birthdays. One will be 6 and one will be 76! We are going to Br. Roberts (all the missionaries) and doing service for an hour (actually it turned into 3 hours and a fish fry).
Then we get to call Elliott before we go out to work.
We had a sad week with Luke. His mom is really against the church. He is 29, so he could be baptized, but is trying to keep the peace. Ashley, his girlfriend is so sad. We told her to be patient and to keep praying and being a good example. The 2 greatest secret powers of missionary work.
Good news for her family is that her cousin Jaycey set a baptism date for January 21st and her aunt Tammy is a cigarette habit away from baptism. We plan to commit her tomorrow night for the 28th! Funny story, she is a great hunter. She took the week off last week to go hunting. She took the Gospel Principles book with her and never left the camp! She spent the whole week reading it! She read it cover to cover and marked it and wrote questions in the margins! She said it was the best book she ever read! So we think she's going to be baptized soon! We just need to get rid of the cigarettes! Another funny thing was that Elder Taylor asked her dad; 76 year old Pawpaw if he' d give up his coffee. He stood up and yelled; " I gave up my smoking and my drinking and I'm not giving up my coffee! That's between God and me!" He is usually very sweet and mild, so we were pretty surprised! Poor Elder Taylor was just about 2 feet away from him and was dumbstruck! Sonya, Tammy, and I were all giggling. It was pretty fun! The rest of that group is falling like flies! He's going to fall one of these days! We had our first snow in Cleveland! Its supposed to 81 degrees by Friday though. 50 degree shifts in temperature are kind of expected here.
The sister were pretty excited to get a picture on Br. Robert's hay.
The Elders followed suit.
Elder Quincy helped get Br. Roberts saw going.
Okay, then they found the flags in the barn and we got an awesome District picture!
Br. Roberts in his taxidermy shop!
This is Elder Romero. The new Spanish Elder.
Lame picture of Sister Tomason in red.
The great nerf gun contest.
It may be hard to see, but on our way home from Zone Meeting on Friday, the temperature got down to 31 degrees and we had some snow flakes!
Big brother Angel holding Christian.
As we drove past this swamp with Br. Roberts today, he said that his friend killed a 12 foot long alligator on the road we were driving on this summer that had come out of there! 
Sunset as we left the Ungers and headed to see Sister Weitzel in the hospital. 
There a pretty awesome indian in front of Della's. 
This house had amazing Christmas lights. They're still up so I got a shot.
We were out in the sticks visiting Glenda Cleveland's (she is having surgery tomorrow to see if she has a blockage in her heart!) and Elder Quincy just had to go to the next little town and check out Ace. There were literally no businesses there. We got this gem of a picture of Hill Billy Heaven Road though.
They only had one church!
This is sweet Christian! 
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