steven's letter Dec14

Dear Family
How is everything going there?  Is everyone getting excited for Christmas?  It’s coming up pretty fast.  It feels like December has just started and its already half way over.  Has it started to get cold there?  Its kindof different here.  It can be real cold one day and be we will be wearing our big coats, and two days later it is t-shirt weather again.  It’s pretty nice today.  It’s been a pretty good week.  We go one on one off with the car.  This week was our walking week.  So we got a lot of walking done.  Brother Harris is getting baptized on Saturday.  He is real excited for that.  He was telling everyone at church about it.  He’s a great guy.  I don’t remember if I’ve told you, before but a week ago when we went and saw him,  he told us he believed that Joseph smith was a prophet, and that the book of Mormon was true,  but he didn’t believe that God would want him to give up the tobacco and the coffee.  He has been chewing tobacco since he was five years old.  He told us he would pray about it though, and if he got an answer to his prayer, he would quit.  Elder Morris and I were praying for him too.  Two days later, he had a doctor’s appointment.  He has problems with depression.  The doctor told him he needed to quit chewing tobacco, and drinking coffee.  That was pretty neat to hear.   Kind of like out of the mouth of two witnesses.  His wife has been less active for a few years now, but wants to start coming to church too.  They have the goal of going to the temple to be sealed together in a year.  It’s a great goal for them to have that will help them both as they become active in the church.  The members of the ward here are really excited for the baptism.  It’s the first baptism they will have since the ward was formed 2 years ago.  We are hoping that there will be a big turnout at the baptism and that it will get the members excited about doing missionary work.   Well I hope everyone is having a great week.  I love you.
Love Elder Marshall
Quote of the week
“They do not love that do not show their love”
                           -William Shakespeare