Happy BOXING Day

Well y'all, it's Boxing day in Canada, please make sure to pay your respects. 

It was also Christmas this week. We had a great week in Moscow. It was a lot more productive than we anticipated. More than half of our ward is out of town. 

We have 2 new investigators. Sherry is this sweet older lady who is a Quaker. (I thought they only made oatmeal.) Apparently they also worship. It was interesting to see some of her views and how they do things. The lesson we had was great. She happily accepted the reading of the Book of Mormon and praying about it. Her biggest problem right now is - she just views Christ as another prophet. 

In other news, I slipped fell and got a sweet bruise on my elbow. I have the art of the ungraceful fall down. Too bad it isn't one of the Christlike attributes we study. Anyway, the people here don't use salt, like, it is illegal to put salt on the road or something which is just stupid. There is ice everywhere because of this. 

Four Elders in a closet

Christmas was great though. We met as a district and all opened presents on Christmas morning. After that we went to church, then we made cookies, took them out to our investigators, ding dong ditched them, and ran away. The only logic flaw that existed was that we were running away fast and we were on snow and ice trying to hurry back to the car. I fell 4 times. After that we all went to an apartment with all the elders. We ended up having a Febreze battle and the room still stinks today. At one point we all tried to fit in the closet (I don't know why). So we kept ourselves plenty busy. 

With the new year coming I would challenge y'all to set a spiritually increasing goal that works for you. Whether it be spending time in the scriptures, paying more attention in church, or praying more often, do something to increase your personal conversion EVERYDAY. 

Love, Elder J Steele Rapier :)

Also, pictured below is our car in a very stuck position. My companion thought that the DO NOT ENTER sign on the side of the road was more of a polite suggestion than a real rule and decided to plow on in our mighty Corolla. We got SUPER stuck and as I was pushing us out I slipped and got covered in feces of some kind. Texas drivers...

Super stuck in the mighty Corolla

Nasty!