"Dan Jones's"

Alright, so have you ever breathed in and felt your nostrils just stick due to the cold weather?! Ha-ha This past week was full of great weather and awesome experiences here as a missionary. Lately, we have been meeting with a Muslim man who has been interested in our message and what makes us different between all other religions that believe in Christ as well. We have had two meetings and they have been both on the street. Elder B had to leave for a visa trip on Tuesday last week and therefore had the opportunity of being in a companionship of three again for the day! We hopped out of the small bus on the side of the road and exchanged greetings and began to talk about our lesson on the ministry of Christ and his Atonement. It turns out that he is from Uzbekistan and knows some Russian and reads Arabic. We were grateful to learn more about his faith and we might be able to meet further with him in the future if it is not at the mosque. (He had invited us to a mosque to just walk around and see the inside.) But the funny thing was that my other companions were freezing because we stood outside for about forty minutes in the shade and as I took my hands out of my pockets to turn the pages of the Book of Mormon, you could see steam arise from them!! AGHHH COLD! I felt like member on the Fantastic 4 who can create fire! Ha-ha

Our other investigators are doing well and are progressing. They both came to church yesterday after talking about how important the Sabbath Day is to us and to the Lord. I love the miracles that I see everyday here as I put forth effort in finding those to teach and sharing a simple smile or even the gospel to a whole bus through words or through song.

This past week as a district we have been striving to accomplish the goal which we set to do 12 "Dan Jones's" a week as a district, which means to stand in the front of the bus and announce who you are and why we are here as missionaries. I did this twice last week and I about DIED of heart attack, but after a few minutes I felt like taking on the world! Got me PUMPED!! Then on splits we went into the trams and sang hymns to everyone, who for the most part liked what we were doing and were very interested. Now, of course there were other opinions, which included the driver getting on the speaker after two seconds and saying, "NO SINGING!" ha-ha,  It still got everyone's attention and aloud us to go down the tram and talk to people, who praised us for our good voices! (I didn't know that I was that good! ;P) We proceeded in doing the caroling and then we got onto another bus where a couple of people were quite unhappy that we were not a part of their church and said that it would be better for us to exit.

I am not afraid to talk in front of anyone. I love my area!! Elder and I have been working hard and have enjoyed all the incidents we have experienced including setting a new record of having had two beds break in half so far on my mission and having to remodel the bed.

Thank you for the mail and for the Christmas cards. I really enjoyed the candy and the AMAZING Norwegian chocolate with the waffles and sea salt in it. SUPER GOOD! The Christmas card was great too, thanks to Astrid's family!!

LOVE YOU ALL!! 

Elder LeFevre