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oh man this week was so slow!!! and by golly it got cold! 20-30 degrees! haha right now my fingers are like still frozen from being outside just for like 30 seconds to walk from the car to the library. haha it's hard. :) well we were able to grow closer to one of our investigators who we have to pass off to the other elders in a family ward cause she has a little daughter. but she can still come to all of the ysa activities that we have and so i really hope that everything goes well with the hand off to them. 

this week we finally had to get out the thermal g's and start bundling up cause it is so super cold out there but i know that it will just get colder! 

oh man we had a few people that had to work on black friday. im glad i don't have to work in a store on that day. i'd be afraid of getting bit in the neck by a little 11 year old. haha we heard a story about that on thanksgiving. :) 

so thanksgiving was great! we spent it at our branch presidents house and then went home cause they all went black friday shopping and so we sat at home for a little bit and then were invited to a members house from the 2nd ward elders! it was way nice of them to do that and we also got to play pingpong in both houses. i love it! im not very good but i absolutely love it!! :) so i think we should get one when we get home. fold it up and store it when we are not using it but then pull it out and put it in the big room and have a big party! 

we are kinda worried about one of our investigator cause she just won't answer us back. we have texted her and we have even had a member try and text her to see how she is doing but to no avail...fortunatley we have a person in our branch presidency who has a son who lives where she is from and so it's kinda creepy but also we are able to keep tabs on her with out her even knowing. haha we are like spies! fun times! haha no but we plan to try and get ahold of her and see if we can set up a lesson with her sometime soon. i don't have really much else to say besides that this week was again slow. 

well thats it for now! i love you all and can't wait till next week!

love 

Elder Jens Smith

Are you getting closer to your baptism dates?  

yeah we are.  and we are getting a little nervous about what is going to happen. 

How has the newness of your companion been?  Getting along ok?  

yeah we are getting along great! we are talking a lot about his past companions and how he needs to overcome somethings and work out somethings that will help him with his self confidence. we have an elder here who isn't very nice to him and so i plan to have a nice chat with that elder and tell him how it is. hopefully it goes over well. i think it will. 

I'm sending one box tomorrow...not sure when others will be sent.  Is there anything last minute you'd like?  you good on pants?  

mmmm...i don't really know what i would need. you just need to know to send them priority mail or 1st class. thats what president jergensen keeps telling us in our emails and that all packages should be sent before the 15th of december. so yeah...

What's your best favorite thing this week?    

prolly being able to see an investigator and help her understand that the only way she is going to know whether or not to be baptized is to read the book of mormon. and thats all she'll have to do to know. that was pretty cool to tell her that. oh and being able to play pingpong twice in one night!!! it was awesome!! haha

What'd you do for thanksgiving...the actual day?  

in the morning we went and contacted some people on the street but there weren't that many so we decieded it would be less time effective to do this so we walked around for a little bit more trying to find some people then we headed over to our branch pres. house and had a linner thanksgiving. kinda weird but oh well. it was fun. :) played pingpong and then went over to the other members house of the 2nd ward and played pingpong over there. pretty fun.