Christmas Day

Hello again! We can't call but they are letting us email you guys! I hope everything is going alright at the house, and that Casey is going to school when he's supposed to! About the missionary mail thing, I got your message, and some other elder's email too. His name is Payton Smith, funny mix up right? His friend from California sent him a message.  Today we found him sitting on the couch waiting for his comp. Elder Danner said,  "Hi Elder Smith" and I looked over to see who he was talking to as we were walking past. I saw him and was about to keep going when I stopped and asked if his name was Payton, and he said yes! So a week has gone by and we finally found him!

Classes here just keep getting better and better, and so am I. The teacher got paired with me for a practice round and the lesson was about teaching people, not lessons, and he said I did a perfect job and that it made him really accept to be baptized again! Brother Graf is an awesome teacher, he came back from his mission last July. See if Jameson knows him, he returned from Canada, Farsi speaking (Persian.) Brother Larsen is a great teacher too, and I know we got the best teachers in the building.

We just had a Christmas sacrament devotional where Elder Bednar spoke on being truly converted and rejecting the natural man inside by focusing more on your outward actions, than focusing on being inward, or selfish. I love being here and I am getting more humble everyday, if you can believe it! Me and my comps did have a few fights, where they blamed me for going too fast and not using the spirit, when I led a super good lesson and did everything right. But I knew they weren't going to budge on their opinions so I said that they were probably right and that I needed to slow down. The next lesson we did turned out horrible, and they still blamed me, but luckily sister Lyon, another class's teacher, helped us out. She had a threesome also in the field and MTC. She taught us to work together and plan before, which I tried to tell my comps when they wanted to only rely on the spirit to give them the info of what to speak. Now we are teaching great lessons again! and finally working together, and I did forgive them, in my heart, but they still believe that I go too fast...

How was your Christmas? and how is the family doing? Did Jameson get in any accidents lately? And also I get to email this Tuesday so if you would email back, and let me know if Megan sent her letter, cause I still didn't get it. My P.O. box number is 229. I don't want any mixups and have Payton get her letter.... I would laugh if it really did happen! :)

I love you guys so much! and Merry Christmas!

PS. NO MORE CANDY!! We have three drawers full of candy and we feel sick just by looking at them, but I am grateful for your concern for me and my comps! :)