"This Work Is AMAZING" Dec 9, 2012

Well howdy there family! it was great to hear from you and see the pictures i love that! well this week was crazy, we had a lot of things going on and our work suffered a little bit, nevertheless we got it done and we saw some great progression in some of our less actives and espically in our investigators. we have one family the "daven family" there is 6 of them included one of their cousins thats interested and we got 3 of them at church! we were way pumped! the other 3 had a emergency, oh well things happen, we were happy for the results, all in all we had 7 investigators come to church! it was a great week. this week was not all easy, it was a rough one with get punted left and right, people hiding more than usual haha and some of the worst excuses but thats all apart of the mission! i relied heavily this week on our Heavenly Father cause there were times i was just ticked and didnt know exactly what to do, but thats the amazing thing, hes always there to ease our burdens and give the direction we need. it was a great thing that helped me grow personally. today we had a activity and we went hiking, it was ok, i did get to hold to huge pythons that was neat and this week when i was on exchanges i got to hold a monkey! it was way cool it started picking throw my hair looking for lice and i learned they dont like it when you smile, they think your mad haha the little guy bit my finger, dont worry it wasnt bad, just a little nibble hahaha everybody was laughing way hard. Family this work is amazing and im loving it, we are working hard and the lord is really blessing us out here, our area is slowly starting to progress since i got here and thats been the great blessings from heavenly father. i love you guys and hope you have a great week! no news yet on the christmas call, if anything ill just call when its christmas over there. mahal kita elder machen