Hey Peeps. 

Good week this week. Dawn has been struggling, so we gave her a blessing. She's been doing a lot better and we're setting a new baptismal date with her tonight, which is awesome. 

Last week Sister Barland's daughter came home from school out in Maine. We had a lesson with them scheduled for Wednesday, so we taught about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. On Friday, Anne sent us a text and said her daughter had some questions about why Laban had to be killed at the beginning of the Book of Mormon. Luckily, I've got an awesome lesson prepared for that question, so we taught that, and afterwards she understood. Last night, Sister Barland told us that Ally wants to be baptized. On January 10th. So that's really awesome. That family is just the definition of broken heats and contrite spirits. Super awesome. 

 

We also started teaching a new family that moved in next to our Singles branch sisters. They are awesome. 

That crazy less-active family came to church, and I mean the whole family including the kid that we've been teaching who's been in and out of jail. So that was awesome. 

On Wednesday, I got a letter from an inactive girl from Harrison. I don't remember if I told you guys much about her. She was in the orchestra for that Peter Pan play that Elder Aubry and I went to with that part-member family we were teaching. After the play was over, we went over and talked to her. She told us all about how she was atheist, and psychology and stuff. She was super nice and reasonably open-minded, just "blinded by the subtle craftiness of men." We left without making much headway, which was a bummer, but that's life. A few days later, I left her a book I had talked about, called "Mere Christianity" I had finished reading it, and she needed it more than I did. In it I left a note saying something along the lines of, "This book helped be understand Christianity from an objective outsider perspective, obviously we'd prefer you read the scriptures for answers, but I thought you'd enjoy this." then I didn't hear from her for about four and a half months. In the letter she sent me she said she went back to church for the first time in years, and that she "can't deny the little peace she feels in that building." It was such a touching letter, and it made me really feel like I had made a difference in somebody's life. That was incredibly awesome. 

Awesome week. Merry Christmas to the missionaries!!

I hope you guys have a good week! Hopefully it's not as cold as it is over here! 

Love you all a ton, miss you a bunch. 

Elder Christopher Drake