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December 11, 2017 from Gray

hi mommy! so first off....daniel and alexandre have been major bummers this week. daniel hasnt answered our many calls and we talked with alexandre and he kinda just said he has lots of committments with his church around christmas time but he will continue reading the book of mormon. so hopefully that will at least help. but its super sad about both of them. Our investigator that was in church last week, elaine, committed to baptism this next sunday!! im praying that everything goes through. it just feels like its been a while and im happy we will get another chance to baptize and bring her unto the gospel. she drinks a lot of coffee and in our lesson she just said she needs a little time to stop so im hoping that is all going good with her right now. i believe we teach her one more time wednesday night and then her interview would be thursday night! that is awesome news, but honestly for the first time in my whole mission i feel like our list is dwindling in size and strength. so im gonna work really hard this week to find new people and contact!

im glad you guys walked away from that honestly, i had a bad feeling about it but hopefully you find something better soon! im sorry yall are sick that sucks! i think i might be feeling something in the early stages right now. thats sad about danis mom, ill make sure to send her something. 

no news on skype....ugh. its hard with LdS sometimes. but he said its easy to set up. we´ll just have to make sure we have email time next week to talk about it and stuff. sally was not gonna go to nyc for a while cause apparently there was an isis threat but they are going now and i have no idea when she will be able to skype. 

i looked for some shoes this week and most dont have my size. some have it in black but i already have black shoes and im looking for brown. next time we go to the office ill look there cause its a bigger part of the city. but dont worry about it for now. i can live with my pair i have. 

still stretching. my feet and back are doing lots better. almost no pain this week!

hmm new food....theres not much of that here haha. but i still love eating at members houses for lunch and its almost always good! the stove is set up! I only use it occasionally honestly. at night when we get home and its 9 or 915 im just so freaking exhausted and i just want to get in bed asap and im usually not too hungry anyway. im not gaining any weight really just staying around the same but i definitely feel a little more skin in my belly!!!! aggggghhh thats really scary. and it makes no sense cause im working out hard and i honesltly thought i was eating less. but im just gonna continue to hit abs hard. 

thats awesome about our patriarchal blessings! they are pretty similar! i never realized that there were people like that and it makes so much sense with the people that are not out to do any good on the earth. but anyway ive read my patriarchal blessing a few times and i love it!! its helped me a lot and so much of it matches up with how i feel now! i love the part that says i will be a man of the scriptures cause i feel like thats totally me now! haha. ive been super motivated and obedient this week. i read a scripture that pretty much said just to always check your obedience and righteousness at different times to make sure you are staying on the right path. so i want to make sure i do that every once in a while on my mission. 

i love you so much mom you are amazing! love you!

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