Idaho Initiative & Thanksgiving Miracles

Dear mom! :)
I am seriously excite for Syd! She is so awesome! And thank you for sending her address I was wondering where I could send a letter to. Thanksgiving was great! We spent our first meal at the Hale's home! They are my favorite family here! Brother hale is this 68 year old man that is just super funny and is like my grandpa out here! He is like an Elder Thaxton! I just adore him!

**WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR WHICH SEMESTER TO START SCHOOL WHEN YOU RETURN, SO I CAN HANDLE YOUR BYU-I SCHOLARSHIPS?**
OKAY IN REGARDS TO MY RETUNRING HOME PLANS I HAVE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT WANTING TO WORK AT THE INN UP AT JACKSON HOLE WHERE THE KUNZ'S OWN IT? I FEEL AS THOUGH WORKING THERE FOR THE SUMMER AND DELAYING MY COLLEGE ENTRANCE UNTIL THE FALL IS SMARTEST TO DO. HOWEVER I AM WONDERING IF DOING THAT WOULD TAKE AWAY MY COLLEGE SCOLARSHIP? 
But yeah that is kind of my plan! So I am kinda just going to go with one to benefit the other so it should hopefully work out, haha I have no idea and we live with very "trunky"(=home worrying and lazy) Hermanas... So I am determined to not be that way and still focus on the work because it's the only time I really have to serve God. :) I really am excited to see everyone once again and move forward with my life plans but that is really all the thoughts that I have.

**TELL US ABOUT SISTER REED**

Yes, Sister Reed is awesome! I love her to death! She is just down to
earth and super funny! She is incredible though. Her mom is half Blake and half Mexican and her dad is black (Cajun too) and he is also a convert to the church. Sister Reed went to Utah state (not graduated yet) and had be inactive for two or three years and then started coming back to church when her sister came back home from her mission! Sister Reed loves to draw just like me! She LOVES STAR WARS and STAR TREK( so if you happen to see any Star Wars stuff that you could get for her for me and send it out as a Christmas gift, that would be incredible!) she is super funny and can do impressionable voices! Especially the Grinch ;)

Dear family and friends! Happy thanksgiving weekend!
We had a great Thanksgiving Day and week! We first went to the Hale's and they had their family there. Brother hale was whipped and ready to eat a lot of food. We stayed there and ate for a few hours and then came home and slept and then we went out once more for dinner at the church with the elders and the members of the church for a very wonderful evening of playing on the piano and listening to Christmas music and stuffing ourselves silly! It was really the funniest day ever!

A Church Referral results in a Baptismal Date set
Sister Reed and I have been praying hard for more investigators and we saw a fruit of our labor and we received a referral from headquarters a week ago and we went this week to contact him and he is incredible! We ended up teaching the restoration and setting a baptismal date! He has read the first two books of the Book of Mormon before but that was fourteen years ago! He believes that he church has all of the truth from the things he has researched already about the church. His name is David Boling and he is awesome!

Awesome Member Brother Hale
We also found two more investigators that we are working with! Brother Hale stopped by this week and he had picked up our bike to "look at it" and end up taking it to get the frog wheel fixed from my bike accident -_- he is so sweet but he does way too much for us! I graciously thanked him and he neglected to even tell me what the cost was so I could repay him! But his kindness served well because we have been able to bike again!

A 40 minute Conversation Changes Lives

This whole week we haven't been able to do much and we could finally talk to people and share the gospel! We ended up running into a man who was religious and we ended up taking forty minutes to share the gospel with him, then after a wonderful forty minute talk with him he starts to throw out as much false doctrine and anti at us as he could muster. I was annoyed but we both kept our faces bright and attitudes happy and bore our testimonies. He couldn't argue no more and we offered to say a prayer with him and he said "Well, to be honest I would rather not because the way you pray and the way I pray is completely different and I don't want to jeopardize anything. We asked him how he prayed and he said "It’s not necessarily how I pray, it's more who I pray to. You all don't pray to the God I pray to." I looked at him square in the eye, I think a little roughed up not but still kind, "My parents have always taught me that if I pray to God that he loves me enough to give me an answer to that prayer. We pray to the same God." Then he set a return appointment with us and we ended up leaving! We know when we do go back this week that our testimonies will be the only convincing evidence for this man, nice guy just not yet too humble :) it'll come later on though :)

Sister Reed found a glitter pumpkin!

It’s All Uphill

Friday we had district meeting and Saturday we had our own coordination with the elders because our Ward mission leader was gone. It was heavy raining, as it has been all week and we had to walk there. Haha so we started our two mile walk to the church and boy was that fun! There was a Louisville vs. Lexington football game that had just ended and the fans were walking home. Obviously Lexington lost, haha, and the fans were either drunk or angry or combined as angry drunks. Sister Reed and I walked through these crowds of people, through the rain and up the hill. When we finally got to the church we were soaked and sore haha but we were able to have a good coordination and help earn the trust of our bishop more fully. 

Ward Council with our President Brough & the Idaho Initiative!

Yesterday President Brough came and attended our ward council! It was awesome! We heard from him about the Idaho initiative! Yay! Idaho is making headway for the church! Good job guys!;) the ward council members didn't look to excited about it except for us missionaries, the Bishop and President Brough! I know though that this will help the ward continue to grow.

Visiting Seventy Elder Kenisha
This week has been awesome and we are looking forward to more! Elder Kenisha of the Seventy will be here for our stake conference and I will get to see Sister Hannah! Yay! So excited :)
I love you all so much and have a great week!
Love, Sister Jones

Us mimicking Mariah Carrie's singing haha or even Christina Aguilara's too funny....