December 29th, 2014

Hey my family! Things are going good!!! It was so much fun to talk to you!! It makes emailing today seem lame compared to talking with you and seeing your faces, but I'll just be grateful to talk with you whatever way they will let me. :) It sounds like the Christmas party was fun! I hope that you enjoy your week off of school that will be sweet. What did owen and Spencer have to tell you? Christmas really was one of the best days of my whole life! I could dare say that looking forward to skyping you guys was one of the things I have been most excited about my whole life. I loved every second of it too! Sorry I am kind of a big baby. So this week we ran into a guy named wayne and he gave a pretty good description of what missionary work is like in his neck of the woods he said, "You guys should know that in this part of town you have more respect than the cops, at least people run away from you." haha I thought that was pretty funny, and it really is pretty true. It has been raining like crazy the past couple days. The darn rain really makes me miss the beautiful snow at home. It has been raining so hard that we couldn't bike so we had to walk, but as we were walking it was neat to notice the finger of the lord in the little things, and it made me really grateful for my bike. I hope that you have a great week!!! Thank you so much for all of the Christmas stuff that you sent me! I am spoiled rotten, it was a really humbling Christmas for me to not be able to really give back very well to all the people that sent stuff. I really am super grateful! I love you guys so much!! Thanks for being willing to talk with me the other day and every Monday :) I love you!! Love Mud