Devon - last email of the year 2015

This week was cold out side.  My nose and fingers kept numbing but thanks to my coat it never felt to cold. 

We have an apartment place in our area that is for families that have lower income.  The apartments are filled with refugees from Africa, because Boise is a hub for refugees.  They all speak languages that I can’t speak like French, Swahili, etc.  Some of the men speak English but it is hard for them to understand us and for us to understand them, which makes it a little difficult to share our message on Christ.  The people are so humble that they invite us back even if they don’t understand us completely.  Since I am district leader I can go on exchanges with any Elder in my district.  There is an Elder from Quebec Canada that specks French and Elder Wood took 5 year of it in High school.  So they got to teach a family in French and we got an investigator from it.  The gift of interpretation of tongues is real. I was listening to them in French and somehow I could understand what they were saying.  It was really cool.  I heard a member that is a return missionary from a French specking Nation bare his testimony of the book of Mormon in French, and I felt the spirit bearing witness to me that what they were saying is true.

For New Year’s Eve … my companion fell asleep after planning so I got board quick and went to bed early as well.  I still have not made goals for the year yet.  I need to get on it.  Hope you guys have a great new year!!!  Remember Lot’s Wife … Luke 17:32.  Remember that Lot’s wife look long fully back at her old life and was turned into a pillar of salt.  We cannot look back on this last year longing for it.  We can’t look back on our life focusing on the past because if we do our progression physically and spiritually stops and becomes like a pillar of salt.