Family,   12/12/16

That show sounds AMAZING! I expect lots of pictures and videos!
Christmas shopping! I actually enjoyed doing that with you two years
ago!..... wow.... it has almost been two years! Where has all of that
time gone!?! I am sure that you are GREAT in the play. You put all the
Christmas Lights up again?!?!? That is awesome. I have very fond
memories of all those lights.

Zone Conferences this last week were great! We read the Book of Mormon
in about 60 days as a mission looking for the Doctrine of Christ, and
then we had a lot of good discussion about it. President Robinson is
still very inspired.

All IS well here. We had an amazing week. The pictures are pictures
with one of our investigators named Sh. She is GREAT! This is a
picture from her baptismal interview. The Elder on the far left is
Elder H. He is 7'2" and he is a sweetheart. He interviewed Sh.
I will give you her full conversion story next week after the baptism.
This weekend was Stake Conference, and Elder Southward of the seventy
joined our YSA Stake. It was EXCELLENT! He is from the south and has
the coolest southern drawl that I have ever heard. He was such a
Christlike and gentle man. He was a convert too! Actually, Elder Dale,
the housing coordinator of the Arizona Scottsdale Mission who I spend
A LOT OF TIME WITH, getting apartments and things for missionaries, is
the one that baptized Elder Southward. Pretty neat. Anyway, Elder
Southward and our Stake President visited Sh! And they used her
story in almost every single one of their talks at Stake Conference.
They tried visiting another one of our investigators as well! Usually
the stake president and visiting General Authority visit struggling
members in the wards, but we are having so much missionary success in
our Ward that they actually visited our investigators. It was pretty
touching. Elder Southward took us aside on multiple occasions and told
us how well we were doing and how much we were loved. It was touching.
And the crazy thing about it is that it really isn't us doing all this
work. It is God preparing individuals to receive us. It really is. I
am not just saying that to sound humble. All the success that we have
had is because of the work of the Lord in the hearts of His children
through His Holy Spirit is is not our work.

Elder Flake