Week 9-has it been that long??

Hi there,
I will be staying in Columbia City for Christmas this year and my companion, Elder Savas, will be getting transferred. I will let you know where he goes next week after transfer meeting and who my new companion is.
I am so stoked to hear about the ducks being undefeated still. We stopped at a gas station on the way home one night to grab some treats and drinks and I saw a newspaper that had college football on the front. It showed the Ducks were number 1 and I was like "GO DUCKS!!"

When it gets snowy and icy I suspect we will have to walk and not bike around when we don't have the car.

POOL PARTY!!! We have a baptism tomorrow! Rhonda Leaszer is the one we are baptizing. Earlier this month we tried to commit to baptism on the 27th and she didn't want to because she had a boyfriend in jail, who we didn't know about, that she wanted to talk it over with before getting baptized. She talked to him and tried to give him a Book of Mormon, but he didn't want anything to do with it. So she was pretty sad about that because she wanted to have him be baptized as well. Then this last Wednesday we went over to teach her and afterwards we asked if she had a date in mind that she wanted to be baptized on. She thought for a few minutes and said, "how about the 30th? That's my sons birthday so I think it would be cool to have a spiritual rebirth on that day." Elder Savas was so excited when she said that cause he pretty much knew he would be transferred the next day. True story.

Thanksgiving was amazing! We played in the Turkey Bowl and only got to play touch, lame, but it was alright because everybody else decided to play touch as well. After that we went back to the apartment to get cleaned up. Then we went to the Kenedy's house for lunch and I ate way too much. I had 2 huge plates of food and 4 pieces of pie. We stayed there for about 5 or 6 hours and played apples to apples, billiards, and foosball. I seem to have gotten a little rusty at pool. We then went to Bro. Hinds house, who is our ward mission leader, for dinner where I also ate too much. After that we went back to the apartment and crashed because we were full and exhausted.

On Friday I had my exchanges with the district leader, Elder Yi. The saddest thing happened. We went by Janet's house to see if she was still coming to church. She said she wasn't and that she didn't want us coming over and teaching her anymore. She explained how she went on the internet and talked to ex-mormons and they told her all this bad stuff about the church. She got anti'ed. That was so sad because the lessons that we had with her were so spiritual and she came to stake conference, we could have totally seen her being baptized, but she had to go and do that. Super depressing.

So that was what my week looked like.

love, Elder Brogan Robertson