Christmas

I guess he did have something to say...

HEY HEY!! How's it going everybody!

Merry Christmas!Boy oh boy, I'm so excited for it. We totally get to celebrate the birth of the Savior! How exciting is that. Forget all those presents and junk. God has already given up the greatest gift, his son!! Oh man, I get to talk to you all!!!! Maybe not you all but some of you! Totally way stoked for that. But I'm still way weirded out about it though, haha. This week has bee a pretty SPECTACULAR week! (I like that word lately). We have had a lot going on. The craziest has been the weather. We were over at a part member family's house and went out to go tracting. .. it was freezing! So we got all bundled up went out, it was -5. So much fun! It's funny when you get to the point on your mission where you get excited for horrible weather. It makes you feel good knowing that the weather doesn't even have a chance to stop the work. Maybe those lameo misisonaries wouldn't tract, but not us! It was a lot of fun. We would spit and by the time we walked over to it it was frozen, haha. Good fun. The crazy part about it was when we were tracting we found this awesome Australian guy working on his motorcycle with just jeans and a coat on! We talked to him and he came out side and we taught an entire 1st lesson in -5 degrees!! Yeah, like 30 minutes, I swear, so sweet! He is awesome so we will definitely stop by there later in the week.

We had Zone Conference on Tuesday. It was so good. The whole thing was all about the Savior. The spirit there was so strong. I loved it. At the end we always have a testimony meeting and that is always the best. . . .

By far the best thing that has happened this week. . .
I'm a little behind in the reading so I'm trying to catch up for Christmas. I was reading the story of the army of Helaman. Right before I started reading, I had a good long chat with God about stuff. I felt like I needed to be searching for something, but I didn't know what. It was weird, I finished and started to read. When I came to that story I just couldn't help but cry. I had read it so many times before, but this time it was different. I had found what I was looking for. The Lord was helping me have more faith then I had. He was helping me grow that much more. Helaman's sons were asked what they should do about the Lamanites, they didn't even doubt for a second. They just said how they knew that God would protect them. That because they were doing the things they knew were right, the things their mom's had taught them, that the Lord would be with them. How great was Helaman's joy to find that not one of them was killed. I was so excited when I read that. It's like I didn't know the ending to a story, even though I'd already read it many times. I realized that that's the faith that we all need to have. If we would just put ALL our trust in him everything will be fine, everything will work out perfectly. We just have to have the faith. I love that. So yes. . . persacutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may asemble, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobaly, and independant. Until the purposes of God shall be acomplished. And the Great Jehova shall say "the work is done!" Nothing can stop this work from progressing and I'm glad I have a chance to be a part of that! I love you all!!

Thanks for your letters and cards!!
Love,
Elder Bragg