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Elder Nelson - Happy New Year!

Dear Family,

Mission NewsThe mission president asked me to write a letter for him encouraging the stake presidents to make sure the ward mission programs are well organized and functioning per the handbook. I did, but I added a bit of my own thoughts. The one addition was to include some of the good things the wards are doing. I will also call all of the stake high councilors and ask them what is working well for them. Then compile a document of “best practices” to send this document out also to the stake presidents.

A brother that left the Church was re-baptized Monday evening. We know the family and it was fun to see the joy of the family. Afterwards the family invited us over dinner with the family.

Tuesday we went to dinner at David’s place. He is supposed have his trial for his substance abuse on the 13th, go to jail for a week and then get baptized later in January. That will be great if he makes it. He has made a lot of changes in the last 6 or 7 months.

Fun StuffNew Years Day Senior Party. January was our turn to plan a party. We held the get together at the Centreville Stake Center in the relief society room. We started out with a /devotional testimony meeting with all 17 sharing feelings about their mission. We all agreed that associating with the young missionaries was the best part.

We then had a pot luck. Mom and I brought a ham. It was very good food as usual. We then played Pictionary with the board. (What else do you do on New Years?) The men actually won pretty much fair and square. Well, there was one elder who wrote the answer for one of the clues and scratched it out – but just one.

We then played a silly gave called Jigs Up. Sisters sat on one side of the table and the elders sat on the other side. One team passed a quarter underneath the table until the other team called Jigs Up. The first team put their hands on the table palms down and one person had the quarter under one hand. The other team guesses who doesn’t have the quarter. The person they choose raised his hand. The guessing team wins when the hand that is covering the quarter is the last hand chosen. It is a silly game, but it was fun because the fun people playing the game.

Nelson, Larsen, Zabriskie, Gowans, Cook, Christie Downs, Tobler (Dr. Tobler the area doctor)
WES News
Our landlord is giving us grief and asking us to pay $10,000 to get out of the contract. Our lawyer will talk with them on Monday.

Family NewsDerek’s family went to ground zero in Mississippi and toured the French Quarter and ate binnets. 

On Monday January 6, 2020 Elizabeth Jayne Perry will be 4 years old!

Love you all,

Dad

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