17th Week in Tampa

 This is what are small district did on the worldwide day of service

I miss going to the nativity festival. We do have something called night

at Bethlehem that our stake sets up. It's huge, they have a large

field on Odessa next to the stake center so we set up different

buildings to make it look like Bethlehem. Then they have actual actors

and animals in the show and it sounds like it's very spiritual.

Thousands of people come from all around to see it. I think there may

be several other church's who help with it. That will be next Thursday

through Saturday. We've had so many miracles this week. 

We have the Smith Family getting

very close to baptism in the next couple weeks. We have had so many

miracles. One example happened on the world wide day of service. We

finished and we got a random call. Turns out the man who called us was

looking for two Books of Mormon and wants to start coming back to

church. Crazy!! We watched the Christmas devotional at the Blue

Star's. He is our ward mission leader. They have two brand new twins

so they have been very busy. I've loved serving out here. The humidity

and rain are back this week but it should be in the 30's this weekend.

Love you all!!!

Elder Hale