Week 8 in Brooksville

Elder Cox and his birthday cookies

That sounds like a fantastic week!! There's a lot of houses that go

crazy with their Christmas lights here in Spring Hill. Glad to hear

the tree is up! That's awesome about the session! Ours was also packed

with tons of missionaries haha. That'd be awesome if you can go every

month! Also good to hear about Jordan. Since he's been home I've been

getting Mathew Davis' updates.

This week was fantastic! We did a lot of traveling at times too. There

was a baptismal interview all the way in Tampa so that took up all of

our morning and part of our afternoon on Saturday. It's an

investigator of Elder Gallaghers though so it was great seeing him! He

was my district leader and we have been following each other since

then haha. We went on exchange with Elder Hanni and Elder Keppner.

Elder Keppner came out the same time I did and actually started his

mission in Brooksville. So we got to talk about a lot of formers he's

worked with and reach out to a lot of them. There were some awesome

miracles! They both came to our area. I was with Elder Keppner.

We have been meeting a lot of good people. We are still working with

the Brown family to solidify that Saturday in December. They're so

close! We have been praying and fasting for them knowing that it's

beyond us right now. The members are still keeping in contact with

them when we can't which is a huge blessing.

The temple trip this week was amazing. I've felt the spirit much

stronger and had my three specific questions all answered in the

temple. Revelation is real. I feel much more confident now and ready

to go out and teach the gospel to everyone we see!

Elder Cox turned 20 yesterday. We are doing more of the celebrations

today. We did make cookies and sing happy birthday to him. He

appreciates dads message! He can't comment of course. We watched the

Christmas Devotional at the Cossons home, she's a recent convert and

their kids are still unbaptized. They're the best though! That's where

we sang Elder Cox happy birthday.

Anyways, it was a really good week. There's a lot of good people we

are working with. We are just praying and hoping they'll all continue

to progress to baptism so they can find that joy they're seeking. I

love you and hope you have a great week!!!!

Elder Hale