December 16, 2013

Hey everyone,

Elder Amadi

It was a crazy week!!! This week I got a new companion, had to take over the area and also for some reason my mission Pres. and the Lord think I am ready to be District Leader... I am very excited to learn and grow from this experience I just hope I can help out my district as much as possible! Also it was a fear conquering week! I will send you guys all the picture and you will all see why it is a fear conquering week!!! My new companion is awesome, his name is Elder Amadi!! I love this man already and so excited to learn from him! He comes from Atlanta, Georgia and he is Nigerian! He is one of the coolest guys I have ever met!!!

Speaking of new... We finally moved out of that dump we lived in... so if you have sent anything there recently let me know so I can go by and get it. Other wise from now on just send stuff to my new address, it is

3310 Bermuda isles Circle apt 238

Naples, FL 34109

Well once again things are crazy and I don't have a lot of time so this might be a little bit of a shorter letter.. Our Mission President told us to give you guys a heads up and plan for Christmas calls this week. Me and my comp have decided that we will call 11:30 our time so that is 9:30 your time. Does that work?? Let me know as soon as possible. Also we can either skype or facetime which ever is easiest... With that being said still set up a skype because I am not sure if the members house we are going to has facetime. We will see and I will let you know everything next week so we can all be on the same page and have a good ole time on Christmas. Usually they let us call on Christmas Eve to make sure everything works out but we will see what happens with the new mission pres. I am very excited to see you all on Christmas invite whoever to come see :) 

Well the work in our area is incredible.. I guess. This past week we went up to transfer meetings and when our pres told us who and where we were going he stopped on ours and said Golden Gate taught 29 lessons last week... Who has taught this many lessons in the past week month or 6 months.... I can see that the Lord is definitely blessing me and my companion as we are working diligently. I love this work and can't wait to continue on with it. 

Fidel is doing so awesome. He and his WHOLE family came to the brach christmas party, church and a baptism. That is huge progress!! They are trying so hard to do what it takes to be baptized and I can't wait for the day when they actually will be. They love the gospel and know it is true!! Well I am really really sorry but this is all I have time for today, know I have to go out and teach and we have a bomb night set up so I am super excited!!! Just know everything here is going awesome and I love it some much!!

Dad this one is for you: I AM 100% COMMITTED

I love you all so much and can't wait to hear from you!!!

Peace!

Love,

Elder Williams

Austin's biggest fear

* Before Austin left on his mission we would watch a TV series on all 

of the scary snakes, gators, and everything else in Florida. He truly was

 freaked out most by the snakes. 

Dec 2, 2013

Happy Holidays to All!!

Crazy, it is December! I never ever imagined actually being on my mission for Christmas but now it is finally here. This Christmas is definitely going to be different then all the past Christmas's I have had so it will be a fun and exciting adventure! I never ever thought I would say this... But it actually got COLD this week. Say what?? Yeah thanksgiving morning it was cold! We live in a small house and the floors are all concrete and my feet froze!!!! It was 45 degrees outside, you are probably laughing at me because I think that is cold now days, but honestly I was freezing. Its going to be a rude awakening going back to Utah snow! Inside our apartment it was 60 degrees because in Florida well all the old houses at least there is no such thing as a heater so we just have to suffer through it. But it was awesome to finally stay dry one day! Ever sense, all the mornings have been really foggy which is awesome because it reminds me of home. I get to pretend that there are mountains behind all the fog and half the time I would think about all the foggy days I get to go snowboarding! Well guess its a winter wonderland... hahah not, today is back to its usual hot!!! 

Thank you guys soooooooooooo much for the package!!! It is awesome I love having a Christmas count down. I am still in unbelief that it is December 2 already! This Saturday we have transfer calls so I may or may not be in my same area I will let you know next Monday, chances are I will be staying here!

Thanksgiving was awesome! We have some really cool members in our branch that invited us over for dinner. The picture that you got, we were at our ward mission leaders house. They are an awesome family the had us over for dinner and pie. We played outside with them and there kids it was really an awesome day. I didn't get as homesick as I thought I would so that is always a plus. We also wanted to see Less actives that day because we knew they would be home. Some of them love to see us and some don't, but that's the missionary life. We recently got a super awesome family in our branch the one that sent the picture last Sunday. They also had us over on Thursday night, they are such a cool family and are really helping us out with the member missionary effort in this area. Our branch is small, it is powerful to see that so few people can do such great things and how much they can help in the missionary effort. 

As the missionary life goes it was a great week, a lot of people were out of town for the Holidays so we had to do what we could, which consisted of finding new Investigators. We found a few high school girls that were sitting at a table in the apartment park. These are the more rundown apartments so we knew they would have crazy back rounds. All we knew is that we could help change there life around and they were really accepting to it. It has been fun to see that people are able to change when they are able to notice Christ is really in the picture. We are helping them as much as we can, already they are improving and finding better ways to spend there time. I am excited for them and even a few of there families have wanted to listen to our message. It has been so exciting to see people change. Speaking of Change there is one of our investigators that is going through a really tough time and thought things just were going to work out, well then one day we invited her to come to church and she accepted. She has two little kids and her name is Lisa, she came to church on sunday and now I am excited to see how this week plays out with her!

I am sorry time is so short and it seems like it is everyweek but I have to go now so I love you all and I hope you have a wonderful week. Remember the reason for the season! 

Happy Holidays!!!

Love,

Elder Williams