Elder Alec Lange: Spread this wonderful gift you have

This week was really good. We didn't do anything on new years because of drunk drivers so we had to be in by 6. We got to bed like an hour early. It felt super good! That's like the best thing that we could do is take a nap haha. We've been teaching quite a bit which is super good and super bad at the same time. Its good because we have been having baptisms like crazy but super bad because its hard to keep a solid teaching pool of progressing investigators. We had a baptism this week of a family but the kid didn't get baptized. He doesn't come to church because he thinks its boring but what kid likes church? He also doesn't really think its very important when we come over. He likes having us over and getting taught be I don't know if it really sticks with him. He did go to the baptism and loved it though. He thought it was one of the coolest things he saw. So he will get baptized pretty soon. Then we have a kid that has been taking the lessons for a while and will get baptized pretty soon. He struggles a lot and it's hard because his family doesn't support him. Which is weird because everyone in his family is baptized and go to church every week. They don't really get the difference between supporting him and letting him choose for himself. We are going to try to work with the family more. His name is Kaylab and loves having us over. He is super cool just kind of has a hard time with his life. The Frees are doing super good! They are completely off cigarettes and are getting baptized on the 16th. They have been smoking for over 50 years. Imagine how hard that would be for them. Its amazing to see them progress. This week I'm going to be doing some exchanges so that should be super fun. I like exchanges and just helping missionaries one on one. Learning where they came from and learning why they do the things they do. It helps you love them so much more! One thing I would just like you to think about is how lucky you are to have the gospel in your life. It is really the most desirable thing someone can think of. You could offer me the best job, tons of money and super awesome family and I would pick the gospel 100 percent of the time. Its weird to think how lucky we are to have the gospel. People search for this their whole lives and cant find it and we just sit here with it in our hands. A lot of times we just throw it around like its nothing and now that I'm out on my mission I can never think of why I would ever do that. I love you guys. Just take a minute to think how lucky you are to have the gospel and why the Lord gave it to you and not someone else. Do something with it. Spread this wonderful gift you have!

Happy New Year from Elder Lange and Elder Shaw!!!