Christmas sometimes DOES come early!

Miracles still happen today!

In our apartment, we have hook ups for a washer and dryer, but we lack a washer and dryer, so we have to take our laundry elsewhere and pay for every load we use. This may not sound so awful, but mothers will cringe when I mention that because of that, we tend not to wash things like bedsheets very often because we don't want to spend the extra money. Well the other day, I threw some things in the Washer and dryer closet to store them, and made the joke "hope we don't get a washer and dryer anytime soon". 3 hours later, we got a call from the missions housing coordinator saying that they had just closed a missionary apartment down, and had a washer and dryer they needed to get rid of, and asked if we could keep it in our apartment. You're darn right!

On a more spiritual note, after several weeks of banging our heads into the wall we had run into, we found an opening, and moved a little further! Two less active families we have starting working with lately came to church on Sunday! They really enjoyed it, and the ward did a super job on fellowshipping! We were so happy to see some progress, and we found out that one of them might have two unbaptized daughters! God DOES answer prayers! It's just that whole in His own time and own way thing tends to throw me off, because naturally, I'm selfish, and I want things in my own time, and my own way! Luckily, I don't decide that, and Heavenly father, who does, is much much smarter than I am. I am eternally grateful none the less.

On a final note, I want to end with a thought that I got from my companion, that I really enjoyed, and it is about service. Now, it would be pretty easy to get into a lengthy discussion about works, and about what gets you into heaven, and what utlimately saves us in the end. Does doing good things get you into heaven? No. I could spend my whole life doing nothing but serving other people, and if I do not do the core things that Christ has asked me to do, then that will prevent me from achieving the exaltation that he has planned for me. But, while doing good things won't neccesarily get me into heaven, a lack of good things will keep me from it.

So what have you done for people lately?

I love and miss you all!

Elder Keenan Monnett