David's letter January 4, 2010

Dear Family,

Things are going well here I get to stay here with Elder Harding for 6 more weeks at least. Things are starting to pick up here we are truly being blessed with families to work with and new investigators. we picked up a new investigator this week who we are also teaching tonight at bishops house for family home evening. Bishops wife is almost exactly like great grandma smith its pretty funny. Matt is only 14 years old and is the only one in his family who comes to church he comes with his friend Casey who is a recent convert also they are both really good kids and love to come to church. It was pretty funny on New years eve we went to bishops and Casey was there because bishop was taking him and matt to the dance but casey needed a haircut before he went to the dance so Bishop asked if i would do it. It actually didn't turn out to bad he didn't care to much either so it worked out pretty good. We also had a cool inactive family come to church yesterday that was fun we didn't even know about them till we got a random call for a blessing there daughter has been struggling with some pretty crazy things it was an amazing spiritual experience and a humbling and learning experience. I was pretty scared going into the blessing Elder Harding asked if i could give it so we said a prayer before we went in and the Lord truely made up for my weaknesses I felt pretty inadiquate to give the blessing, we knew the family needed spiritual help and we were just praying like crazy that somehow we could help. The lord filled the gap like always i am so very thankful for that the spirit was way cool in that house and they are starting to see the changes they need to make to come back. The rest of our holidays were way fun the members we lived with on new years eve scared the heck out of us we had to be in early so we were just sitting at our desk when all of the sudden we hear this loud bang right by my window then right above us turns out he was chucking dinamite sticks at us it was pretty funny it was shaking the house. It was also pretty cool all fireworks are legal in the city of houston where we live. So we got to see some pretty cool fireworks. Thats cool to here that sacrament meeting was good and that Ben is doing good. Have a good week

Love Elder Rushton