Happy New Year

January 1, 2013

Hey family! Pretty great skyping ya'll haha. I think there is something wrong with my senses or something because it didn't make me homesick at all! But ya'll are great and gorgeous! Thanks for everything you do.

This week has been good. Sorry I didn't email yesterday we had service so had to switch some p-day to today.

One thing really cool, Elder Smith (one of the reston elders) his mom sent me a lot of gluten free desserts haha! Way nice huh?! See Michael not only does the ward take care of you, but other elders' moms! haha It’s great. I am going to write her a thank you letter!

So it snowed a little bit the other day, but didn't stick! It was nice while it lasted!! haha The morning was probably like 2 inches! But then it just turned to rain and we got soaked because we were walking that whole day! "walk about wednesdays" as they call it! haha luckily for me I have a nice water proof coat! so nice.

HAhahah so the other day there was a lunch special at Texas de Brasil! haha It’s like a high end tucanos and we went! so good!!!!! I made sure to eat my money's worth!! I think there is one in SLC maybe! Ya'll should try it!

New years we watched “Up” and “Brave” as a zone! It was really good. And after there was a lady from the local ward who brought us popcorn and brought her son who just got home from his mission and she needed a blessing so me and Elder Polkowske helped out. I annointed and the son sealed it and gave the blessing. And the words were really fascinating and made me think a lot. One line said like Heavenly Father has allowed you to have these certain challenges in your life so you can grow. It’s so true. I just never really thought of it like that!! Because God loves us He is going to give us certain obstacles to over come and grow and progress! I liked that.

The other day as we were leaving the library I was wearing the winter hat (the one in the pics) and some homeless guy waved me over. At this point I was like sweet! He must know where javier and timoteo are (we couldn’t find them) and we get over there and he's like give me that hat!! I'm like whoa bro take it easy. He's like no I sleep all day and night in the cold! (dropping explitives all over the place haha) I'm like I can't it’s not mine, it’s my old comps and it’s cold today and it’s all I got! But I was like next Monday if you want I can buy you one. He's like no blah blah beep beep beep. Then he lit up his smokes! So I was like well keep up the faith and he dropped some more bombs then we left! Afterwards I started feeling bad because of a certain scripture I read earlier that morning...how if we don't give to the poor and needy we don't give to Christ. As you do unto the least of these ye have done it unto me, and as ye haven't done it unto the least of these ye haven't done it unto me. So I was like great.....! So that was pretty disappointing ha.... man.

On Sunday we had the great opportunity to direct traffic at the temple for the festival of lights! It was so fun to do that!!! Loved it! Met a lot of great people and just had so much fun! A couple peeps from my ward came and were just pumped to see me haha not sure why they see me all the time! But it made me feel good! The older guy in charge of us Elder Hardy, knows Bill and Art Lifferth! Pretty cool.

Synthroid is coming?! Sweet thanks this is the last week so awesome!!!

Today at d-mtgs I shared about goals and how dad would sit me down and talk a lot of goals and where I want to be in this amount of time, especially with soccer! Fitz asked me to talk about goals so I brought that up. I really am grateful that pops taught me a lot about goals and achieving them and becoming successful. I hope you all set new goals and become the people God knows you can be this year!

Well love you all so much! Can't describe in words! Just so appreciative for everything you do! I am doing good!

Con amor,

Elder Andrew Lifferth