Happy Thanksgiving! November 24, 2009

Hey!So a lot has happened since I emailed last week. One of the assistants to the President told me that I will be getting transferred next month. It will be hard to leave this area especially after being here for 6 months. I will be getting transferred 2 days before Christmas. This area is doing great. Anyway, we've picked up a few new investigators. One of them is an 11 year old boy named Aj. He is Bishop Smith's nephew, and has been going to church for over 3 years, but his mom never let him meet with missionaries and get baptized until now. He should be getting baptized the first week or so in December. We started teaching another guy named Walter and his 11 year old son Dj too. I'm thinkin' they might take a while to get ready for baptism, but we'll see. Our area has 3 more baptisms before this transfer ends so I'm excited about it. That will mean that we will have had a total of 14 in our area since I've been here! Holla! Haha. I love the work. We are still teaching Debbie and getting her ready to get baptized on Dec.12th. She is doing great...I love teaching her. Her husband JJ is getting active along the way as well and has great imput on the lessons. He served a mission and everything, but I'm not sure what happened along the way to make him go inactive. I was on exchanges in my area with Elder Asplund and we had a blast. We came out on our missions at the same time, but we didn't know each other before the mission. It's funny because we are both from California, we went to BYU-I at the same time, went to the same parties, and he was even at my apartment complex all the time, but we didn't meet until our missions. We both plan on going back to BYU-I and being roomates. The exchange we by way fast and we had a great day doing the work. We taught Debbie and JJ that night, and when we left, they told me that if I'm not going to be at one of their lessons, they don't want to meet. They want me to be there. When Debbie set her baptism date she asked me if I was going to be here still because she wants to make sure I am there. It made me feel really good. :) They are great people and I can't wait to see Debbie enter the waters of baptism. One of our 9 year old investigators Chase Atwood got baptized on saturday. It was a very nice service. Sister Smart, the grandmother, gave a great talk on the Holy Ghost, and before Chase was confirmed, Sister Pulham and some others did a beautiful musical number with a violin and singing. The song was, "I am a child of God." I could tell that Chase's mom, Jolene, could feel the Spirit. She has been inactive, but hopefully she will continue to come to church now that he has been baptized. After the baptism, they invited us to their home for lunch. We decided to go and we had a great time. I love the people in my area, it's definetly going to be hard to leave. This will be a place I will come back to a visit. So thursday is Thanksgiving, and we have that whole day off to spend with members, so this p-day is only a half p-day until 1pm. Our mission president said that we can watch Disney/Pixar, etc. movies that are rated G, and anything else needs to be approved. Our plan is to get together with other missionaries and watch some movies at a members home. The Jensen family has a really nice movie theatre in their home, and so from 8am-12 we are going to watch movies! We are going to watch Up!, Monsters vs. Aliens, and I'm not sure what else, but I'm excited. Then after that we will be going to the Tidwells for a few hours. We're gonna have our family favorite Bean Dip!!! Sister Tidwell is getting the stuff to make it and then I'm gonna put it together. Then later in the day I'm not sure what we will be doing quite yet. A lot of people have invited us, but we still need to finalize plans. Sleeping would be nice. Haha. We went to the Boutiful Temple this morning for the 6am session, which means I had to get up at 4:30am to get ready and get to the Temple on time. We went with Elder Asplund and Elder Cordier. After that, we went to Wal-Mart to get a few things, and then we went to Starbucks!!! Ahh it it was soooo good. I haven't had it in forever! It was amazing lol. I got the package you sent me...thank you, your the best! Anyway, the work is going well and my testimony is strong. I love you all and miss you so much. I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I am very thankful for each and every one of you. You mean so much to me, I don't know what I would do without you. I wish I could be there to celebrate with you on Thursday, but I will be keeping you in my thoughts. Tell everyone I said hi and that I love and miss them. Continue to share the Gospel with everyone. It is so important. You will be blessed greatly for doing the Lord's work. I love you! The church is true!!!Love, ~ Elder Micheal Watts

One of them is a big group picture of a few zones of the Ogden Utah Mission, and then the other is of Sister Falemoa and me. She is so funny lol, I love Samoan people. :)