Christmas Day Email

Sorry about all the short emails, I blocked out more time to write this today. First off: merry Christmas. This is such a wonderful holiday to celebrate families, giving and Christ. These past few weeks have been a little crazy, but I'm starting to adjust to my new area. I went from serving on campus to serving in a family stake not too far from my old area, but now I'm serving with families instead of college kids, so it's a little different. It's been an awesome four months as a missionary (but who's counting?). Just before I left my last area, Cara came to church, which was awesome. It's been amazing to watch as she has progressed and felt the peace of Christ. She once stated, "when I came to your church it felt good and I felt peace, and that's why I want to be a Mormon." This Christmas (and the last few weeks) have been white with snow, which has been wonderful. I love the snow. I've heard many people who don't, who think I've never seen the bad side of snow, but I certainly have had times where my eyeballs freeze and every muscle aches because of all the snow, and still I love it. It's beautiful. It's fun. It brings out a little bit of childlike excitement. It softens sound and can be made into caves and men, balls and angels, and all manner of fun activities require snow. Love y'all- pictures of the snow attached.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas y'all. Last week was transfers so I'm now in a family stake (though still serving near Logan) and I have a new companion- Elder Shaw. He's pretty great- into coins, trains, and Legos. So sorry this is so short, but I don't have much time so I just wanted to say merry Christmas and I love y'all.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!!

This week we got to watch the First Presidency Christmas devotional with all the missionaries here in Logan, so that was fun. I really liked all the stories about the families nativity experiences because they reminded me of home (if you haven't seen it I'm sure you can find it at comeuntochrist.org or with a quick Google search). I may have been the cause if pandemonium nights in my family many times. This week we're going to talk about what works best on and what is different about college campuses, and it will be transfers in a week and a half, so we should see some changes soon.

The institute also had a get to know the missionaries game night which was pretty fun, but most of the people who weren't the ones planning it left early so we didn't really get to know all that many people. It was still fun though. That's all for this week, love y'all!!

Elder Daniel Watts

P. S. I've officially hit 3 months, only 21 to go.

President Holly and I