Turkey Week

Hello Family,

Is this Turkey Week?  I think starting this week, we are only going to sing the Christmas hymns for companionship study.  The transfer ends the day after Christmas.

We had a good week.  This past Saturday, there was a Stake activity.  The youth did a "pioneer dance" to Cotton Eyed Joe.  It was fun.  Jefferson, one of the kids we are teaching, participated with his friend.  Since the rest of the young men in the ward were not man enough, Jefferson and Joel represented two of the four young men who participated.  They really like Mutual (youth program).  They just asked them if they wanted to dance in the performance and they said "yes".

We have found some really good people this week.  During one of our lessons, we were teaching a mother and her daughter, Karol.  It was the second lesson for Karol, but the first for her mother.  I am not sure what the mother was expecting in the lesson but I think she was pretty impressed by what she felt about what we taught.  They seem to be a pretty heavy Catholic family.  She said that if her daughter received an answer to her prayer that this was the true religion, she could continue listening to us.  We asked Karol is she had read and prayed about the Book of Mormon.  She didn’t say anything at first but then started to cry and said that her father did not want her to continue with us.  We still need to figure out exactly what happened between them, but we are hoping to try and teach him to soften his heart like the mom.  I think sometimes people accept to listen to us because they think they will be able to poke their finger at our beliefs because of all the things they hear that other people say about our church.  Sometimes they are a little dismayed when they find that the Book of Mormon contains the purest form of Christianity they have ever seen.  I have taught a few pastors like that.

Things are going well.  We have got some good people for our program in December.  Things are pretty cool.  I am excited for the package.  Elder Johnson keeps beating me in chess.  He’s got me twice now.  If he was just beating me, I wouldn’t get so frustrated.  I think it doesn’t matter how many comebacks you can make if you keep making stupid mistakes.  It is kind of the house of cards thing.  Anyways, it has been fun, but I think we need to watch the board games.  Things got a little out of control last year on Christmas and New Years when we were locked up in our house and played about 10 games of Monopoly.  It got a little crazy.  We have just been playing the chess games over the span of several days during our free time.  For example, one guy moves while the other brushes his teeth.  I think we are going to have to limit it to a p-day activity because it has been getting a little too emotionally involved for me.  Sometimes I have trouble studying because I find myself staring at the board. Je Je

Well, hope to hear from you soon. 

Love Mr. Viktor

Feely:  Here are a few of the questions bounding around in Nan's soul:
In a relationship, why does it only need one smart comment to completely knock down the other 50 times you decided to just bite your tongue because you didn't have anything nice to say?  It is kind of like building a house of cards.

What does it say about you if you always feel someone is implying something about you but never comes out and says it?  Is that just your conscience freaking out or do some people have an innate ability for the implicit?