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| Coleman and Elder K at the temple on Friday |
Well I'm finally writing to y'all!
Hope everything is going well for all my family and friends. We've had a good two weeks in Greenville Alabama. As those of you who follow the mission blog can tell, we've had a lot of meetings/activities this month. We had the opportunity to go to the temple last Friday, which was really nice! We (Elder Kelley and I) are busy gearing up for a Greenville Branch Christmas Social that we'll be having on Wednesday. We'll have a dinner and a program with music - I was able to get the mission violin on Friday for it. [By the way I did give the Holzapfels fudge at the luncheon].
Not a whole lot of new investigators in the last week. We've met a lot of different people, but not a lot of them were really interested in what we had to say. S--- came to church on Sunday and we're still teaching her. Unfortunately, nobody else came! I was expecting way more people than that. We were hoping that B--- and A--- (and A---'s kids) would be there as well. We've tried to see a lot of less actives this week, which has been hard since we are out of miles (on our car) for the month because of all the Birmingham & Montgomery trips. On Saturday with President N-- we went out to a disabled member's house and rebuilt a wheelchair ramp for him.
We had exchanges last week with our zone leaders. Elder Sawyer (from Pete and Laura's ward) spent a day with Elder Kelley and me. He's a great missionary and we all had a good time. He helped us brainstorm finding ideas and ways we can be more effective in the area. (He decorated the gingerbread man in the picture with a bite in its head.)
I wanted to take a minute to thank family and friends for the packages, letters and Christmas cards. I keep and treasure them all, and it's feels good to know that people are thinking about me and praying for me.
Greenville (as you have undoubtedly deduced from my letters) has proved to be a pretty slow area. It's pretty small and people aren't that interested in listening to us. Sometimes we are frustrated (I'd be lying if I said that we were always perfectly happy) but overall we are satisfied with the work we are accomplishing here. It will take time to make this branch here a thriving branch, but we're doing it one step at a time, trying to lengthen our stride every day.
I love you all. Thank you for your prayers. I hope that you all are having (and will continue to have) a great holiday season.
Love
Elder Madsen
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