Okay so I have a lot of over dew shout outs to make... mostly because I am really bad about writing back and so at leats you all know how much I love and appreciate the mail and packages that I get! Seriuosly they are like first snow on chrismas status! I have the best family and friends (including my ward family whom I love dearly). So if you have sent me something and have not received something back please know that I do infact love you and will try to get a letter back your way pronto! But in missionary life pronto can be a lonnnnnng time! But that does not lessen my love, if anything it strengthens over time!

So updates on my friends and family out here...

TONY: he is 3 1/2 days smoke free which means he is right on tract to be baptized on the 13th of Dec! We are having 3 lessons a week with him and they are great! He is amazing! He has said the opening prayer to each of our lessons this week and I am almost in tears by the time he is done. He invites the spirit into our lesson like I have never had before. So needless to say is doing great!

BILL: we had a great 20 min phone lesson with bill this week. We had called him to confirm our lesson for that night and he called back on his way home from work and said that he could only meet in 30 min... but we had a lesson in 30 min so that obviously would not work. So he said okay you have 20 min. What would you teach someone if you only had 20 min left to ever teach them... I know what you are thinking AHHHH I was to. So pretty much we started by bearing our testimonies and then had one of the best discussions with him that we have had yet! He also came to church yesterday because we were speaking!

DESTINY: okay this is my personal favorite part of the work this week! It could be a really long story but I dont have time for that... so I will shorten it and hope that it will make sense! We are walking down the street to an other part of our area that was much further then I realized when I planned it last night, but there was a woman that I really felt like we needed to see. So me jokingly said to s. kemp "Who planned this anyways..." because we now had to walk way past our app. even though we would be walking back for lunch 45 min later.

So we are walking and stop to talk to this girl. We get talking and she tells us that she her boyfriend is sick and begged her to go to the store to get something for him... As we talk getting to the gospel part of the conversation she tells us that she grew up with a church but she had only been in Ventura for 2 months and that she is looking for a church... BOOM miracle. We keep talking and she tells us that her boyfriends dad is mormon... I ask out of curiosity what his name is and she tells me Brandon (insert last name).... BOOM miracle (this boyfriend of hers is someone that sis hiatt and I tried to get a hold of because she knew his dad from one of her other areas)... she is so excited at this point and we are trying not to scream from all the miracles that are unfolding right before our very eyes... (if you were there you would understand a little bit more) and then we pull out the SWORD aka the book of mormon! I ask her if she likes to read and she says .."Yes I love to read and I just finished my book last night and told brandon that I need a new one!" BOOM miracle! she was not only happy to get the book of mormon but she was EXCITED to read it! there are those people that you give one to and think to yourself... yeah they are probably not going to read that. And then there are the people like Destiny who look at it and hold it like it is Gold!!!!!! So needless to say it was great!

As we walked away sis kemp turns and teases be by saying.... "Yeah who planned that anyway?"

Moral of the story... BOSS! Im not going to lie I was a little heart broken by your email last week, its a good thing I got a bigger one this week or I dont think that I would have made it through the week! Plus people are always asking how you are doing and I need more to tell them then you are tiered and need to clean your room... Joke jokes! Holly cow this week was crazy. We had zone conference so we were gone for like 2 whole days. But it was amazing. President talked about desire and spirit of the law vs letter of the law. I was thoroughly chastized by the spirit and have repented! got to love that. No but I feel like it lit me back on fire to finish the second last of the transfer strong.

I have so much more that I wanted to share but that is all that I have time for this week! I hope you all have a great week! Please keep praying for Tony! 

Anything you need in this life you can find in the the scriptures. The Book of Mormon is a Cool story bro... read it again!!!

Sister Draney