Thomas, Brexten

Yooo what's up! It's ya favorite elder!! We are wishing yall a merry Christmas from Shallotte! Hope yall got what you wanted for Christmas!! I sure got spoiled but before I dive into that lots get into a snow packed ;) week!!  Tuesday: we had a day drove over 200 miles and legit passed out of exhaustion! But it's all good we had a good couple lessons and just got some work done and had a good dinner with the branch president and we came up with what we can do to better strengthen the branch! We still bapstin!! So that's lit!! Saw god through Turning to him in all things! I was dog tired today but I prayed for energy and I got it from somewhere! I got it from God! He is my strength when I'm tired!  Wednesday-Sunday: I have stayed in our apartment with my comp all week! He has been sick and so have I we have been doing work though while we are inside but this next week we are gonna work hard to make sure that we get ready for our friend Essie and her baptism on the 30...

Aight! Rack em up! Another p day and another week done and dusted! Time goes by a lot slower now but it still goes by if that makes any sense haha anyway ya boi is still MAGA tired but we always keep on trucking! So let's fire iit up' Tuesday: we had spent a half min in myrtle Beach for our first extended dcm and it went good! We do an extra role play and have a companionship teach and then we give em feedback and watch em change their teaching to fit the person! Then after we had like 6 lessons and it was so cool to see how the lord makes up the difference! People ask us all the time how old we are and I say 18 and they are like nah and I'm like ya!  Then they say wow! So it's cool to see where the lord makes us wiser then we are!  Wednsday: We had a day haha we just did a lot of busy work in Shallotte all day there isn't really a lot of work to do down here but we had a lesson with Cole and that was cool he is a lit dude and is getting ready for bapstim! And then ...

Sooooo ya boi is kinda pimpin for Christmas haha and may have went a little to over board haha! But when you and your comp are the only north carolina missionaries you get a little board haha! SO WHY NOT HAVE A LITTLE COUNTRY AND A LITTLE CHRISTMAS!!! LETS GET ITTTT!!!! so we as been so busy this week that i almost forgot about my email haha but none the less i was reminded to write one this week so here we go its gonna be short but its aight   we had the baptism of our friend shianne and it was so cool to see how the spirit of the lord was in all things that we did this week! we were able to find a bunch of people this week and we still have 3 more baptisms to go so we are chillin! but im so sorry this was short! im doing good and im so exhausted haha we have so much work to do and it feels like not a lot of time to get done but we are hanging in there and we are gonna kill it just need a little help from yall to get it done so pray for me and my area and we are gonna get it ...

Now that im finally done saying sorry for the short emails!! We are back to our regular scheduled programing this week so letz get it boi! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Oh yeah baby LETS GO!! UTAH IS VEGAS BORN & VEGAS BOUND BABY AND WE ARE GONNA GO POUND FOR POUND THIS WEEK!! Let's get ittttttt!  Tuesday: we started of sluggish but we were able to shake it off and work through it! Our area is so massive that it takes us 45 to an hour just to get back home! We were able to find some people when I first got here and we are going back to teach them soon! Now that I'm out here on my own! I have seen god in all the little details of life! It's amazing!  Wedsnday: man talk about being tried! That's ya boi but hey obedience is key baby!! So just grinded today! I fifnally felt like a European elder who just walks and knocked doors because that is about all that we did today (my love goes out to all of yall though because it takes an elect mind and an eve...