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Hello!

Hope all is going well with the snow storm and stuff. Maybe this will be read a couple days after I send it due to power outages, we'll see.

We got to do some good shoveling with the snow we got last week- that is pretty much all we did last Wednesday. I'm not sure if I would want to live here after realizing that shoveling driveways and stuff is kind of a pain. Haha but with that comes icicles. We've been having a good time with icicles. They are fun to knock down and throw around and so on- good stress relief. We are always on the look out for a good icicle. We have seen some well over six feet tall. The missionary life is exciting! Haha

Cool experience- Saturday we were having bad luck with everybody -- nobody was home. We got to the point where we went through our plans, back up plans and everybody that had come to mind. It was evident that we were needed somewhere else, we just didn't know where. So what do you do when God knows something that you don't? You pray! So we did and then Elder Wagner got the impression that we should call Paul from the English ward. We did and immediately knew why he had come to mind- he had just gotten out of his nephew's funeral and said it was horrible.
He didn't take his death very well and so he was in need of comfort, so a God sent us his way. We had a good time with him and a good lesson with him. I know that God used us as instruments to help him out and show Paul the love that He has for him. That was a good experience.

The work is going forward here in Newburgh. I am so glad I'm still here. At this point I might just push to stay here for the long haul, the rest of the mission. Haha we'll see. Anyways, we're anticipating like six baptisms this transfer cycle. I just had one if our investigators email me telling me she wants to get baptized, ASAP, so we're going to set that up for the 22nd. Should be good! The other guys' area is blowing up. They had ten investigators at church Sunday.  We're pushing to get a set of sisters to come in and cover everything except for the city of Newburgh, and then we Elders would split the city of Newburgh. We'll see what is going on in five weeks! We talked with President Romero and he can feel the work moving forward. We're all getting excited and happy to see the way things are going. Be looking out for the second coming, it's on it's way!

To keep things going forward, we are working together to support and help one another in the great work. We are trying to make it a habit to just talk to one another when we see each other, really ask how one another is doing and then uplift and encourage one another. As we share experiences and testimony with one another, we build each other up. That builds unity and builds other people up too. We all are benefited as we minister to one another. So that is he hat we're working on and that's going to keep things blowing up. Gotta love it!

Things are great! Hope things are okay back home and the ice isn't getting you down. Have a great week and I'll "talk" to you next week!

-Elder Griffiths