Happy New Year!

Hello Friends and Family!

This week was good! We had a ton of fun and were really sore from working out and walking a lot and playing football and Frisbee on Friday. It was a blast though! Happy New Year!!!!! :) It's been a great year so far. :) I'm really happy about it. :) Just working hard and having fun! It was a good week this week with the new year! Celebrated the usual missionary way with a box of party from Mom. :) It was so much fun. :)

Nothing special going on this week. :) We have a normal week this week. Back to work. We're trying out a new plan that we'll be taking to President if it works. Of course we won't be able to do much work on Monday because of P-Day but we'll be working with this new initiative. We call it the NBD 123. :) 1 Active Member Lesson. 2 Less Actives/Recent Convert Lessons. 3 Other Lessons (Tracting Etc.) If it really works we'll be able to share it with President and then things will get interesting for the next missionaries. It'll be cool. :)

We hung out until the new year then went to bed. New Year's eve was more of a work day and we worked hard. It was awesome. :) On Friday Morning we went to IUPUI campus and played ultimate Frisbee and the elders played football in the freezing cold. They tested the tornado siren too. IT was funny to watch all the greenies who had never heard or seen them before freak out. hahaha :) Then we went to Fishers chapel until we had to go back home around 9. :) It was so much fun but I couldn't move by the night's end hahaha. :) Oh well. Slept so soundly that night. :)

Had district meeting! Oh and I'm in the same district as when I was in Fishers. So we went up to Fishers again and hung out with the sisters there. :) It was fun! Until we came back from lunch and the tire had popped. We ran over a screw on the way to the Fishers apartment. Dad you'd be so proud! I changed the tire. :) Hahaha I put on the donut and the sisters were astounded I could change the tire. It was so funny!

We've decided to try out something new for the area. Not sure how well it's going to work but we want to experiment with it to see how things go. We're both excited. We feel like it's going to change up the work in Zionsville. :) We were on our way to a lesson yesterday and a recent convert texted us asking if we could come over later last night and teach her son! It was the first time he had been to church I believe and he LOVED Gospel Principles! We were really excited to see what we could do for him. He's 13 years old and so excited about going to church next week! Also Nicole came to Church! It was so exciting! She wanted to be at church for so long and finally was able to do it. She brought her two little boys with her and wants to be baptized! We're working hard with her and just working hard in general! It was so cool to see her be there. :) All in all just a great week!

Hope you all had a Happy New Year! I did for sure! It's been so much fun. We're going to do great things for my last 9 weeks on the mission. :) Love you all!!!!!!

Love,

Sister Halverson