Hi Everyone!!:)                          Oh yea and my full address is 370 w. cherry st. #2 North Liberty, Iowa 52317. Ha I forgot my apartment number.

      Man Thanksgiving was awesome!! Wednesday we went out to this place called West branch to eat with some members (I guess they were having their Thanksgiving a little early) but that was great. The Hermanas in the ward came with us and we shared a little message and said what we were thankful for. Then on Thanksgiving morning we went to the church to play ball with a lot of members and then at 9 some members from the married-student ward came and were ready to play volleyball, so we set up the nets and got to play volleyball. Once we were finished with that we went back to get ready to go to the Henstroms for dinner. There was one kid there that was roommates with Hailey stone's older brother so that was pretty cool. But yea we got way full from that dinner, and then we were thinking about who else we could go and visit and we thought of our recent-converts the Dillons, so we called them up and they told us to come on over. Of course, they made us eat again so I was about ready to explode. It was a really good evening though because we also got a lot of work done that night. Rebeccah(their neighbor) was over at their house and we had been chatting with her quite a bit before that but she wasn't really open to learning more about the church, but then of course we got back on the subject and we taught her about the Book of Mormon and why it is so important about knowing the truth. Then we invited her to be baptized and it took her a long time to accept but I wasn't going to leave with out a yes ha. And we also talked to the dad who didn't get baptized and talked about how his progression was going and he said that it was going good and that he has been having thoughts about taking that next step:) I was really excited to hear that. He is way cool guy. He gives us rides to places whenever we don't have the car and he comes to church every Sunday so he is already doing some of the hardest parts of being a member of the church. But yea that was a really good night and now we are just going to keep teaching them together. We taught them both during 3rd hour yesterday at church and Rebeccah doesn't think that their is a true church. Ha so I asked her if the church Christ set up when he came to the Earth was true and she said, yea in his own mind it was true..... I was like What!!! Haha so yea she has a hard time with understanding that there really is truth out there and you can really find it with the help of Heavenly Father.

            So on an opposite note. Pam and Shawn did not get baptized last Saturday. Pam is still married to this guy who left them and lives in Chicago, so this guy still has custody over Shawn. So we told them to call him and make sure that it was okay that Shawn got baptized and I also said that I would talk to him. So yea the dad said that he wasn't willing to talk to me and told Shawn that he shouldn't get baptized! So without the support of his dad, Shawn didn't want to get baptized anymore which then made Pam decide that she wasn't going to do it either! Pretty frustrating! We had them all interviewed and the baptismal service was basically all set up so I wasn't very happy about that. I also am really sad that they aren't going to enter into this covenant and receive all the blessings that come from it. I told Pam that she needs to set the example and still go through with it, but she said that she just needed some time. I think her family really doesn't like the church so they give her a lot of crap about it. It was really too bad. But Elder Ragozzine and I have been doing some good finding. We have a few potential families that we knocked into that seemed really nice so I'm excited to see if we can share a lesson with them.

        I'm so glad that Uncle Blayne is hanging in there and also Grandpa. It sounds like you all had a blast. And Mom that is awesome about your experiences with sharing the gospel. I bet the missionaries are just leaping for joy!! Ha I always get really excited when a member tells us that they have someone that is kind of interested so that's great. Ha and what is the RS meeting. But anyways I love you all so much and hope that you are enjoying the Holidays!! Thanks for everything:)

Love, Elder Polatis