New Year's and the Temple

Happy New Years Everyone!  This week has been great!  Hugh was baptized on Saturday, and that was a great experience for everyone involved.  Elder Liu was able to baptize him, and Todd Oliver, the Elders Quorum President in the Kingsway YSA ward confirmed him on Sunday.  It was a great chance, and I loved talking to Hugh afterwards about how he felt and the whole experience.  I am so excited for the journey he has started.

This week we have been pretty cold, which presents some challenges to proselyting.  It is not very safe to be outside for very long sometimes, and that can be a big concern when we don't have set appointments.  But having the car permanently does decrease that... a little bit.  Elder Liu and I have been doing lots of finding.  After we teach Hugh all of the Recent Convert lessons, we will not have anyone left to teach!  Well, hopefully we get in  contact with a few of the people Elder Liu was teaching before I got here and be able to meet with them.  But I am really hoping that we can find a family to teach.  We have run into a few while doing phone book finding, so that has been fun, but no one to accept return appointments.  So hopefully that changes pretty quick.  Other than that, not a terrible lot has happened this week.  I was on exchanges with Elder Jeffs again, which I enjoyed.  But we keep doing exchanges on Tuesday-Wednesday, which means that language study messes things up.

Anyway, I hope everyone is having a great start to their new year.  Miss you all!

Elder Ethington

Hugh was baptized January 3, by Elder Liu

This picture was taken New Year's Eve at 4pm. The days are short!

On Monday, January 5, the whole mission attended the temple with President and Sister Manion