Hey Mom! 

Yeah last night at about 3 a.m. it got down to -3 with a wind chill of -36. Very cold! Thank you so much for the package and I liked all the little notes. I love it all of course.  Elder and Sister Wilson are the best. Yeah I did need at least one more pair so thank you for all of that stuff. It is nice up here. Beautiful mountains. Especially with all of the snow. 

Hazelton is great. We are teaching a ton. Lots and lots of work to be done here. We are teaching over 20 lessons a week. We have 8 people with a baptism date that are progressing and will make their date. One is a family of 9 and that have a couple that are too young still. The other is O. He is awesome. The work is only growing. Our Spanish group should turn into a branch soon enough which will be so awesome. I'm loving it here, and we have members who are so ready to work. Brother J is over the Spanish group. He is white but served a Spanish speaking mission and still kept it with him, and it has definitely come in handy with all of this. We go on splits with him and P who is a new member every Saturday now. Me and Elder Kelly are doing great. He is awesome. He is actually going to give me a voice lesson cause I asked if he would haha. It should be interesting. So I saw Jake again! Cause we are in the same Zone so we had Zone training and me and him did a role play together. He was telling me how crazy it is we are here together and I gotta come see him after the mission and all that. It's been great to see him again. He is also a district leader and will be such a great missionary. Well already is. Also I am serving around people I haven't seen in a bit either so it's nice. We have to drive about an hour though to get to Zone training. Next Monday the whole mission is getting together because we have some general authorities coming in for some big thing. So we are all very excited about that. It's nice to be in a car and driving again. I am the senior companion. I feel like I might be training next transfer though as well. We are getting lots of Spanish missionaries. What is funny though is that we just switched zones when I came in from Reading to Scranton. If we stayed in Reading then Elder Newbold would have been my Zone leader. It'll be good to see him again. I love the guy. I learned a lot, and he really helped me. So we are doing great here. Just trying to figure out all this district leader stuff! Also just finding lots of new people to teach. Like last night we went to a wrong address but ended up finding a family to teach. So we will see how it goes. 

Sounds like the new mission president is awesome. I remember the sisters in my district from the MTC talking about him. Cause that's where they went. That is crazy though! Just following President Durrant. It was cool to see him give the closing prayer at the end of the Christmas Devotional I believe it was. It'd be cool to meet him when I return. Yeah I left a plaque with R and A and also with J. They are just so awesome. I can't wait till you all can come and meet them. It would be awesome if Daniel and Jordan were able to come up. All of The Districts are real for sure. Those missionaries are super awesome. We watch a lot of those here. We use them in our training. 

We are working with people on family history as well. Some get really excited about it honestly, and it is a great way to help them get excited about the temple. 

I definitely like all of those quotes, but that first one a lot. I've never been so worried about other people I feel like and what I can do to help them progress and be happier. Just seeing the change it brings to people is huge.  Some people just get so offended so easily and stuff. Everyone really just needs to be aware of that because it can be just a huge downfall. 

That (patriarchal blessing) would definitely be good for her (Megan) to have. I know I have read mine a lot and seen things that have come to pass. It is a very special and sacred thing to have. I never really understood the meaning of it I felt like until I got out here. It's like my eyes have been opened up and I see things a lot differently than before. But I am so grateful for that. 

I did! Lol I saw it (Krispy Kreme) and we had to turn around. Elder Tryon was driving. We said all of our fat senses just kicked in lol. Well I love you mom and I'll will talk to ya again soon! Talk to ya soon and thank you for the package again! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur