a handicap robe thing

hello its good to hear from you. seems like everything is going great having a good time at bunko and things.. thats funny that dad went. man 20 things on the to do list today thats a lot but thats how most people are during the holidays i guess. and its kind of a bummer for us cuz the work slows down a little bit. but we are still staying busy. i received the packages that you sent im excited to see what they are thank you so much for it all. haha thats funny that your sending my comp some shampoo he'll love it. he's a pretty funny kid. a package with some homemade treats would be pretty sweet. man i love all your treats but i havnt had your big chocolate chip cookies for a while muddy buddies are amazing you know i love banana bread. toffee whatever you want to send but not too much cuz im trying to eat healthier remember haha. oh yeah and im not sure when she makes them but tammy's sugar cookies are incredible so if you could just remind her that that i love her and her cookies that would be appreciated. its hard to be healthy though especially around the holidays. seems like you guys are going to have a good christmas and christmas here should be good there is a lot of cool people that have invited us over and things. everything is going great its been a good week. we have been staying busy doing a good amount of teaching. justin adams is gettin baptized this saturday he's excited. his mom and brother arent there yet but, it was neat his brother is really against religion but he's come a long way and he's particapating in the lessons now and got mad at his parents cuz they didnt go to church cuz they were sick. he said if we are goin to go we got to go every week. so that was pretty cool. then we have the bindley girls that are on date for the day after christmas so that should be a way cool baptism. we had a good lesson with them yesterday. we had a really good lesson with a 13 year old girl. her mom just died but she is doing really good and came to church and loves young women she wants to know where and what her mom is doing and so we told her and how much god loves her and things and she really wants to read the book of mormon and go to church every day if she could so that was awesome. but those are the main people that we are teaching it was pretty funny today we went to the temple and they gave me a handicap robe thing so it was way small and short pretty funny everyone was laughing at me when i put it on. it was cool this week i went on an x change with a way cool missionary from new zealand. he is a really nice kid and he likes reggae like i do and stuff he said that i need to go down to his house and stuff and he would take me on a tour of new zealand and go to a reggae festival and stuff so i will probably have to take him up on it. he also taught me some really good card tricks so im going to buy a deck of cards today. but his companion is also really cool he's from utah but he's half eskimo half navajo but he likes a lot of really good music and he gave me some cds that he got approved. like sufjan stevens and iron and wine so. that would be awesome if logan or someone had some spare time made me some mixes of stuff like that and if the lyrics are appropriate and their chill then the mission pres's wife will approve them and then i would have amazing cd's instead of the same regular church music that every missionary has. thats would be amazing even some really chill reggae if you think it could be appropriate . oh we went down by the lake the other day and we got some really good pics that im going to try to make a christmas card with and we also saw 3 bald eagles they were on the tree right above us and all flew away it was neat. i think that is about it tell everyone i love them and mandy i have been writting a letter to you for the last few days its hard to find time sorry but i will finish and send it to you. but thank you so much for all the love and support you guys are the best love you so much and enjoy the holidays
love elder knaphus