Merry Christmas!

Dec. 23 email:
well its good to hear from you all and especially that dad is ok. good to hear that you got my christmas card and pictures. haha to do a little explaining. the house that is a mess is anothers missionaries appartment and we destroyed it becuase they did it to us it was pretty funny if you look close you can see a live snake hanging from the ceiling. the pictures of the pond is right outside of our windows one morning. the Christmas tree wasnt ours. ours is really nice. we were 4 wheelin out in the boonies of our area its fun out there the van gets super muddy. the big house in ahwatukee was larry fitzgeralds that snake that was around my neck was just some members that we ate dinner with. if you have any other questions with the pics fill free to ask. but good to hear that trent is doing good. it will be interesting to see what happens this transfer its already almost here it goes so fast. but we have been having a good time. thats nice mom that the your able to enjoy the relief of being done with shopping and it seems like its going to be a really good christmas for you all and me too i cant thank you enough for all the packages you have sent the food and everything is so delicous and im excited to open my presents as is my comp he thanks you guys and mandy too he loves the shampoo and says its already working. well things have all been good this past week. yesterday it started to snow and we got like 6 or so inches again so that is sweet we bought some nice innertubes and were going sledding again so that should be a blast. last sat was the baptism of justin adams it was really good. he was excited as can be and it was realy good for his non member mom to see. they gave us some christmas fudge that reminds me of mandy's and a little card that said thank you for the gospel and stuff so that was neat. we have a baptism of sierra and mariah bindley this saturday and their really excited. then monique the frenchy is still awesome. we had a good lesson with her yesterday and she told us how smoking is everything to her cuz she has had such a hard life its been her holy ghost so we are trying to get her to replace it with the gospel and give her things to do. but its tuff she said christmas is her last day of smoking. but other than that we have a bunch of other investigators but we havnt got them to progress towards baptism quite yet but things are still looking great we are getting a lot of support from members and things so its great. but its should be a good christmas with 2 baptisms the day after we have a few party's to go too. one of the bishops the ones that are knaphus relatives invited us over for c mas eve and theres going to be a bunch of food and games and stuff and a talent show and we have to be a part of it so me and my comp are going old school and he's going to bust out the trumpet and im going to bust out the clarinet so it should be pretty good. play jingle bells or something. but i think thats about all i have to report thank you for everything think i love you all so much thanks for the support and everything tell tammy i love her and her cookies once again i just picked them up from the post office this morning and am excited to try one as well as all the treat you guys sent me but have a beautiful christmas!! love elder knaphus