¡Háce frio!

Hello my friends,

 

Sorry for no letter last week. I was writing other people and realized that I didnt have anymore time left. Way to go me. But it has beeen really cold up here lately. We got a lot of snow this week and we are looking to get even more. We were able to talk to a lot of people about the gospel becasue of the snow. With a shovel in hand, we went trackting for some of the time this week. It is amazing how much more people want to talk to you after their walk is cleared off. Don't worry mom, we are being really carfeul driving in the snow. Especially because Elder Doxey is the one driving. But it has been really great to see the snow on the trees and in the river valley. We already broke out the Christmas music here, becasue Canadain Thanksgiving already passed. Boo Yah! Check out the David Archuleta christmas album, super good.

 

While being in the Christmas spirit already, Mormon.org is making a new page on their site to promote Christmas. Their people can request the christmas story told to them by the local,missionaries, a bible, or even download free MoTab Christmas hymns. It is going to be a really useful tool for spreading the gospel at this special time of year. We are going to be able to direct people to this site and really use it in our missioanry efforts. I encourage every one to keep thier eyes out because it will be uo and running in about 2 weeks. Mormon.org is such an effective way, especially for members to introduce the gospel to their friends. We had stake conference in one of our stakes and the stress was preparing for missionary work and getting everyone to participate. With this new site, (Mormon.org/christmas) will intoduce people to another side of our faith they probably didnt know about.

 

We had a great week this week, The highlight was definatly the Family Home evening (Latin Style) that we had for the members and our investigators. Actually 5 of our investigators and a few more new people to teach showed up. We had a little food and we played some fun games. At the end of the night we shoed Finding Faith in Christ and shared our testimonies. The Spirit was very strong and it was a great experience for the progressiong for many of our investigators. Actually Maria Cristina from Columbia, who I never expected to come to church came for all three hours and was able to make a lot of friends. She is one of my favorites and she has so much faith. She makes me smile becasue she puts ita and ito on everything. One of our members brought a friend from his Spanish club and she is super sweet! She wants to meet with us and talk about the miracels she has seen God bless her with. Her name is Marta and she was invovled with many of the dangerous things in Mexico. She is up here to learn English and get away from the problems. So we will see here this week and let you know. But overall the activity was a giant success.

 

We are still teaching Jesus. He has stopped progressing a little bit because he is having a hard time quiting smoking. Or rather finding the desire to stop smoking. He still wants to be baptized but it is hard becasue he works on Sundays and he never knows if he will get them off. We are going to meet with him tonight and see what we can do to help him. He is so cool and would be such a great member, but he needs to make sacrifices like we all need to. We have been really focusing lately on the principle lately that obedience brings blessings. Reading DC 130 20-21 seems to reall yhelp people and it has helped me realize that I have been blessed with all I have because I try and strive to be obedient to the commandments of God. We talked about that with Los Amigos last night. They are going to be leaving this Saterday, so it was really hard to see them off. But the Spirit was really strong when we were all sharing our testimonies and encouraging them to keep up the preperation in Mexico. We are pretty sure that Manuel, Joanna, and Jose Luiz will be going to continue to go to church and learn more. They already found their church and we are going to refer them to the missionaries down there. We had such a fun time with them and there were many reasons why Heavanly Father put us together on a little farm in Alberta Canada. I look forward to see how everything goes wtih them. I learned a lot from them and I know they were effected greatly by the message of the gospel.

 

I want to thank you all for the support and the prayers that I feel. I can't believe that time is going this fast and I am glad to see myself still pressing on the purposes of the Lord like all of you; and I am having a fantastic time doing it.

 

Mucho Amor,

 

Elder Kipp