I know, I know, I'm a little behind.  So, I'm going to post this email from Jan. 7th first!

Hello everyone!

    So this week has been pretty interesting. Sadly, most of our appointments have fallen through. But on the flip side, this has allowed us to go contact a few potentials! We have about 4 or 5 people that we are going to slowly start working with. Basically, we're gonna stop on by them in about 2 or 3 weeks or so. So this week we had 2 exchanges. Since Elder Pruitt is the district leader, we had to do an exchange withRredwing. That was on Wednesday. I stayed in Oakdale and Elder Pruitt went to Redwing. So for Wednesday and half of Thursday Elder Kadolka was my companion. He was a pretty cool guy. We were able to contact one less active and get a return appointment with them for this Wednesday! We also found a family that agreed to let the Hmong elders stop on by! So over all it was pretty successful. Because I am a new missionary, Elder Pruitt and I had to go blits the A.P.'s. Basically we had to both go to Bloomington and then we did exchanges in Bloomington. I went with Elder Johnson and we were able to get like 8 new potentials and 1 baptism! So twice this week we were walking down the road and someone from the other side of the road asked us to go teach them! So that was pretty cool! Over all it was a pretty good week. My boots are fine, I just have to wear two pairs of socks when we ride bikes. We got them from Kohls so we thought they would be pretty good. They're kinda starting to fall apart though and I don't have the receipt so I can't return them. Oh well though. So we were gonna drop one of our investigators this week because they haven't kept their commitments. We went over there and we were just talking and all of a sudden they said that they had started to read the Book of Mormon, so we didn't end up dropping them! Anyways, theres a ton of snow here! It's been oddly warm here lately. Its around 35 today, which is the warmest it has been my entire time here. Today we were making balloon animals in our apartment because we were bored and it was our P-day. haha I can now make a mouse that you can shoot through the air, a dog, a teddy bear, and a few other simple things. Thats to bad to hear about Dani. Get better soon Dani! I love you guys!