Letter from Mark 04 December 2006

Dear Family,

Things continue to move forward here, and we are having a great time. just this past week(wednesday i believe) there was a huge snowstorm that droped 17 inches not to far south of here and 10" in the milwaukee area, and several in some of the sothern parts of the madison stake, including where the stake president lives. Madison didn't get hit hard, platteville didn't get any. we have been happy for that. The airport in chicago closed because it got so much snow,or so i am told. Yesterday was stake Conferance and the stake president said that he was contemplating about moving staked conferance while driving to work. at work he got a call from a secretary at the office of the 12 asking about the condition and telling him that Pres. Packer and Elder Oaks had been concirned and gave him permission to postpone it a week. he decided not to and laughed at what the members would have thought if he did with the fact that madison didn't get much snow. it was a great stake conferance.

Christmas Zone Conferance is on Wednesday. 3 zones(about 50 people) are all getting together. It should be fun. part of zone conferance is each zone prepares a zone skit. elder christensen and i wer talking about good ideas on what to do and I thought of doing a spoof on the "how to survive worst case scenario's" and do a missionary version of that. It should be funny. there is also a tallent show in which elder Christensen and i are going to try to do "Who's on First" and i am also playing the piano. It will be fun to be able to see a lot of missionaries.

Thanks for the Christmas Package. That is very neet. I realy like the John Schmidt CD. I had heard part of it because a missionary in my district had it.

The work here continues to move forward at a rapid pace. because of stake conferance we have been committing our investgators to come on the 10th. we have now had 10 investigators we are teaching commit to comming then. We are way excited. we have been very blessed recently. it would be impressive to get half that many. our goal this week is to not give out investigators any excuse to not come, which means we will be calling them multiple times this week.

we have a member that feeds us most sundays, and he lives in a town of probably 3,000 and they are the only members. we havew 5 investigators from that town that committed to comming, when we told him that he said that he had been a bit frustrated being the only members in that area and he had been praying for more, he said that it was and answer to prayer that more and more people in that area were listening to us.

transfers is comming up on the 14th, and we would like to stay together, however it isn't likely. usually missionaries will be together for a max of 2 transfers(3 months) and we have been together that long, however sometimes president has extended that. We have asked him to stay (which is the only way we would have a posibility) and yesterday a couple of members tracked him down to tell him that they want us to stay. if nothing else it is a good testimony to us that the members here like us and trust us. we have been working hard in this area, and things have been taking off. I remember when i was in Prairie Du Chien, not much was happening in here in platteville, and the missionaries here were being lazy. the differance between now and then is amazing. Elder Christensen and i get along great, we are working hard, we have the trust of the members, because of that they have been reffering their friends there have been 2 baptisms since August( when E Christensen got here) and more are to follow. I love the blessings that come from hard work.

Thank you for all of you love and support. know that i am working hard and that i love you all.

Elder Lundberg