Letter from Mark 27 Nov 2006

Dear Family,

This week has been good. Thanksgiving was great. a family named the Roberts had us over for dinner. we get to watch a PG movie on thanksgivin, Christmas, and New Years. we watched and old movie called "The Court Jesture." It is one of Elder Christensen's Favorite Movies. It was very funny. We had a family that just moved in and is good friends of the Branch President invite us over for pie that evening. It was a ton of fun.

On Thanksgiving we also get to watch a sporting event, we tried to switch that to saturday to watch the Utes vs BYU, but couldn't. The Branch President is a Huge BYU Fan and he came up to me just before church with a huge smile. He told me it was 33-31 for BYU and said "it was a Game for the ages." after church e told me about the game in detail (he was very excited to tell me) he said after the utes come back from being down , and their touchdown at the end of the game scared him. he said he thought "not again, How am i going to Explain this to Elder Lundberg" that made me laugh because he has been telling me the whole time i have been here that BYU is going to win. he then explained the last drive of BYU and the Last play with 3 seconds left. sounded like a good game. He showed me a picture of a BYU player that use to be in this mission (Bower, he is a QB) he had Beck(?) on his shoulders(the QB that through the winning tougchdown.)

the past week or so we have been having great weather, it has been up in the 50's, or close to that every day, i hope it will last, but i think it is going to start getting colder. I am hoping that i will get to stay in Platteville at least through January. Platteville is one of the most southern parts of the mission, so it would be nice to stay Here for the worst of winter.

Next week is stake conferance for us, and then there is one more sunday after that befor transfers(Dec 14) we are hoping to get 7 investigators to church on that sunday. we talked to 7 people between friday and saturday that all told us they would come to church, although not all could come yesterday. Things have been going very well here in platteville,we are teaching a good amount, the members trust us. we are being very blessed.

Sounds like things are going well. I hope that dad and alex get better quickly. have a wonderful week. I am working hard, and love you all.

Elder Lundberg