Peter, 12.12.11

mom,

it sounds like you do a wonderful job teaching. I'm very impressed they you are doing it so frequently. judgement and making judgements are very critical, i like how moroni teaches us to judge in moroni 7 :15-17 (i think?) it teaches us the "way to Judge" and it can be taken into any aspect of our lives. it goes on to teach that the way to judge is that if it inviteth to do good and to believe in Christ it is sent forth by the gift and power of Christ. anything beyond that we have been given a mind with reasoning powers and also we have been given prayer so that we can receive revelation.

Its crazy! Christmas is only 2 weeks away. it is hard to feel like Christmas. with people having there Christmas decorations up in their yards along side their palm trees and fresh cut grass. but it has cooled off. it dropped down into the forties last week but it quickly rebounded and jumped up to the high 70s. but to help it feel like Christmas we got a pine bow (?) branch and put it in one of the corners of our apartment.

this last week we had to reset P's baptismal date so that it will give more time for him to get permission from his parents. so if all goes well he will be baptised on Christmas eve. and confirmed on Christmas, we are hoping and praying that he will get the permission. 

Elder Olsen