Glorious CHRISTmas!!!

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Hey Family,
What a glorious CHRISTmas season we are in. The trees are going up, the lights are coming out the snow is falling down. I am sick of all that snow. I hate it! I know that God made all things to beautify the world and to bring us joy but you know what I am just not sure if that was one of them. Yes it is pretty and yes it is really fun to play in, but guess what!!! I don't get to play in it, so I don't like it. Yes Give me a couple months after my mission I'll love it again but not right now. So onto a better topic.
Wolf Point MT, is such a wonderful place. It is really a neat place to be. Lots of really nice people and a lot of really humble people. You if you have never been able to live on a reservation you are really missing out. We are teaching a bunch of people right now. In fact we just got 3 new investigators last night. And one of them has a family of 12. We will be doing a lot of focusing on them. We also have been trying to talk to everyone and trying to share with them a message about this wonderful season that we are in.
Here in WolfPoint there are about 400 members and about 40 are active. So we have a lot of Activation that we are trying to do. There are a lot of really good people here and we have a lot of work to do. President Fisher our mission President says that out of all the areas in our mission this is the one that he loves the most and the one that if he could assign himself to go, this would be it. I am starting to understand why he has said that. I hope that I can be a good servant of God and to help the work Progress up here.
This last week we had an opportunity to go to a Zone Conference and hear from Elder Terrence Smith. He is our area 70. He talked all about our work here in the mission. He also had a lot to say about Christmas and the Christmas Spirit. What do you get if you take the last syllable off of "The Spirit of Christmas" You get "The Spirit of CHRIST" thats what we need to focus on this Season is Christ. What is the best Present that you can give this year? That is the present of Yourself. I wish that we would have that desire to give of themselves rather then that of no real spiritual worth. Visit a friend or see someone in need. A smile can go a long way. Do what you can to Cheer someone up. I know that the lord will bless you as you do this.
I love you all so very much and I am so excited that this will be my last Christmas away from all of you, but at the same time I am also very sad because of it too. I love this work I love my savior and I love His children. I pray that you will all feel that way too.
Love,
Elder Carp