E-mail dated 12/28/09

Hello once again. Since we just talked on Friday I don't think I have much new to say. Hmmmm. . . . Let me think. Well let me just recap the week and hopefully something new will come up that you haven't heard already. The transfer weeks usually seem to be a little busier because we travel great distances to get to new areas. Elder Lauti arrived in Bo on Wednesday evening and our first day together was Christmas Eve. Just like last year in Freetown, many of our members have travelled to thier little villages for the holidays so we didn't really have many appointments. We walked around for about 3 hours and contacted as many people as possible. Our branch planned to have a Christmas service project on Christmas Eve. The idea was to go caroling around the chapel as a branch. Well we started 2 hours late and only had an attendance of about 20 people. We still went caroling but with our smallness of number we had to sing loud. Most of our members can't really keep the correct tune and they don't really know the christmas hymns very well. Elder Lauti and I were screaming at the top of our lungs "Oh, come all ye Faithful" and "Joy to the World" over and over again. I can now scream those hymns on tune. Pretty good skill for the future eh?

I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas. I'm excited for our members and investigators to come back from their small vacations and ready to get down to some serious business.

I can't really remember which classes are the correct ones to sign up for. I think that the "fall 2008" ones are the ones I want. I remember taking a writing class before I came, check and see if this is the second writing class. I think I remember that I need to take two. I took the first business class so the next class to sign up for would be the Business 2010 and not Economics 2010. I took phychology in the spring of 08, so I think I now have to take anthropology (I don't even know what that means. Sounds cool though). I don't really know much else, its a good thing I saw that counselor before I left or else I would be in quite a pickle. Do your best!!!I don't really have much else to say. Maybe the new week will provide new stories. I love you all.

Elder Degen
Rice is Life