It has been a busy yet uneventful week. That is if you don't consider our Christmas present from the Mission President. Monday we finnished up the Flat Inspections for the transfer period and since we were half way to Birmingham we decided to go on in and go to Costco and to the Mission Office to pick up some supplies. On our way to Birmingham we get a call from Elder Long who is in charge of the cars. He told us that they had just got two new cars and President Ogden told him to give us one. The problem was that they would not get there until Tuesday. We went on and took care of our business and then drove home. We then made another trip in on Wednesday to pick up our car. It is very nice. It is the same Vauxhall Mervina that we had before but it is an up graded model. It is a diesel, a really good stereo system, a much better transmission and suicide doors. We drove it to Zone meeting on thursday and all the other missionaries drooled all over it.

We are starting a scripture study group. It will be a mixture of newly activated and long time members. So far all of the ones interested are sisters. We will use a Institute manual for a study guide. We are also working with the YSA Rep. from the ward and will start holding FHE for them starting next Sunday. There are 6 or 8 YSA who are active. The other thing we are doing is going to the active member's home and challenging them to set up visits with inactives. They are to make the first contact. We will then go visit them and begin the process of fellowshipping them back to activity. We are still meeting with 4 who we have hopes of getting to come to church. Time will tell.

I had a busy day today. I gave the lesson in Priesthood meeting, gave prayers in two other meetings and then was the main speaker in Sacrament meeting. I used Jacob 5 as the basis of my talk. I re-interpreted it to refer to the activation process. I think it came out pretty good.
We then drove 25 miles to a members house for dinner.