Well I decided to change things up to day and start it off by letting everyone know that I was emailing today also I would like to take time to tell my Dad Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is a pretty awesome Dad. Also the rest of my family is pretty sweet as well. My Mom is pretty awesome also, pretty much my whole family is awesome, extended and non extended.
Well this week has been really good, Christmas was pretty awesome we were able to spend time with a member family, I am pretty sure I already told all of you this but oh well. It really hasn't been that long since I emailed and nothing really exciting to talk about. New Years Eve is fun not really to much excitement. Well I hope all of you had made New Years Resolutions and plan on keeping them, if I could suggest one. Read the Book of Mormon. I Hope all is well with all of you. Happy New Years.


Love
Elder Elquist

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you. I hope all of you enjoyed your break from work and school and other things. Hopefully you guys got to have a good day with everything. I got to talk with some of you, and it was fun trying to guess who I was talking to. But I got it figured out. It is definitely different spending Christmas out on your mission, I don't know what it is, if it is the part of being by yourself or just being focused completely on the savior, that it just makes a lasting impression on you. I feel a lot closer to my Savior after this Christmas season. It was different being on my own out here and really having no one but Christ with you. One thing I would encourage you all to be thankful for is your families, and just how much they mean to you, take them away and what is the point of anything. It brings me peace to know that all of us will be to live together with our families forever and that death does not separate us.
Well a experience I had this week, was this. The week started off really slow, with everyone telling us to come back after the Holidays and everyone being in a rush. I think it really hit my newbie pretty hard, I could tell he was having a rough day on Saturday when no one really had time to talk with us. We were talking about this and he told me it was pretty hard for him. So I decided to go ask Heavenly Father what to do, so I did, I went and knelt down and prayed and had an amazing prayer, I truly could feel that I was talking with my Heavenly Father and I knew that it was going to be okay, I knew that we just needed to have a good attitude about it all and that we would see miracles happen and  what do you know. I kept my promise to have a good attitude and the Lord provided the miracles. We were able to find receptive people, helped a family move on the spot and got to be miracles to them and then got to teach several people and so it was an amazing experience with prayer. God will answer all of our prayers if we ask in Faith and have real intent. I hope all of you have a good Holiday break.


Love
Elder Elquist
P.S.
Caption for the picture is from Left to Right
Trainer, Trainer, Trainee
Posterity.
Elder Parker Begat Elder Elquist who Begat Elder Boyer.

Well all is going well with me, it seems like Mondays happen back to back, I can't believe how quick this week has gone by. Or how quick time goes in General. Well where to start, the work is going really well, we are just trying to do as much work as possible while the weather is good. We really haven't had much snow yet, we had a little last Monday but it was short lived, it melted the next day. It has stayed about Mid 40's to low 50's, so I am enjoying that. Hopefully it stays good weather, it makes it a lot nicer to do missionary work when it is a little warmer. One thing I have really been studying a lot is Charity, which is something I really didn't fully understand, but it is Christ, it is being a true follower of Jesus Christ. I have been thinking a lot about this and trying to truly develop this and I can see it change myself so much, it makes us look at people in a different way, we look at each other as Brother and Sisters and want to help one another. Sorry for rambling. I hope Christmas is amazing for all of you, and you truly enjoy the Season of More Christ. I love you all an hope the best for you.


Love
Elder Elquist

I hope everyone has been doing well as of lately.  The Christmas season is definitely in the air and it has been quite fun with all sorts of stuff going on here. We are seeing God constantly work miracles in our lives and many tender mercies of the Lord.  It is amazing how if we ask He comes through. I am constantly going through Mathew 7:7-8

 7 ¶^aAsk, and it shall be ^bgiven you; ^cseek, and ye shall find; ^dknock, and it shall be opened unto you:

 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that ^aseeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

It is amazing to see God promise that if we ask Him something He will give it unto us and it is amazing to see this constantly. I hope everything goes well for all of you back home. I attached some pictures of Notre Dame, so enjoy.

Love

Elder Elquist

Well the work here is going well, sorry it has been a while since I have emailed everyone, I have been pretty busy and am not going to be able to email much this week because I am going to take a tour of Notre Dame and will let you all know how that is and take lots of pictures and send them to you all. Well the work has been going good we are just trying to do are best and keep up the good work.
God bless you all and enjoy Christmas.
Love
Elder Elquist