December 23rd, 2008 (Email)

Merry Christmas Eve-Eve!
Week one of transfer two has been a little chilly! Not foot-of-snow chilly or even inch-of-snow chilly. It's more like gentle-mist-in-early-spring chilly. But the sun's up today and I'm wearing a short sleeve white shirt. ;)
Well, not much has really happened this last week. Let's see...Zone Conference! That's what happened. Zone Conference was pretty cool. President Sexton told us to flood the earth with Books of Mormon (yes he said Books of Mormon not Book of Mormons so I'll go with it) so Elder Rodriguez and I have been passing out Books of Mormon to all sorts of people. Elder Rodriguez tried to give one to a mailman yesterday but he just kind of laughed. I got all sorts of cool letters (thanks fam that was so awesome!) and I turned the green lamp in the study room into a really pathetic yet sufficient Christmas tree (I took pictures you'll see someday. And yeah mom the apartment's pretty messy but that's just life out here. We deal.)
The ward's giving us all sorts of treats and presents and stuff. I'm not lacking in the Christmas present department. Our ward-mission-leader gave Elder Rodriguez and I a tithing envelope each on Sunday and said "I didn't have time to get you ties so this will have to do" We opened it during church and found $100 in each envelope... (He's the orthopoedic surgeon) Then he left during sacrament and to visit Malasia for a month. So we have a dilemma. Missionaries can't accept money from ward people or investigators. So I think we're just going to have to hold on to the cash until he returns and then awkwardly explain what it says in the White Bible.
William Peters says he thinks he's ready to be baptized on the 28th. It all depends on whether or not his daughter can come. If not this Sunday it'll be the following. We're visiting Roxy Galvan tonight. She came to church this Sunday with her aunt and cousin. David and Dixie's son George is going to scouts now. He's reading the Book of Mormon too. We visited David and Dixie last night and they fed us again and we watched Joy to the World on their new giant LCD flatscreen TV. My math teacher from my Junior year of high school, Miss. Gremillion, is in Joy to the World. She's the flute player with the short hair closest to the camera.
I have a weight update. This is alarming so prepare yourselves:

139 lbs. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?!?!?!?!?

I've never gained so much weight so fast in my life. It's rejunkulous.

Remember positude and have a merry merry feliz navidad! I'm so excited to call home on Thursday!

Love,
Elder Tyler Lewis

P.S. - I'll call that cell phone number Mom thanks!