Congratulations to David and Betsy! From what I gather from the 

letter I received, they got a son named Charlie.

Things are going really well in Winona. I was able to go on exchanges 

there on Friday. They've gotten 10 new investigators this week! I 

hear their total is up to 19. It was great to see familiar faces 

again. I'm pretty excited for what's going on down there.

While I was on exchanges, we had some good things happen in Houston, 

too. Elder Gregory was able to get two new investigators, and also 

was able to meet with David Shelby. Elder Gregory tried to set up a 

baptismal date with him, and told him that he ought to have some sort 

of goal to work towards. David agreed, grabbed a calendar, and, 

allowing himself to miss church 1 week, set his baptismal date for 

Feb 17th. Elder Gregory said it was the easiest baptismal date he 

ever set on his mission.

Not only that, but David is still on-target for his baptismal date. 

He came to church yesterday, and had a pretty good time. Quite a few 

people came up and introduced themselves, which I was grateful for, 

and we had a sweet Gospel Essentials lesson (which I gave, but it was 

the discussion part that was pretty sweet). All David needs to do is 

quit smoking and drinking coffee in the next 4 weeks or so, and he'll 

be good. He has to quit smoking slowly, as he has a heart valve 

condition that, given the stress of quitting smoking too quickly, he 

wouldn't do too well. But he's doing incredibly well spiritually, and 

it seems like he has no desire to move backward. At the very least, 

he won't be going back to the Druid church.

So, our toilet broke. We've been heading out to the church over the 

weekend to relieve ourselves of some burdens. Supposedly there should 

be a plumbing guy that'll be fixing it today.

I can't think of anything more to say, other than Nick and Liz should 

write me.

Talk to ya next week!

Brady