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November 26, 2018

Lets start off with answering those questions. For Thanksgiving we spent the entire day walking trying to talk to anyone outside, we walked to the bottom of our ward to the top, but we had Thanksgiving dinner with our ward mission leader. It was a ton of fun and we got to spend 3 hours over there! I was on exchanges in that other Elder's area and she took us out, she was super sweet. Yeah I got all the packages, there is so much stuff I dont know how I'm gonna take everything with me wherever I go. I'm grateful for it though, please try not to send anything else till Christmas 😅. You two are coming again? That'll be funny. From my interview with President Taylor it sounds like I'll be leaving this area, so we'll see what happens I guess. 

In terms of the Axio you could send some more of whatever flavor for Christmas. In terms of you wanting to know what I want for Christmas. I wanna say you guys can come up with whatever you think best. I really dont NEED anything, I got plenty of clothes but my suits are getting pretty tight. Maybe just money? I'll leave it up to the kiddos and you and Dad with what you think best, make it a surprise I suppose. 

Hopefully Savannah is starting to feel better, its no fun to get sick at all. The gingerbread houses looked like a ton of fun, I swear Bryson looks like he is getting taller every photo you send. Tell Bryson I'm gonna get on him if he doesnt email me back. I'm thinking of sending some Christmas presents to the kiddos and you two for this year (some of it will be stuff I'm sending home that I bought out here). Its been fun to hear back what is happening back home. We ended up driving to Big Bear today for our preparation day and checking out the area. We have a TON of miles so we checked out the lake, the snow resorts up there, and some stores. I took some photos so I'll make sure to send those your way before the preparation day ends. 

This past week almost felt the same as the other weeks. We keep doing a ton of walking and knocking and trying to just fill our day with meaningful activities. I have to ask you a question though Mom, what do I do when my companion doesnt want to do anything I want to do or think is right? How do I help him actually want to listen to me or actually care? We had a random person walk up to us last week saying he wanted to change his life but that was a week ago, and Elder Singleton doesn't want to call him and just keeps saying "We'll visit him later"... Its frustrating that the very person I'm supposed to work with is utterly against me. 

Something interesting that happened from this week that was out of the ordinary. We went to visit a recent convert to the church who hadn't attended in awhile and he was all bloodied up on the floor, his girlfriend hit him in the head with a baseball bat and there was a good sized gash above his eye. Thankfully Dad taught me a ton when it comes to doctor kind of stuff, and I was able to clean up his wounds and apply pressure to his wound. We ended up calling President Taylor who called for an ambulance to come pick him up. It was just really strange because he seemed like he was out of it, he kept holding my hand and saying random things for 40 minutes until help arrived. 

Otherwise if you ask any questions or things I'll try and respond back as soon as I can because I'm running out of things to talk about. Going to Big Bear took a really long time so I'll try and respond back! I LOVE YOU MOMMA!!! 

 - Elder Brimhall 

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