looking to the new year (from December 27, 2012)

Dear family,
It was so good to talk to you all on Tuesday! Thanks for all the letters and gifts. The socks are perfect and the cd's are wonderful :) and the dried fruit is delicious for our read-a-thon ;) I showed the Stephen's hot chocolate to Pres. Scott (he and sis. Scott stopped by for an hour at our read-a-thon) and he was excited (he was ceo of the company before coming to canada :))
the pics are our little christmas tree with the presents, the Book of Mormon Read-a-thon (we got exactly half-way in 14 hours and we'll finish it new year's :), Fernando--a recent convert who joined us for the read-a-thon and gave us christmas stockings :)
And hey it finally snowed! about 10-15 cm last night. :) now it feels like winter.
We had a wonderful christmas dinner with the Najera family Christmas night after spending the morning reading the book of mormon and then talking to you all.
We have a very promising progressing investigator! His name is Roberto. He's from Mexico and Hna. Ence got his number just before she left this area. We called him up last week and set up an appointment. Taught him the restoration and he accepted a baptismal invite. He's set for the 13th of January! He came to church Sunday and we met with him again last night to teach him the plan of salvation and the word of wisdom. He's doing well, keeping his commitments and has such a sincere desire to be cleansed of his sins and leave it all behind. We're excited to continue working with him. And a testimony to me that the Lord knows what he needs is that when we arrived at the church for our lesson, there was another member (Hno Cruz) there who agreed to come into the lesson with us and he and Roberto got along really well. The Lord is mindful of each of His children and their needs.
We continue to look for new investigators and seek the Lord's inspiration on how to help those we continue to teach. I have come to love this work so much! I love being a missionary and helping those around us, now more than ever. I have many things yet to improve, but I know I can do it with the Lord's help. Sprint to the end! Always in the Middle :)
I love all yous guys! (some canadians say yous guys instead of ya'll. hehe:)
Sincerely,
Hna. Cottam
And have a very happy New year! Say hi to all the family for me :)