Feliz Navidad!

Thanks for all the packages! Sweet! So far ive gotten 2 from amazon, 2 from deseret book, and one from home. I cant wait to call home on friday! I want to call in the morning and talk to everyone while they open presents so ill probably call around 8:00 your time. Dont start without me!

We had a baptism on Sat! A 16 yr old kid finally got baptized that ive been teaching for a while now. We will also have one this sat with a 17 yr old girl named Autumn! And guess what?! Our mission reached our goal on sunday of 1050 baptisms and confirmations! YYYEEESSS!!! After a long, hard working year we finally made it! We are actually at 1055 right now! This week has been pretty good. We have been recontacting past Spanish investigators and found some awesome ones! This guy named Alejandro Franco is awesome! He Has loved reading the book of mormon and is excited to come to church. He went once before about a year ago. I feel like my Spanish has improved a lot lately too. I got a letter from Aunt Cathy in all Spanish and knew all but one word! Tell her thanks for the letter!

This morning we attempted to go hunting! We went with a guy thats 21 who has been trying to turn his life around to go on a mission. He asked us if we wanted to go hunting with him this morning. We had to get up at 5:15 though! We didnt go too far away. He had a small tent set up called a blind in the woods and an automatic feeder that spread corn everywhere to lure in the deer. But when we got there this morning someone had stolen the feeder and cut a bunch of holes in his blind! We didnt stay too long but he said he would take us to a better spot in another town next monday. Hunting is a lot different here! There is no limit on the number of deer you can kill!

Oh yea and we had a mission conference in Jacksonville on thursday with all the missionaries in the mission which was awesome! I got to see a bunch of missionaries and old companions i haven't seen for a while! Sis. Newman took a lot of pictures if you want to check them out on the blog. floridajacksonvillemissionnews.blogspot.com, im in the pic with the Lake City district!

Love you all and merry christmas!


Love,
Elder Carty