Happy New Year!

Well, this year has already started out with some doosies. We found a sweet family on Christmas Eve, but a couple days later one of them went online and studied Anti til 5 in the morning, so they dropped us. That son and his dad are coming to play basketball with us and the other missionaries in the district today, though, so that's good! We're going to keep a mutual friendship between us and that family and hopefully something comes of them some day. Also, another investigator, Rob(the one who owns a 24ft long Boa) was left by his wife just a couple days after Christmas, and so he's not happy at all either. He's really not progressing anymore and so he might not be willing to let us come back after a while. THEN. Chris and Andrea. Where to begin.

We met them a couple months ago through a referal from some members, the Sturgills. We taught them and Chris was pretty darn golden. As we went along, we learned that Andrea, who claimed to be due with Chris's baby in May, wasn't actually pregnant. Also, the Sturgills got her a job house cleaning with a lady that's never had anything come up missing. Well, since Andrea was hired, suddenly a total of $8,380 and 3 rings have been found stolen, but neither have showed up yet. Chris found all this out and supposedly dropped her off at a homeless shelter. That's not even the weird part. Last night, we went over to Chris's house to bring him a couch since he has no furniture. He's renting the house for free as long as he fixes up the house. Well, we were there, and some pretty weird stuff was apparent, and so through a series of phone calls, we learned that Andrea was actually hiding in the closet upstairs, which Chris said was broken and wouldn't open, but Elder Moen tried opening it and it opened a couple inches, then shut back up. As the night progressed, we have learned that Chris might be getting dealt drugs through his landlord, and some of those drugs along with possible stolen merchandise are in that house, which Chris locked up and then drove off. Its a tough situation, but luckily, we're out of it, and have dropped them like a rock.

In other news, we have an investigator whose got diabetes really bad, and when he took off his sock, a chunk of meat from his foot came off about the size of a quarter. He's lost 3 toes before this. He also refuses to go to the doctor to be treated cause he doeskin wanna lose his foot.

Elder Moen and I did build a snowman nativity though! Its sweet! I'm sending the pictures! Also, I hit my first deer. I was only going about 15 mph so it didn't cause any damage to us, but the deer might have a concussion. Those are my highlights. Transfers are a week from this Wednesday, so we'll see what happens. We think that Elder Moen might be leaving and I'll end up staying. The Zone Leaders were asking if I thought I'd be ready for District leader, so I don't know. Its not their choice, but they can give input to President Thornock for sure.

With Love,
Elder Wiederholt

1125 St Christopher Dr #48
Russell, KY 41169