This week truly was amazing.Each week always holds something amazing and new

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Family, how I love you all. Thank you ma and pop for your awesome letters. I got one from Grandma and Grandpa Diane this week as well as from Kory. He had some fever and was in the Hospital for two weeks, but he says hes doing great now. You sound like you have had quite the amazing week and I am so glad to hear it. Thanksgiving was better than I could have ever expected, but I thought about you quite often. I love those family parties so much - playing video games, having Uncle John come over, the morning before and staying up waaay to late playing video games. Having the whole family there, eating til we have to just lie down and let gravity help our stomachs out. Talking with Grandpa Rushton. Watching home videos. How fun and amazing is our family :) I guess it takes awhile to truly appreciate all you've been given eh? :) I'm so glad you're enjoying your time off work Pop and Mom you sound like your doing so good, staying up and helping children with projects as usual :) Thank you for sending the package, I so greatly anticipate it! Spence- that is amazing about football. You little stud muffin you. I really miss you brother. (In this store today I saw Fable 2 came out and it's two player. I thought, "Spencer and I are going to play that together after I get home." And we will :)) I so look forward to Christmas phone call, just to hear your voices. Sarah you sound amazing as usual. Dad told me you were laughing to the point of peeing your pants when you saw his picture with Headgear. hahahah It makes me smile so big just thinking of you laughing, I love your laugh. :) Annie, I wish I could see you right now, just being your amazing self. Singing me a song or dancing- I look forward to dancing and singging with you someday again :) Sorry- got side-tracked for a moment. I can't help it, I kinda like you guys.
This week truly was amazing. Dad, I never realize that I'm so upbeat and such...but I really have all the reason in the world to be. Each week always holds something amazing and new. Really amazing, 24 carrot gold investigators are not found on the regular here. But they exist, and we really have to work to find them. I love reading Ryan's letters...they tell such a different experience and that's part of the beauty of the mission. I'm so glad Ryan has the chance to teach so many people, I wish I could see him going at it in Spanish ( which I no longer understand, at all ). We definitely do not teach as many people here- maybe because they are not as humble as those in South America, or because the concept of God is so difficult for people to believe here, I'm not sure, but I know they exist and we can find them.
I, like you Father, am always looking for new ways to contact. It's tough because there's never clearly one winning fashion. It changes from season to season, daily sometimes, and you must always try new things. We do tract now that it's starting to get pretty nippy. It's not traditionaly the most effective, but it can definitely work sometime.
We actually had a little miracle last monday after we tracted an entire building. Everyone lives in apartment buldings, so we got into this building and went to the 9th floor and went to knock on Mieszkanie 99. Before we even could knock, this lady from the stairwell started saying that EVERYONE in the building was Catholic and didn't want what we were selling. We still knocked on every door from 99 to 45 (on the first floor) with zero success. It was a little bit of a downer and when we left, we had only spent a half hour there. We still had 2 and a half hours to work that night and it felt like it just might go on forever. So we caught a tramwaj and picked this street, Nowy Swiat, to contact. We talked to 4 different people. We set up with 2 of them, and got 2 other numbers. The 2 and a half hours went by in the BLINK of an eye. It was amazing to me.
Ma- we teach English every tuesday and it's so great! We have 7 or 8 people that come every week and they love it. We teach really basic things and just have fun with it. This last week, Brat Herman's daughter came and completely loved it! It was a break through for sure. :)
Our meeting with Brat Herman and his Family was amazing. They fed us the best Tomato soup in the world- we made them cake and than they made US cake. It was amazing. We played Guitar and sang, we even sang primary songs and it was just an enjoyable, happy evening. We ended with Prayer and Brat Herman was happy as could be. He said next time we will start and end with Prayer. Eventually we will teach a lesson and yes. Slowly but surely :)
WE met with Edyta this week and asked her to be Baptized. She did not give a straight answer, but she has the desire to. She smokes and feels that she is not quite ready. We are going to meet wiht her this week and she will be at Church on Sunday, we hope. She is so chosen- I know she will accept it :)
Last high light meetin happened last night, at President's house :) It was a little hectic cos of different things, and we didn't end up making it out there until 8 20 at night. And Irina was concerned cos it was so far away, but we had the lesson- taught her the 10 commandments and the Word of Wisdom and it was so powerful. I could write essays on that lesson :) She had said the Lord's name in vain a couple of times and when we talked about that Article, she simply said "Well what should I say instead?" She just had the desire to change. She wasn't embarrased, she just wanted to do what was right. She's a bold lady and when we talked about the Word of Wisdom she had some concerns, but in the End she committed to live it gladly. The meeting was full of the spirit and I felt so blessed to be there. President drove us home and said that he was so impressed with us and it felt so good. He told Irina we were two of the best missionaries in the mission - granted he may say that about any missionaries, but I don't know. It felt great to hear it nonetheless :)
Thanksgiving dinner. I have not seen so much home made food in one place in my entire life. I ate family, until I almost EXPLODED into a thousand tiny pieces of turkey potatoes and cinnamon flavored yams. It really was tremendous. I don't think I've ever been that full in my entire life- but when all you can eat turkey, gravy, potatoes and pie presents itself, you must partake. :P There house was gorgeous and it was a little taste of being back home and that was one of the best tastes of the night :)
The weather is getting chilly and Christmas is around the corner. They are really going to the 9's here in Warsaw and I think this is the place to be for the Holidays. Elder McRae and I will for sure be together for another month (there wa s a small chacne we wouldn't be) and I am SOO greatful. We have so much fun together, yet we work so hard. I love it. I'm staying warm for sure. I could use some more garment tops ma. That would probably be the best :) My Scottish sweater keeps me very very warm and my jacket thrown in the mix makes it so I'm always warm. I do need glvoes still but my pockets work for now. :)
Papa I love that you made me work hard. Mom I love that you made me work hard. As you wrote about what you talked to those young men about I couldn;t help but think how grateful I am to know what it means to work hard. I end everyday ready to collapse on my bed. It's a prize fight to keep my eyes awake during my prayers. I wake up the next morning ready to go and give it my all and I love it. The Lord has blessed me with so much and I know that this time is sacred. Never again will I be able to work like this and in a way it scares me. We are so productive, we love the work because we know it is true. We know how happy our lives and our families are. We know that every question in life can be satisfied through the Gospel. We know how this gospel and can change a life around and I'm dying to see the gospel work in these people's lives and I do more and more everyday. It's sometimes hard to see...but than I remember little things that people say and little ways that the Lord reminds me that these people are feeling the goodness of his Gospel. ANd it is all I need.
I thank you so much for your support and prayers. I love you so much. Thank you so much for the letters and for the Christmas package. Life is so good. Live it to the fullest. Remember how blessed you are and how much the Lord and your son and brother loves you. I know my letter was a little jumbled this week, and there is more to tell than I could ever write down, but that's why we have countless hours of story telling while I make you Polish dishes after the mission eh? :) Smile for me and live life in such a way that you make God grateful that he gave you such amazing and able bodies in such a beautiful living atmospheres. I know you all are making Him proud every day. I know it :) Talk to you in a week :)

so much love, Starszy Michael Joseph Rushton Jr.

p.s. Mom- the phone call info will come by President. He'll e-mail you and let you know how it works. I think you get to call our cell phones (which we do have pop ha. I never answered that for you. Next week I'll elaborate.)