Nov. 25 th

Hi Y all,
We have had a slow week this week. We had a good time a the Temple last Sat. it is so beautiful as all the Temples. It is a long drive as most things are from where we are it took two and a half hours each way. We are going with adults in the ward on Dec. 3rd. We will have to send pictures. We had a nice visit with our kids yesterday. We did Skype so we could see them and they could see us. It was fun. They are all growing up so fast. We had a nice quite day for Thanksgiving. We watched that movie 17 miracles. We had seen it with Phil and Sami before we left but it is one you can watch more than once. To day we are going with a couple in our ward to see a light prade and some shoppes I am not sure where but know we will have fun with them. Not much to tell this week hope all of you are doing well. Love Elder and Sister Carter

Nov.17th

I can't believe it has been a week siene we wrote last. Last thur.night our dinner and the movie on the restoration went well. We gave both of them a book of Mormon in Spanish and a marking pencil. We read with them some and it was a good night. The next day we had district meeting so I made pumpkin cookies and we took some to the Elders they loved them.
Sat we had a good day in Jacksboro. We were able to meet with 4 members it was nice to get a warm reception. We will keep trying to find the rest of the members in Jacksboro. We have been their 3 times now it is about 24 miles from the Branch building.
Sunday they ask me to talk in Sacrament Meeting just before it started because one of the speakers had not come. It had left the iPad home so I could not look up a conference talk or anything. We were starting the empty nesters the next night so they told me to talk about that. So I talked about the importance of F.H.E. And then went into the empty nesters. I was scared to death. I better start preparing some thing and have it in my scriptures so I don't get so scared. We only had 7 of us show up to empty nesters but it was fun and we had a couple that we had visited that have not come out to church yet. So that made it worth while.
Tue. we had Vons Dr. Apt so we went to Fort Worth we have been their for 2 meetings but did not drive around as much as we did on tue. we did ok with the GPS we had a good time. We meet with other Sr.couples that are at the mission office and went out to dinner. They took us to a all you can eat. I have not seen so much food in my life. It was sooooo good. We spent the night in weather ford because we had a meeting their the next morning. It was a nice break but we were happy to get home again. We are going with the youth to the Temple on sat. that will be nice it seems like a long time since we have gone to the Temple. Well enough for now will write later. Elder & Sister Carter

Nov.10

We are set we now have Internet service in our apartment. It is nice to be able to sit at the table and not have to be in the car or in the pizza shop.
The weather here is nice during the day in the 70s most of the time but in the morning when we walk and run it has been 49 down to 41 today. It makes it hard to breath in the cold air. But we are so happy to. Have the nice temp. During the day. Not snow!
We have had one of our members to breakfast yesterday for wheat pancakes and watch a movie on the Temple. He is going with the youth this next sat to the Temple to do Baptisms. He had some questions so the film was helpful. Tonight we are having 2 men over for dinner.we found them when we were hunting for a members house. We have been to visit and teach them one other time after our initial visit. We will show a movie tonight. I hope it goes well.
We had a baby shower at the branch last night and it was fun.
We have set up to start the empty nesters on mon. I hope we get the members to come we are calling and inviting them so they can't say they did not know about it.
Von is helping with cub scouts again this week and one of our families has said they will let their boys come if all 3 of their boys can come so that will double the size of the group. They have been having 4 boys.
The one sister we are working with has let us meet her and her children at the church for a lesson yesterday. That was nice and worked out good. We showed a movie and I have made a magnet board layout for next lesson. The kids were really good.
We just keep trying to set up apt. and keep asking members to come to church. Las week I was sure the one couple would come but they didn't show up, and when I called to set up our next apt. They said they would call so I don't think we will hear from them.
We are trying to keep positive even when people call and cancel their apt.
We love you all and hope every one is doing great. Elder and Sister Carter

Nov.2

We have still been helping paint and clean for the family that is moving. I hope we can get them committed to come to church this week. We have still been visiting members their were two that visited with to today that have been thinking about getting to the Temple if we can get them coming then we will see about starting a temple class. Tue morning when we started our study time I picked up the ensign and was to the talk by elder Holland and it got me excited what a powerful talk if we could just stay fired up like that all the time. one of the new members we have been seeing is not reading and we are not sure if she can read so we ask. If we could help her teach her children so we can make it simple. She also does not feel comfortable having us come into her house so we offered to meet at the church so she does not have to worry about her house. I hope this will work better for her and we can get the kids involved. Her husband will not let them get baptized but he will let them come to church. All we can do os keep trying every thing we can think of. We love y'll have a good day Elder and Sister Carter