1/20/2010 More News from MAPLE VALLEY!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi,
Hey guys sorry it took me awhile to get back to your email. Monday was not pday because yesterday was temple day, it was great to get to go to the temple which I have not been able to go to since September, but hey all is good. When I got home from that we had to change the oil in the car after that our pday was over so that is why I am emailing so late, but hey at least there isn't very much time till next pday.
No new news from the Ceder River Ward here in Maple Valley. We have a bunch of investigators but none that are willing to go into the waters of baptism. We also have a couple of dry Mormons here (the kind that come to church every Sunday, pays their tithing, lives the law of the fast and so on, but lacks the faith to be baptized) it is sad but at least they know that this church is the true church.
It is a bummer that it is cold there, here is very warm for the last four days it has been in the sixties which is very abnormal around this time of year, especially because around this time of year last year there was three feet of snow on the ground which is very funny, every time it snows two inches it is a holiday, everything closes, the schools, the stores, everything. It's actually very pathetic tho if you ask me.
Transfers was great we got a lot of new missionaries including a nephew of mine (a nephew in case you don't know is if you and another missionary is trained by the same person that makes you brothers and if your brother trains then it is your nephew) his name is Elder Nelson, he is a great guy, fun to be around, he is the companion of my district leader, and yes I am still with Elder Knotts.
Hey my companion and my district leader loves that CD of the EFY and other stuff that you sent me and they where wondering if you could send them a CD, so could you please two more of those EFY and others? Also if Papa could send me some more classical that would be great I have listened to all of the CD that he gave me and I would love to have more thank you much.
Can't believe it was my five months mark yesterday EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGADS I am becoming old in the mission field, but it is a great experience, I love being on a mission, it is so much fun. Anyway that's all for the week.
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien