bits and pieces from 12/01/08

We had a good week, we ended up eating three thanksgiving dinners, and i thought that i was going to die, but we still worked really hard, we didnt want missionaries just turning thanksgiving into a lolligag day so we challenged the entire zone to see who could talk to the most people on thanksgiving day, and we ended up with 88 contacts, it was pretty fun getting soo excited over everyone in sight! The zone is doing really really good, we are looking at reaching numbers for the month of December with soo many dates than cocoa has had in such a long time at least a couple of years! It is going to be exciting! We have two baptisms this saturday with a part member family that we have been working with since before i got here, but they are finally ready, and they are sooo excited, there names are Jonathan and Daniel Hayasaka! They are a great family, it is going to be really good! This week we had the Turkey Trot Run for the JDRF foundation that a bunch a church members put on, and there were about 470 runners, it was intense, some ran like it was the olympics, we just helped out wherever we could, it wasnt sooo much that they needed our help as much as it was a good opportunity for missionary work and people recoginizing us from such a good cause!This week Pres and Sis Darrington came and spoke in our ward, and everytime they speak in a ward they get members even more excited about missionary work, and they generated about 50 referrals, so that was really exciting! It is really nice in this ward, the members really trust us with their nonmember friends and family, and that is soo helpful!