Christmas

Family,

We have this movie called Joy to the World, and I've probably seen it 45 times now. We've been taking it around tracting with us with our portable DVD player and using it to get in the door. People are very busy this time of year but we just tell them we want to watch a movie about Christmas to help prepare them for the season, and it's been great. They then send us to their family and friends and we got a few good investigators out of it.

I don't have a lot of time to write this, we're going to see those stone monoliths that Dad has been pushing me to go see (just kidding Dad, we're pretty excited about it). Transfers are next week, and President Dowdle hinted that we may go back to 3 missionaries here in Palau. I'm hoping I don't leave, but if I do, at least I'll have seen this stone faces thing.

I sent 3 pictures (It didn't work this week for some reason. I'll have to try again next week). One is of a monkey, obviously. These things are all over the place - not wild, just as pets. It's pretty cool. Second is me painting the inside of a Bai, which is the traditional leaders meeting house. Most villages have one, and our recent convert, Tobi, asked us to help him. He drew everything and we were just going over it with black paint. The last one is a ton of pigs. We were following this trail through the jungle and it just opened up to this pig farm. I took this picture, and it flashed and a bunch of them jumped up and scared me to death. I thought they were going to go crazy, but they just looked around for a second and laid back down. Crazy pigs.

Anyway, I love you all. It was good to talk to you for a few minutes.

Love,

Elder Barlow