Dear all,

We got transfer calls on Saturday, and fortunately neither Elder Burton nor I are leaving. All the begging I did to President paid off. Six more weeks of Filipino food, inside jokes with Elder Burton, and really, really chill members. Life is good. 

The not-so-good thing is that it continued to dump snow this week, then it got warm and dumped rain, and then it got cold again and all froze. So everything is covered in at least 3 solid inches of ice, and then more snow. So it is slick everywhere. 

While on exchanges with Elder Smith this week, we helped a Persian family get their car out of the ice, and they turned out to be interested in meeting up. We'll see if it actually happens, though. Elder Smith still has all the contact info for them. 

A sort of less active young man who we've been working with named RJ turned 18 this week. His mom was going to be working all day, so we got the Young Men's president to invite him over for dinner and a bit of a party with a few other members. Elder Burton and I got him a Miles Davis album because he likes jazz and we wanted to help him get cultured (we consider ourselves to be very cultured). We ate lots of cake. 

Last night, we planned on having a ward family home evening for members who might not be able to have one on their own. We invited a lot of members, and had people prepare snacks and everything, but in the end no one showed up. We hung around to have a correlation meeting with the ward missionary, and then ate even more cake for Sister Drake who was turning 20. It was her first birthday in the field, and it seemed like she was very appreciative of all the cake.

That's it for me. Love you all

Elder Hadden

P.S.  I have fancy boots with crampons so it's not too bad