Right place at the right time

Howdy!

I am getting soooooo stoked for Thanksgiving this week and also my birthday! 19 years old, can't believe it. We already have 1 dinner scheduled for Thanksgiving with an awesome family. And we will probably get more people to invite us. On Thanksgiving day we don't proselyte at all so it's basically another P-Day. We will be playing football with our ward at one of the highschool football fields at 8 am on thursday. That is going to be awesome. And then we will just eat and chill the rest of the day. 

  This past week has been pretty great. It's been real cold this weekend so we've been dressed pretty heavily. We haven't riden our bikes in like 5 days. That's a long time for us. We just walk everywhere now. It's alot easier to talk to people when your walking. We had a really awesome experience happen this week. I was on an exchange with Elder Evans (zone leader) and we were walking and we saw a girl across the street and went and talked to her. She is 16 and was pretty shy to talk to us but she took a book of Mormon and was really interested in what we told her and she said we could meet her at Barnes and Noble the next day. So we went to Barnes and Noble the next day at 1 and we looked and looked and we couldn't find her. And I was like great... thats the last time we'll see her, we didn't get her cell number from her. So 5 or 6 days past and I had been praying that somehow we would find her again. I was on another exchange with Elder Stohel (zone leader) and we had seen a few people and we were back at our apartment and we weren't sure what to do, we had set a goal to find a new investigator that day and so Elder Stohel was like, "Well do you want to go find one now?" And I was like sure! So we walked out of our apartment and walked down the road maybe 100 yards and I saw someone walking towards us so I was like lets talk to her. She got close and I was like, "Hi how are you doing today?...wait, have we met?" It was Sammy, the girl we had seen almost a week ago. She had told us that her dad wouldn't let her go to Barnes and Noble that day but she really wanted to find us again. She's awesome and Im pretty sure we will Baptize her. It just goes to show how the Lord puts us in the right place at the right time.

  Oh also one more thing, yesterday at church Gabriel asked me if I would confirm him. I was so happy when he asked me that. It was awesome to be able to do that for him. It felt awesome. The spirit was very strong and I knew exactly what to say during the blessing. 

  Well everyone I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving this week. I am SO grateful for everything I have. Im grateful for my family, friends, how I grew up, the Gospel, and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I really am grateful to be serving a mission right now. I'm loving it and I'm having the time of my life here in Indiana. Oh.... I forgot to tell you all, Im NOT getting transferred and neither is Elder Crook. We will be here for at least another 6 weeks. It's gonna be awesome. Im so stoked for Christmas and to call home. I hope you all have a great week and a happy Thanksgiving! I love and miss you all!

Elder Eastin