Dear Family and Friends,

This last week was great. Sister Chadwick and I were hoping for snow and imagining that the fog we were engulfed in the past couple of days was snow, but it is about 65 degrees today. It looks like there will be no snow. Thanksgiving was so good. People are so good to the missionaries! We ate two dinners and then had dessert later that evening. Of course, I ate way too much! The thing that was the most unique was that they eat cornbread dressing here and don't really do pies for dessert. However, there are some people from New York that live here so we got our fill of pie. I am in the process of collecting some good recipes to share with y'all.

This past week we truly saw the blessings that come from fasting and paying fast offerings. Last week we drained our funds for the month of December and we had two weeks left to go before we got more money. We were worried about what we would do especially with food and with toilet paper. All throughout last week, people kept giving us food-leftovers, dinner in their homes and dinners for us to take and cook for ourselves, etc. However, our need for toilet paper still hadn't been fulfilled. We didn't know what we would do! We kept devising ways to get toilet paper so we would last through this next week, but nothing was happening for us. The blessings of heaven were opened yesterday as a family who spends part of the year in Destin and the other part of the year in Ohio came though Andalusia and gave us the rest of their supplies that they wouldn't need anymore. What happened to be the majority of the stuff they gave us? Yes, toilet paper. The Lord really does keep his promises for paying tithing and fast offerings. This Church really is true!

The high school football team lost its playoff game. And Alabama lost to Auburn. However, the most glorious news came when we found out that BYU beat Utah again. We had a moment of rejoicing and then sang the fight song. Then we got back to work.

Thank you to everyone who sent letters this week. They always help motivate and pick up my spirits. I love you all! Love, Joanna