Morning Workouts (Daniel December 6)

This last week has been good. We got transfer calls last Saturday, and I am staying here in West Columbia. That means I will be here for at least twice as long as I’ve been in any of my other areas. My companion is staying, and so is Elder Peterson... but... Elder Fulmer is not. It's going to be hard to say good bye to him. He is one of my best Friends. We want to go Mountain biking in Zions together after the mission. Hopefully I will go where he is going, next transfers like what happened when we left Spartanburg. He left first to here, than the next transfer I came too.
Yesterday we only had one Hispanic at church counting members. It was kind of weird. Lately we had been having more and more Members and investigators Sunday after Sunday. Hopefully next Sunday we'll have a lot again.
We are still teaching Christina. We are working a lot with everyone that lives there. We are becoming good friends with the whole family.
Last week I ran into someone that used to live in Grass Lake. Their Ancestors Founded The City back in the 1700's. They lived in Grass Lake until 10-15 years ago. They lived on a big plot of land that went from the street of the Grass Lake Exit, all the way to the lake. I believe their property got broken up a while ago. It was really cool talking to them. They knew exactly were North Portage was, and had some family that lived on Brown Street, that is the street Andrew lived on when we still lived in Michigan. and they would go shopping at Franks all the time.
My morning workouts are slowly getting better. I dropped down from doing 160, to 120 push ups, but now I go down till my chest or nose touches the ground, and this is with using he perfect push up handles, so you have to go down about three extra inches to hit the ground. The pushups are about twice as hard as Boy Scout pushups. I don't have very much slack on my shirt sleeves any more. I decided I really enjoy working out, but I miss running. It is starting to get cold here, so no one wants to go running with me. It's still pretty warm in the middle of the day. In the morning, it’s around the 30's or 40's. The cold here is different. Your insides get colder faster, and the cold goes through coats faster, but it doesn’t get cold on the finger, ears, or skin hardly at all.
I love you all, and can't wait till Christmas.
Elder Finch
P.S. I really enjoyed the Christmas First Presidency Fireside.