Hi Mom,

Hope you had a great BIRTHDAY! Glad you were able to do something fun.  Brennan seemed to be very excited about seing the hobbit when we talked at Christmas, I am also a fan of said hobbit, ha ha, so that is cool that you all got to see it. I hope Brett will be able to get his job soon. Wow, all that snow! That's crazy!  I haven't seen snow in a while. Things are going well here.  We got our mission leader yesterday and he seems pretty excited to work with us so that is good.  Things are really not so well with the families we've been teaching.  One - they don't want to get married which is sad when they have 12 years together and 4 kids.  Two - another family wants that the Dad can listen too, but considering we find out that he doesn't want to listen to us, that doesn't really help.  He says it's fine that his family listens and everything but he doesn't want anything to do with it, "I was born and will die catholic". Not to be disrespectful, but I find it interesting that during my whole time as a missionary no one has been able to tell me why they are catholic.  We're always looking for more people to teach, it's pretty sad how pretty much all the families have the same problem of never being married or that the parents don't even want to be together. I like being able to share "The Family, a Proclamation" with people. Last week when we were coming back to the room we were going to go up the stairs (we live on the second floor) and I was in front, and it was pretty much pitch black, but I went up about three stairs and I felt very weird, like uncomfortable, I felt (not heard) like someone was coming down the stairs, so I moved up a few stairs and I saw something like a glimpse something coming down the stairs but against the wall and I got to the landing and felt like there was someone there and that I would have to go around them so I took off my backbapck and put it in front of me and there was nothing there, which was very weird, and so we got up to the the room and I asked my companion if he felt something and he said that he felt a very uncomfortalbe feeling too, it was pretty crazy! But after that nothing.  Love you and hope you have a great week!