Hanks 2.0 Across the Pond

Can you believe it??!!   We have totally enjoyed and fully invested ourselves for 5 months here in Taunton and now we are being transferred to the country of WALES!  We will be serving in the most northern, most western part of our mission bountries in a city called Aberystwyth  (Aber-ist-with) !  It is smaller than the town we are serving in now and is a little beach front community. We are a 15 min walk down to the prom, as they call it in Wales, and I think we will really enjoy the expereince of living in a smaller beach side community. Although, it is a LONG way away from our mission office. But we are surrounded by the most beautiful, green rolling hillsides, that are full of more sheep pastures than we have yet seen.  (google photo of Aberystwyth) We will be changing directions in our assignments a little bit, as Aberystwyth is a university town, we will now get to work with the young adults and institute progam. Mondays we get to be involved with the...

 Missionary news first : DRUM ROLL PLEASE....  Our missionaries have put our friend Yuleima and her daughter on date for baptism for Jan 25th ! She is orignially from Venezuela and is a single mom.  We are so excited that mom & daughter will be baptised together! The daughter is 8 years old, so we are rapidly giving her lessons to catch her up by the 25th ! We need your prayers that the adversary doesn't throw them any trials, concerns, problems or events to deter the date! It has been 1.5 yrs since our ward has had a baptism. On to the holidays:  I am sure we have missed out on a lot of amazing Christmas events around England this year - I know for a fact we have!     But we will take the few things we did as a total win in our book and look for bigger and better things next year to add to our adventures over here!  We were able to go to a little village called Catcott and support one of our ward members (who actually grew up in Bountiful, ri...