December 5, 2011 (Week 49, Month 11, Day 335)

Hello Mom,

And yeah it is my 11th month out, and today I finished the Book Of Mormon for the second time while on my mission. It is going by quite fast, and I was getting a little overwhelmed because it is going by so fast. So by the way, have you been reading your scriptures everyday, and pray in the morning and at night?

That is a pretty cool about the story that D C told at the ward Christmas breakfast. When I get back I will have to show you a movie about a guy that found a Book Of Mormon in an alley. You never know what impact you have on others, even just by leaving a Book Of Mormon laying around.

Yesterday we went and watched the Christmas devotional.

I love you and thank you for all that you do for me. And Merry Christmas. I can now use my phrase, some people like to get after me during the rest of the year.

Love Elder Wood

3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.