Wow, so many questions haha! 
But first I want to thank everyone for the letters, a few days ago I received about 5 letters in the mail! haha. Thanks Grandma Birch for the gift, I needed some stamps and they came at the right time! And I loved the Cottles Christmas card! Thank you. To answer some questions, we still have a car because of the singles ward, it covers the Lone Mountain stake, Tule Springs stake, and Elkhorn Springs stake, so it's a vey large area for one singles ward, the other two wards are very small compared to everything else.  It's a pretty nice area of town that we're in.  It's not a resort area but there are really nice houses.  The wards consist mainly of young families with little kids.  This is the area that the AP's covered (assistants to the president) for years until a few months ago, and they really sucked it dry, meaning there's no work! haha So we're trying to build it back up, and there are 2 people that will be baptized in the next couple weeks that Pennington taught.  The apartment is really nice, nicer then my last one, so I'm thankful for that.  We have been doing a lot of visits to the members.  I don't know yet when I will be able to skype, we just have to find a member to go use their computer, but hopefully I will know by next Monday and I'll let you know.
I'm glad to here everyone will be together for the progressive dinner on the 23rd. I'm curious to why Krisity's family is moving to the Cayman Islands?  That sounds like a blast. haha And it was funny to hear about Mason and Lexie working as a team to cause trouble, I miss them so much but excited to see them on Christmas!
Everything else is going well and I hope everyone has a safe holiday leading up to Christmas. Love Elder Smith

Oh and by the way, We woke up on Saturday to snow on the mountains!!! But then it melted hahah it looked cool.