Well Christmas day was great! I had some of the coolest experiences. On Christmas, L. Tom Perry spoke to us and before that, Elder Neil Anderson spoke. I have seen four apostles since I have been here! So yes, Christmas is a little different here. To start things off we had a special roomate gathering Christmas Eve. We made the best fort ever! It looked like a sheperds tent so that's how we tide it into Christmas!
Thank you so much for the gifts. I apreciate them all. The $$ and the supplies will help very much. I am sorry I couldn't get presents out. I hope all of you who received pictures of me appreciated that gift! I do pray for you all nightly and keep you in my thoughts. So what did everyone get??? I will be excited to hear how things went. Did you all enjoy Yellowstone afterwards? I bet everyone met at Uncles Steves. How did that go???
Oh my gosh!! Ok, so as I have been writing this letter wating for Elder L Tom Perry to come speak to us and there was a special musical number that a sister missionary just sang. When the piano played just the first 3 notes of the sone I started crying. It was "Mary's Lullaby" My friend immediately asked me what was wrong, but I couldn't answer him. When I could I explain what this song meant to me and that is was Mom's (Rena) song she sang every year at Christmas. I hate to say it but I felt like I haven't been able to feel her spirit yet since I have been here, but I felt her love so much during that song...It was so beautiful. Obvoiusly it wasn't as good as mom sang it because let's be serious no one sings it as good as she did. That was such an amazing thing for me. It happened about 10 mins ago so about 10:05am Christmas morning. Who knows maybe you all did something special at that time. I'm going to listen to an apostal of our Lord now.
Man, that was a good talk from Elder Perry. It was hard to pay attention because of that song though. I still can't believe she sang that song , I am so happy and grateful she did. I just saw Sister Amber Kempton and talked to her about it and she said she was thinking about me when she was singing it. I see her all the time actually...it is awesome! Also after the meeting was over, I went and talked to the sister who sang the song and asked why she sang it. She told me she was actually going to sing "Oh Holy Night" but everyone sings it so the music people (AKA mom)...hahahah Just kidding...they had her sing that song. I told her how much that song meant to me and said thank you. She was really lad to have sung it. It was so cool.
So again, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas....Happy New Year now!!!
I am still workin hard with my comp and teachings like 3-4 lessons a day. in spanish i might add! but they dont understand what i say so i guess it doesn't count.......no they do. so tell me how yellow stone was. what all did you do there? it sounded like it was going to be a really fun trip for you all.
well three weeks from this freakin second i am going to be in Chile! So if you have anything else you need to send me you better make it quick! haha just messin. but seriously. today i talked with this one guy who went to my mission. he actually opened the mission. i may have mentioned that last week but we spoke with him again today. we talked how we could scare away the wild dogs that always bark at you and try to bite you with your umbrella. when they come running at you i guess you can open it at the right time and it opens and snaps and their scared. i know it sounds stupid but i'd rather do that than get rabies. and i dont want to kick them (welll i wouldn't mind if it was freakin annoying) but i wouldn't becasue i dont want people thinkin ima jerk. so you know. "sometimes Chancho, you wear stretchy pants just for fun".
so one of my teachers left the other day. he is going to study abroad in jerusalem so we have two new teachers that teach us along as hermana ampuno. She is still here. she is the one i had that really embarrassing thing happen with.....but she's way cool. All my teachers are super chill.
So Elder Tolman left a week ago, that was weird saying bye to him. that was way awesome to be able to see him and spend some time with him being a missionary. we ate together a few times and sat bye each other at a couple devotionals. with our comps of course. seriously i am so excited to find out where all you guys are going. i see Sam Spencer here all the time. Shane Sterr, Zach Lindley (who is also actually a Zone Leader), ANDREW SPROUL! haha oh man i love that kid, he's way funny, oh ya josh you will like this one...that one army kid who you played basketball against. i think he was on john warners team or something. There's a lot of people i know here.
Well, things are going great for me. Just trying to keep up the continual growth and learning all that i can here. Oh ya! Last night in the referal center i was doing spanish calls. It was really cool. i actually had real conversations with real people. In spanish! one thing is for sure. the gift of tongues is so real and amazing. i am a living example of that. i mean i know im totally amazing and stuff already but it helps me a ton. on the calls its really fun to talk to them. Especially old mexican ladies. their the funniest. they always drag out their words. like hoooolaaaaaaa como estaaaaaaaaaaa. like that. so i just do it right back. i think they think im fluent when i do that. it kinda tricks them you know? and if i dont know what to say back i just mumble stuff back really fast and they'll go, o si! its awesome i love talking to people that speak spanish here. its so funny. when ever i start speaking with someone i say lo siento mi espanol es terriiiiiiiiible. they always laught even tho it is a way stupid joke. but i am pretty sure ever missionary joke is horrible. seriously i have heard some of the dumbest things here. hahaha but its ok and everything is funnier in spanish. its just a given fact.
ok i love you all. my time is up. i will write next week!
nos vemos,
Elder Elder
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