Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!
Cant believe Christmas is already here again. The
year sure went by fast! Last Christmas away from home. . And in 7 more months
and a week I'll be home! Crazy. Well I'm glad I'm not home if there is no snow!
That's just depressing. It better snow next year. . It makes it a lot easier
being in Mexico because it just feels the same as the rest of the year. At home
the spirit in the air seems to change, here it doesn't. But oh well
Christmas is a great opportunity in the mission to focus on the true meaning,
and realize how grateful I am for the life we have at home, it's seriously the
best.
This week was pretty good, we seemed to have lots
of distractions and things that took us out of our area but overall it was
pretty good. We had Jose's baptism! It was super good, we had it on Saturday so
he could be confirmed on Sunday because he left for vacations today. Last year
the week of and after Christmas were the worst ever because everybody and their
dog goes on vacation, and want to leave this awful city and to to the beaches.
Hope it all goes well. Not many people went to his baptism, but it turned out
pretty good nonetheless. His grandpa baptized him, and got an infection from
the nasty Mexico tap water. So he was in the hospital Sunday afternoon, but
they gave him some shots and he's ok now. Ha so that was interesting.
Today was our mission Christmas activity! Well for
4 zones at least. We had half a pday on Saturday and had the activity until 3:00
today. It was good, we had a little devotional, talent show, and ate carnitas.
(tacos of pig). I decided to take a little risk and put one of the advices in my
patriarchal blessing to the test about music. Elder Guillen sings really good
and loves David Archulletas Glorious (in the new meet the Mormons movie??) So I went online and printed off the sheet music, and it's not the easiest song to
play and I only had about 2 or 3 hours of practice in total but I learned it
and we preformed it today! It wasn't perfect, but it turned out pretty dang good
for the little practice we had.
We continue finding many new people to teach,
almost too many its hard to keep them all straight. Next week if everything
goes good we should baptize a couple named Javier and Jazmine. Really great both
of them, but they need to overcome their alcohol addiction. Shouldn't be a
problem though, they've already progressed a ton, and with this week they should
be good.
Well I guess I will talk to y'all Thursday!! So you
want me to call at 3 or 4 our time... deal. I will call around 5:00 my time
which is 4:00 Your time. I think we are gonna call from our converts Jose
and Martha's house. So I'm super excited for that!!
Well I love you all tons, I'm gonna miss you guys a
lot this week but its ok, next Christmas I'll be there. haha I just hope we can
all can take a minute, a day, or the whole week to be thinking about Christ and
his great sacrifice for us and how much our Heavenly Father loves us for giving
him.
Love you all, have a super merry Christmas, and
talk to you on Thursday!!!
Love Elder Elgan
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