Hey Family, Friend and Loved ones! I will start by saying it was wonderful to talk to the selected few yesterday! It was good to hear your voices and hear even Marley speaking! GAHH! 7 months is a long time since the last call but it was good :)
So I will talk a little about our week since its these emails of for friends, family, as well as my posterity some day haha. Tuesday usually is a slow day on the mission. You try and get to all the appointments you made the week before and sometimes it just seems like everything falls through. Gratefully, this week was different. It just seemed like everyone was at home and all were anticipating the missionaries. It was a little blessing that made the week start off well. We were both happy and amazed that our Tuesday went so well. Wednesday, we headed to another Chapel on the other side of the city to have our ´´Commeration of the Birth of Christ as a Mission´´ or in other words our Christmas party haha. It was a good day to sit back and catch up with a lot people. There was a talent show which consisted of everything from people singing hymns, dancing, playing guitar, and even some Elder showed us how to fold a shirt in 5 seconds. The skit of the ´´arobic swimmers´´ was done by a few americans and we ended with a nice spirirtual thought from President and Sister Souza. Their family was in town for the holidays so they had to present everyone. It was interesting but I thought of our trip to Chile visiting Grandpa and Grandma in the MTC or CCM 11 years ago! Man time flies. We got back to our area kinda late but still had time to visit a few people.
The rest of the week up until Saturday was good we tried to stay as focused as possible and met some our goals for the week. Sometimes its a little hard when you had ´´Point of Grace´´ playing or trying to explain to brazilians the purpose of wrapping gifts and waiting to Christmas day. Saturday and Sunday slowed way down. Everyone went out of town or just seemed to be ´´´tipping back the bottle´´ So it was a lot safer for us to stay inside or go to members houses. Our Christmas Eve consists of making Cake mix cookies and talking about past christmas memories with family and friends. We made ourselves a little homesick but it was all good. Sunday was way good. We woke up, opened our packages and then got ready for church. Our lunch appointment was in a recent converts house (as I said yesterday) which basically was just like a movie. I felt like we were being filmed. Elbow to Elbow at a small dinner table with The Mom yelling at her sons, the Dad just sitting there acting like nothing was going on, the two sons fighting, singing or throughing food, and two Elders sitting across from eachother laughing. The Mom, just kept going on and on about how this was the first Christmas that the entire family would sit at the table together and everyone was going to be happy. I just couldnt help but laugh. We went home for a little bit and then afterward made our calls to everyone.
I love you all and hope you all have a great New Year. Things might be changing but something that has definatly stayed constant is my testimony of this work, of our Savior and my love for my entire family. I hope you all have a good week and continue to remember the blessings that come from our Father in Heaven.
Until 2012 WHOOOP!
Love,
Elder N. Anderson
Pictures:
Feliz Natal!
Christmas Morning!
Our Christmas Tree :)
With All this pregnant talk! Hope you all know that this missionary just had his first baby!
Feliz Natal e Ano Novo!
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