12-17-13

Otra foto de mi compañero y yo.  Tristes que vamos a cambiar áreas pero sabemos que los traslados vienen de Dios.

The last day with my companion.... hard thing to grasp but it had to happen! haha :)  Elder Macavilca and i had a great change together and we have both ended up BETTER missionaries and better men. :)  Some day you will all get to meet him!

This is called the Mastil in las piedras.  Outside the stake building.  we arrived early to a meeting and took some photos before we left for a huge tri-zone conference

The zone leaders just walked in to write their families.  One of them is going home tomorrow.  Super crazy to trry and understand the feelings he mush be experiencing

This ismy district!  We ROCK! :) haha

Having fun in a house full of latinos... now we will have a house full of GRINGOS!  everyone is leaving the district.  ALL the latinos left... the three gringos stayed.. :) my only chance is that hermana Coon and Hermana young train a latina so that i can practice my spanish! haha

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Sorry i forgot to tell you about changes last week!  haha. i got home and told my comp that you were going to kill me. :) just so you know, every six weeks it is going to be this way... haha.  I am so excited for CHRISTMAS!  quite sad that i am not going to be spending it with elder Macavilca, but my new comp is from my group!  Elder Parker.  He is from louisiana and has a THICK southern accent.  I will probably pick it up a little. ;)  I set up a Skype profile and sent the username and password to dad`s email so you guys can connect to one of your lap tops or something to make sure there aren`t any bugs.  We have a member here named Josè Fernandez Paz, he used Skype all the time and has his computer hooked up to a television screen.  Maybe i will ask him to connect with you one day this week.  If he does, i will tell him to do it at 10 o`clock here, i`m pretty sure that will be 5 o clock there.  he speaks little to no english,k but served in Mexico as well as his little sister.  They are a great family and it is a huge blessing that they are going to let us use their home.  He, (Jose) will connect with you and send you and instant message through SKYPE to let you know when were going to do it.  We are allowed to Skype the 24th or the 25th.  When my new comp gets here we will see what fits his parents better as well.  So if everything goes my way i think that we will be calling you the 24th but the time is depending on you guys.  We could also try to do it early christmas day.  So when you all wake up, we can talk! I like that idea, but we will see. ;)  I can`t wait to see you all!  We get one hour each. :) Presidents permission.

Ok... So here are some fun facts for you... this week i had one of the FUNNIEST experiences with the Spanish language.  When you are learning a new language,you learn rapidly how to make it look like you know what they are saying when in reality... you`re lost.  So this week i got a text from a member (the members that are going to let us use their house for Skype) and she asked me if we had gotten ahold of the "Pigs" for christmas... I had NO IDEA what she meant.  SO i asked my comp and he said, "she must just be messing with us, pigs are super expensive here." so i texted her back, trying to flip the joke back on her and said, "We heard that YOU were going to buy us one for the christmas season!" she said we must have confused her with the other Majo in our ward and so we left the "Joke" at that.  two days later (Yesterday) we were having lunch with them and Majo`s mom asked us AGAIN if we had gotten ahold of the pigs for christmas.  I looked around confused and they all looked at me, i said, "why do you keep asking me about the pigs??" and they said that they had been looking for pigs all week because WE had asked them to!  My companion and i looked at each other and said, "We didn’t ask you to look for PIGS!!! why on earth would we do that??!!"  Then we started looking though the conversation on her phone and come to find out... a week ago i had sent a text to Majo asking for LEAHONAS.... but i misspelled it and put LECHONAS which means pig here.... haha. we laughed so hard! they spent a WEEK looking around uruguay for cheep pigs.  haha.  They had COUNTLESS conversations about why on earth the elders would want pigs... especially because they are so stinking expensive!  We laughed so hard yesterday.  That will be an inside joke with this family for forever.

Here in Uruguay, NOBODY has ac.... instead, everyone buys those outdoor pools.  EVERYONE.  almost every house has one outside their home,and oh how i wanna hopp´on in one!  It is BLAZING hot here.  

We have a baptism this week!  Super excited! his name is Michael.  (My-cole) and WOW let me tell you he has progressed way faster than we expected.  He has schizophrenia but has medications that keep him normal and in a right state of mind.  When we teach him... you can feel his spirit reach out and touch you.  He has purchased a suit, white shirt, tie, a briefcase (For all the pamphlets and books we have given him) and he has come to every activity and church meeting since we met him.  THat includes, 2 activities of futbol, 2 sundays to all the reunions, 1 big family home evening held by the ward, and is currently helping us re-activate his neighbors!  He is a missionary at heart. :)  He will be baptized on the 21st as a christmas present to all of us. :)  

I love you all so much!!

Merry christmas!

SEE you in a week!