Christmas

Oh how sweet it was to hear my family this christmas dayª"  I was touched by your words of love and can÷t believe that a whole year has gone by without your warming hugs  There is a lot of work to do here in Uruguay but let me tell you, there is a lot of work to do in Arizona tooªªª  ;)  I had a great time chatting with you all and was blown away once again at the beauty of our family and home.  There are so many blessings that i took for granted.  I am humbled every time i remember what kind of life i lived before the mission.  Here, i am in a GREAT ward/area and yet i am STILL in humble circumstances.  I love my family and love the joy that comes from conversing with them.  It was great to see all the Instagram photos.  I was unable to download them because they are not JPG files.  If they are JPGs i can download them and look at them during the week on my little dvd player. :) for future reference.

Ju´st to give you a glimpse of what i am going through right now, in this instant... i am in a "Ciber" or public computer lab and i have a drop of sweat dropping of of my nose every 10 seconds, one dropping off of my elbow every 5 and my white shirt looks as if i have been dowsed with a hose!!! hah.  It is so stinking humid here that i sweat GALLONS of water everyday.  Oh well, we keep working anyways! ;)

Today we played basketball again and i tore up the court! helps when only 4 people on the court know how to play. ;) i`m not quite like lo` McKay!!! looks like he is doing quite well!  Hope to hear about his success.  Let me know if he is planing on going to college and where!  Mission updates if there are any. :)

All is well in Uruguay, just surviving the heat.  we had quite a turn out from the ward`s activity for the end of the year, almost 100people came to see the primary do a skit about the birth of Jesus and then we did an activity with the ward to show them the importance of working together.  We had a sunday FULL of blessings.  records in every aspect!  We had 102 people in church (Normal we are 80) we had 2 investigators (the two that we were not expecting to come to church) and 6 less actives!  WE just got a returned missionary that got home and he is super excited to help us.  I know that we are going to see GREAT blessings in this ward!

Love you all!!

Elder Reay