1/2/12

I have not laughed that hard in a long time. I wish I could have been there to see the whole deer incident. I think I might print that part off and read it again and again. Well I'm glad sean gave a good home coming talk. Does that mean andrew is the last to come home before me? Not to make you trunky or think about things like that though. Just a thought. Don't remeber who is still on there missions and who isn't. And so transfers haven't happened yet. This transfer was extended by a week because of new years and it would have been impossible to get flights for everyone today because of holidays and everything. So we had an ok week. New years isn't exactly the best time for missionary work because everyone wants to go out and get drunk and stuff like that. But we still had 3 baptisms on friday and the mission in total had 130 baptisms this month so thats good. But yeah I forgot to tell you that for christmas we bought a gift for a family in our area because they invited us to dinner. We bought them monopoly and they love it. Board games aren't exactly common here so it was nice to give them something they'd probably never be able to have themselves. And they've already played it a lot. We had to translate the instructions into portuguese and play the first game with them to teach them how (and they didn't even end up reading the instructions) and now they're playing it almost every night as a family. Board games are awesome for the gospel. Then on new years we came hom early for obviouse reasons and I made ice cream and cookies and we made pizza and our neighbor gave us a cake and all that stuff. Over all it was a good haven from the madness outside. And the location of our house is just outside of the madness as well so it was nice. And our landlord catholic neighbor isn't exactly the party type so she didn't make any noise. Although we do imagine her playing rock band upstairs sometimes though. So Dad said that he sent out the cards and I'm thinking that should probably be the last package you send out just incase it take forever and a day to get here. like normal. I still haven't got my christmas package because nobody has island jumped in a while. So you want to hear something crazy. There's only one Elder here in the mission that goes home before me haha. I'm old. And moldy. And I can almost legally break the word of wisdom and Gamble! Well that's about it for this week. Just full of partying and us trying to avoid said parties. Well love you all and have a good start to the year and make it a good year because this is the year the world ends!
e.weiss