26 Dez (December 26)

I hope you all had a good Christmas! I am going to apologize in advance for some odd grammar things, for some reason this keyboard is set to Spanish and I can´´t switch it back to English, so some of the keys are different, and I can´´t do parenthesis or dashes.

So I wrote to you yesterday about some of the things we did. After emailing time, we had a district meeting, and then we got to walk around the temple. We do that every Sunday afternoon. After that we watched the Mormon Tabernacle Choir program with Sissel, which was really good. In the evening we had a fireside, with Stephan H. Allen as the speaker. He´´s an administrative director person at the MTC. He gave a good talk, he made it kind of light hearted which was rather nice because we were all exhausted after a busy day. After that we watched Mr. Kruger´´s Christmas which was a nice movie, I had never seen it before. It was a pretty good evening.

Yesterday also Elder Bednar gave a really great talk, he talked about how Christ turned outward in compassion and love when the natural man would´´ve turned inward, and focused on himself. He gave a really good impression of the Cookie Monster. ´´I want cookie NOW!´´ Ha. He said that as missionaries, we are here to serve others, not focus on ourselves, and it´´s a very short period of time we have to dedicate ourselves, full time, entirely in serving others. And when we are having a difficult time, to remember we are here to serve others, and not to spend our time worrying about ourselves. He also talked about how conversion is more than just having a testimony. It was a really good talk, and really cool to have an apostle come and speak to us.

Things are going pretty well in general. The language is coming slowly, but I think I´´m making some progress. We finished teaching our first pretend investigator, and we committed him to baptism! Even more exciting than that was the fact that we were able to say enough words to answer his questions and sort of understand what he was saying.

I am sorry this is a little short, I wasted some time because the first two computers I tried, the spacebar didn´´t work, and then I tried to fix this one to get it off of Spanish, but it won´´t switch. See I can type cool characters like ñ and ç. But there really isn´´t much new happening here, that I didn´´t tell you yesterday. I hope you are all doing well, and that you got more snow than we did. It was really warm here yesterday. I love you!