Well it has been quite a week with the Holidays and everything. We had a Christmas conference with one half of the mission on tuesday and that was really cool. I am not really even sure what all happened this week because time kind of flies by and gets all mixed together so I will pay more attention for next week. It has been interesting to have my first Christmas in the summer season. I kind of miss cool weather, but the warmth definitely opens some new possibilities for celebration. So in Uruguay Christmas eve is the big holiday where everyone celebrates, and Élder Lockhart knew that it would not be possible to get a set lesson with anyone, so what he did was bake a bunch of sugar cookies and we took them around to everyone we know to use as an excuse to get into there house and talk about Christ with them and share cookies. It was a really good Idea, and the cookies weren't half bad either. In fact I would only say that they were about 10% bad, and 90% good. Also I don't really spend very mush money in this area, so I have saved up a ton already, so I decided to treat myself by dropping 1,000 pesos uruguayos on a Christmas eve feast. I got three bags of milk and a bag of chocolate milk, and a bag of chocolate powder, and a bunch of alfahors, and a kilo of dulce de leche,and these uruguayo pie things called frolas. It was pretty great. Speaking of that my super market just had a whole piglet for sale in the carnecería. I couldn't afford it though and it wouldn't fit in my oven anyway. We had permission to stay out untill ten thirty with a memeber that night so we went to our recent convert Victors house. He and his wife are Chilenos so the made us food from Chile which is a lot like food from Uruguay, just with some different ingredients and made in a different way. Any way I didn't have room after to eat all the stuff I bought. We also had permission to stay up until midnight thirty to watch the fire works. What we did is that Elder Lockhart climbed up on our roof and I handed him our chairs and things and those of you who have climbed onto the roofs of things with me before know that I am not very good at climbing so I kind of pulled myself up there and flopped onto the roof, and then we just sat up there and ate alfahors and drank yerba. At 12:00 the fire works started. It was amazing and way better than the fourth of july. It was like all at once the entire country, at least where there are peoples and not cowtles, started erupting with mortars. Definitely the most exuberant celebration in honor of the birth of Christ I have ever seen. It was like everyone made a pact that they would be seen from Mars or expend all of their amunition trying. A floating lantern landed in the tree in front of our house and we thought it was going to burn down but it didn't.
On Christmas we only had church for one hour, and it rained really hard. We ate lunch with the Cardoso family, who have a son on a mission in Brazil. It was a really great meal of meat and beets and things. After that I got to skype my family. My skype account miraculously worked and it was really great to see them. The time went by too fast though, and I got a little teary eyed when I had to press to off button, so I had to sit there for a minute and be melancholy, then I got up and went back to work. Later that night when my comp was doing his skype I got a lot of quiet time to just sit in the chapel and think about the birth of Christ. It was cool to be able to feel really close to him and I am gratefull that we all take the effort to celebrate him.
Also my friend Reid Honeycutt turned 19 this week so if you see him wish him happinesses.
1: Captain crunch from America for breakfast
2: my pile of junk food
3: A woodpecker
4: Me drinking mate on the roof
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