Hey All!

First off, I apologize that this is a day late. My companion and I were down with a pretty bad case of 24 hour flu yesterday. We basically called into to Sister Beck letting her know that we weren’t going to be able to work and then slept ALL day trying to kick the thing. When we woke up this morning we were still a little achy but are doing a lot better. I hope you forgive me for the delay ☺

I hope that you all had a fantastic Christmas! Mine was pretty awesome. Christmas Eve we went over to a members house and spent a couple hours over there eating beans, menudo, pretzels, candy…all sorts of stuff. Christmas Day was pretty awesome. Early in the morning our whole zone came down to our area and we climbed South Mountain. It took us about 45 minutes to climb up and about 15 to “walk” down. There were actually three of us (Elder Huston, Elder Sieber, and myself) that decided to run the trail on the way down so we cut down a lot of travel time. After our venture up the mountain the elders in our district got together and we played some Christmas Day Shackball that was pretty intense ☺. I’ll attach a picture next week of the event. After Shackball we spent the afternoon with Elders Parkin and Snook (two of the English elders in our district) where we went and had a real Haitian lunch at one of their Recent Converts. Afterwards we ran over to a family in one of their wards where we took the FANTASTIC opportunity to call our folks.

Being able to call home was an interesting and incredible experience. I have to be honest; about 30 minutes before we were supposed to call I started to get pretty nervous to call. I’m not really sure why but I did. When I finally called it was probably one of the best Christmas presents I have ever had. You really don’t realize how much you miss something until you go so long without having it. ☺ After the call home, we spent the rest of the night with the family then called it good.

Other than that, not a lot has happened. We have been fighting some annoying bike problems this past week but think we have finally fixed everything. That and this past Sunday was the last with the massive ward we were in. If you remember from one of my past posts, Montana del Sur ward was split into two and the changes go into effect the new year. So, come this Sunday, our ward will go to the size of 12 active families. Needless to say, we have a lot of work to do!

But, I am about out of time. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and that you all have a safe and Happy New Year! For all those BYUins that will be going back to school next week, travel safe back to school and best of luck on your first week of the semester!! Know that you all are loved, missed, and are in my prayers!!