welllll hello family and friends!
id like to start off saying that mom and dad your christmas
package is primetime!! man im loving it! every morning i wake up and im so
pumped to see what the 12 days of christmas has to bring me!
the letters i have opened from my christmas package have
been soo sweet! they make every single one of my days...
Grandpa, Gammy, Steve Halturdman, Savannah, Brucey, and
Danielle Emery! thank you sooo much for your letters! you have no idea the
smile that was on my face when i was reading them!
special shoutout to Danielle... DDDD!! for realz???? you
sent me stance socks!! you knew exactly what was on my christmas list! i nearly died when i saw sweet socks in the package! thank you! you are
awe-summmmmm
while you are all freezing im sweating like you wouldnt
believe.... i have never sweat more in my life! haha ill be the first one to
tell you im not a fan of humidity.... ITS COOKING OUT HERE! the actual weather
isnt that hot but im gonna die! haha ive never spent a christmas time sweating
in my bed while im sleeping!
anyways! this week was mega freaking fast! FLEW BY!
let me tell some quick stories here
So ive told you about my homegirl Mercelina... shes the 91
year old lady that we walk to church every week.
So shes 91 years old right... she walks like a CHAMP, doesnt
even need glasses to read, and is MEGA MEGA AWESOME!
Shes like 3 feet tall and missing a good portion of her
teeth but that dont matter because shes as sweet as they come
anyways the other day shes trying to get me to eat this way
crayyyy fruit.. it was watermelon... way crayy right?
i wasnt in the mood to start gagging so i kept making up
excuses as to why i didnt want to eat it
marcelina was not giving in.
haha i was thinking come on gammy i just dont want to eat
it!
so finally i told her i had a serious fobia of foods and ive
got phsychological issues (i dont know how to spell that word)
she died laughing and instantly starting making fun of me.
after a good 5 minutes of being laughed at by someone 4
times my age i wasnt taking it anymore! haha!!
so i said "ok Marcelina if you dont stop making fun of
me im not going to walk you to church tomorrow!"
you best believe that she stopped laughing at me and i
walked her to church the next day.
Watermelon got the best of me that day.
Ive got issues!
ummm this week we had a sweet activity with our elders quorum.
we were able to bring some inactive members which was really
good
we played futbol.... or SOCCER
haha oooo baby girl do i suck at soccer! i looked like a
tard out there!
all these argentines schooled me
just when i thought i was an athletic person... WRONG
haha but dont matter i was running around, screaming and
being a dumby.... being myself... i got some good laughs in and so did they
I had my 1st baptisms the other week!!!! oooo baby girl
soooo awesome
the family consists of a single mom named Aida with 4
children
the father died 4 years ago
1 of the daughters is 15 years old and was baptized 2 months
ago.
we baptized the mom and her two other kids who are 9 years
old and 8 years old.
i cant tell you how much joy this day brought me
Ill share a quick story about the baptism.
so i was baptizing Mikaela the 9 year old girl.
When i got in the font i instantly forgot the baptism prayer
in spanish!
anyway somebody told me the prayer, i figured it out, and it
was all good in the hood
after the baptisms i cant tell you how happy i was.
the 4 months ive been in argentina have been so hard but
seeing the joy on the single mothers face after her baptisms made every single
one of those hard days worth it.
looking at Aida after her baptism i saw a completely new
person.
looking into the eyes of a single mother who is trying to
take care of her kids all by herself i felt a sense of peace and warmth within her that i cant describe.
i couldnt help but just look at her as tears gathered in my eyes.
i knew that she had found the one and only true plan that
her Father in Heaven has for her.
i knew that she had found christ.
she had found his true love.
looking at this single mother who had just made one of the
biggest eternal steps to be able to return home to her heavenly father not only did i feel the truthfulness of this gospel, i visually saw it.
i saw pure joy and happiness
i saw the pure love of jesus christ overwhelm her
looking at her i realized that this is what the true gospel
of Jesus Christ looks like.
MEGA MEGA SWEET DAY! I was crying like a little girl!
sometimes i reallllly wish i wasnt such a cry baby!
well its Christ-mas! haha man christmas is so different over
here! i think mainly because of the temp... im used to a white christmas not a
sweaty christmas... but its all good!
As its Christ-mas time we should always be thinking about
what we are truly celebrating.
And that is the birth of our savior as well as the
life he lived for us.
It is my promise to you that during this holiday if you put
your main focus and thoughts on Jesus Christ and not so much on the other
things that come with the holiday season then you will receive the most
precious gift and present there is
that is the true feeling of this simple sentence
Jesus Christ loves you
focus on his birth, the perfect life he lived, the sacrifice
he gave, the blood he shed, and all of the things he did.
focus on the fact THAT HE DID IT ALL FOR YOU
as we focus on the true meaning of Christ-mas we will
receive the greatest christmas present there is.
a present given to us by our savior
a present you couldnt trade for anything nor does it cost
any money
i hope that all of you can feel this gift of his love during
these holidays.
I know Jesus Christ lives
I know he is my Savior
I know that he loves me
I HOPE YOU DO TOO! :)
Merry Christ-mas
LOVE YOU ALL
PEACE OUT, SMELL YA LATER, SEE YA IN A BIT
LOVE,
Elder Myers
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