Well here we are at Christmas.

It´s already Christmas, wow, where has the time gone!!!! It´s projected to be 97 degrees on Christmas.. my first ever like that.

This week was a pretty normal week, nothing really spectacular happened. We are still working and doing our best. But we did uncover a few things about the history of the branch and why it is kind of struggling. So, people have gone pretty inactive because of the branch president, because he like hardly ever does anything, which is a problem. And on Sundays the ward would probably fall apart if the missionaries weren´t there. for example, yesterday at church. I played the organ for the hymns. We blessed the sacrament. We gave talks. We even did a musical number Noche de Luz (silent night) I played the piano and E Lybbert sang. So this week we are focusing on meeting with members to talk to them specifically about their importance in contributing to the ward and coming to church on time (it starts at 9:00, but the majority are there at about 9:40.) So that´s our focus.

This upcoming week should be a pretty relaxed one. Today, Pday. Wednesday, the Mission Christmas Party. It´s gonna be dope, and the office elders have set up a bunch of stuff. Thursday in the pench at 7. Friday, Christmas pday. So yeah it should be pretty great.

We did find one woman this week to teach. Her husband died a little bit ago. We taught a menos activo family Ha nacido un salvador (a savior is born) and she just came over and listened because we taught the lesson outside. so then the next day we taught the plan of salvation, and now today were gonna teach the restoration!! should be pretty great.

Yesterday a dog came inside our pench. We left the door open and we were in our room talking and what not and then I got up and it was just in the kitchen being dumb. But haha there are like 3 street dogs that chill outside the pench. All I do is whistle and they all come runnin haha. but yeah this one in the pench is super skinny and we named it Deer because it is so big and skinny. but yeah.

I don´t know if there´s anything else. I had another intercambio with Elder Willard which was fun. He´s super old in the mission and ends in like april. I got some of his wisdom.

Have a very Happy Christmas and a merry good year. Enjoy the snow. All my white shirt´s collars are yellow haha.

Remember why we celebrate Christmas, it´s something everyone has to find out for themselves. you can teach it, but until you apply teachings they really don´t mean anything. That´s what i´ve found.

Love, Elder Anderson