Christmas Week!!

It was so great to hear from you all! I loved hearing your voices and getting to hear about what is going on. Everyone said that talking with their families on speaker was hard because everyone kept talking but I think ours went well.

I feel bad for poor David but I know he will be well again soon enough! He needs some time to just relax. I had no idea he was getting his wisdom teeth out! Crazy! Did you tell Ben hi for me by the way?

So one thing that I think I am going to need are vitamins. I was going to just buy some at Walmart, but I don't know what I need or anything. That is why I have loving parents like you! Can you tell me what I need and I will get it from Walmart next Monday? I just figure I should be getting more Vitamins!

Another request, I am kind of at a loss for what to cook for meals. I have no idea what to make! Do you have any fast and easy recipes that I would like that you could send me? It is hard living in an apartment where none of the stuff is actually yours so I don't have my cookbooks or anything. I will get over it though. :)

And to answer your question, part member families are common down here yes and a lot of the times it is the dad that isn't baptized. I don't know why it works like that, but it does. But we are working with a few dads and it seems like once their family starts voicing how important it is to them, they come around. It should be cool to see. Hopefully.

To help you out with your Spanish, maybe I will start writing part of my letters in Spanish as time allows. It takes me a little bit longer but if I write a little before hand. I should be fine. And it will be better practice for me. It is crazy for me to think that the next time I call home I should be better with Spanish. Ojala! (Hopefully)

Last night for dinner we went over to a family in the ward and it was so much fun! It was just the 4 of us sisters and they are probably in their late 20s with a 2 year old daughter. It was just so much fun for us all to goof off! Love it! So don't worry about my Christmas night, it was really nice. And it is interesting because today is probably one of the most depressing days in the real world (day after Christmas) but it is totally fine for us because we refuse to believe that yesterday was Christmas. SO CRAZY! 

As far as what this week has in store, we have a lot of appointments and hopefully on Saturday will get to baptize M_____! I am really hoping and praying for a miracle here! His wife wants to start temple prep classes in the new year so I think that should be good motivation enough for him. On New Years Eve they want us to not really be out and about so we are getting together with the other missionaries at around 4 until the end of the night. I don't really know many details about it but last year they watched Toy Story 3 so I am praying for something good! And hopefully yummy food! TAMALES!!! Ha Ha Ha I'm kidding. Tamales really are yummy, I have just eaten like 54 of them in the past two weeks. No big deal though.

Next week we have a new comp training (4th) and I can't wait because all of my MTC district is going to be back together for the day! I am counting down the days because I am literally so stinking excited! I can't wait to see them and hear their stories and just talk to them again! I feel like I haven't seen them in years and it has only been two weeks! O man! I can't wait to serve with them in my area! It is bound to happen sometime!

Well, I love you all so much and I really did love talking to all of you yesterday! I was totally fine the whole time but then when I had to get off the phone I got a little choked up. But it was all good because I was fine after. I think it is easier now because we get to email every week so we don't have to catch each other up on tons of stuff. But that phone call definitely went by way too fast! But in only a few short transfers I will get to talk to you all again. I love you so much and I look forward to hearing more from you this week! Love you!

Kate