Christmas in Paraguay!

Hey Mom!!!
So as you can see now, I get to email today! Woot woot. I get to talk to you guys tomorrow, so I really don't have that much to say haha. So we actually  had the chance to pick when we wanted to call from the 23rd to the 27th I believe but I kinda assumed that you wanted Christmas because..well..it's Christmas. And also everyone would be home. Elder Guerrero actually called his family yesterday and he used Google Hangouts and that worked super easy and well, so that's what we're gonna do. Plan on 12pm Utah time. Just have your email open and I think it'll alert you when I call. We're using a computer in our church that's super nice, so we shouldn't have any problems. We have 1 hour to talk, but yesterday Elder Guerrero went over like 10 minutes so we'll see haha. Also if you have any questions about anything, I'd recommend writing them down because otherwise you'll probably forget. I always forget to write stuff in my emails haha.
I don't really have a point to asking any questions because I-m talking to you tomorrow so I won-t ask any haha. This week has been super good. We had 1 hour church yesterday and I loved singing Christmas songs and we also brought a person we-re teaching. Her name is Graciela and she-s awesome. I think she-ll get baptized in January.
But yeah, I guess I-ll talk to you tomorrow so I don't have a ton more to say. Have a FELIZ Christmas Eve. We have a district activity in an hour and we're going to TGIFridays again so I'm excited for that. Also I know this email is SUPER early. It's like 6am there right? So sorry about that haha.
LOVE YOU! TALK TO YOU TOMORROW!




Hola everyone,
GUYS! IT'S CHRISTMAS. I know Christmas is tomorrow, but today is P Day, so it's basically Christmas ðŸ˜‚. Unfortunately I don't get to be with my family opening gifts tomorrow, but I get to talk to them! Also my mom sent me a little mini Christmas package and there's some wrapped presents in there that I'm opening tomorrow. But other than that tomorrow is just a normal mission day. A lot of people here don't live with their families and are alone so we're visiting a lot of those people tomorrow. Right now we're teaching this lady named Graciela and she actually went to church finally yesterday! She's like 55 and she lives alone and is super lonely, but we walked with her to the church yesterday for the special 'Christmas' Sacrament and she loooooved it. We're planning on giving her a baptism date on the 12th or 19th and I really think she's gonna be prepared for that day. In our mission, to be baptized you only need to go to Church 2 times and then a 3rd for your confirmation, so actually we could put a date on the 5th if we wanted, but we're not sure yet.
Other than that, this week has been mostly the same. Still hot and a bunch of people are lame and don't wanna get baptized. We visit a ton of people every day and a lot of times we ask them to guess how old we are and GUYS! It's making me sad. Everyone always thinks that I'm like 24. Am I REALLY looking that old already!!???

Also, on a more SPIRITUAL note. I just finished the Book of Mormon for the 'first' time. I've read it twice before, but I never really paid close attention or tried to understand it. I started reading it again my first day in the CCM and just now finished it today. It's freaking awesome guys. I invite all of you to read it if you haven't already, or read it again if you have.
Hope you all have a SUPER MERRY CHRISTMAS. I hope Papa Noel is very nice to all of you. HAVE A GREAT WEEK. FELIZ NAVIDAD!

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