6.30.14

Yeah, so the World Cup seems to be the only thing that people care about. Our ward mission leader is a high school teacher and so is our Elders quorum leader and they were basically the only teachers that went to work this week. They said that they had to take care of 7 classes each day, all day, because the professors just didn't show up because of the games. During a Brazil game, or a Uruguay game, you couldn't find a single person in the street. Then when we beat Italy, the entire country was crazy! My companion got a couple videos that you probably won’t ever be able to see, but it is insane. We walked around in our Uruguay capes all that day. Luis Suarez is an idiot and I want to punch him in the face for being so stupid. People tried to tell us that the FIFA is just racist, that the Italian player bit himself and framed him and that it is completely unjust what they did to Suarez. We saw the bite and I still don't understand why he does that...THE US MADE IT OUT OF THE GROUP OF DEATH THOUGH! Does Belgium even play well? So I'm pretty sure that a missionary did something stupid because we weren't allowed to watch the game against Colombia. We, instead, had to sulk in our apt. and study till the game was over. 

The work has been going really well. Winter break is here so we're going to take advantage and do a bunch of visits and activities with the youth. My companion is going to have his first baptism this Saturday. My throat has been hurting from talking so much to people. We try not to ever shut up in the streets. I'm still always super tired. E' Neilson is learning Spanish little by little. Our bishop went with us to a lesson we had with an investigator, and it turned out that this woman we're teaching and he dated for 4 years when they were in high school. The work is going well and this week we're going to have a bunch of success… if it doesn't rain too much. 

E' Neilson enjoys asking questions about how BYU was and stuff like that so I've been talking a lot about Utah and BYU and all of that and just forgot how incredible it was. I miss Utah so much. Especially my uncles, cousins, school and sports. I've tried to tell him to not talk about all of that stuff because it just makes me remember babysitting Lilly and Isaac, hanging out with all of the family and just everything. He murders me. 

But things are going really well. My companion got an email from his girlfriend asking, ''is the fourth of July a holiday down there?'' I told him he must end things right now with her. But it reminded me that Conner's birthday is coming up. I'm going to get him something sick! 

We had service this week too... just made a ghetto roof. 

Love you all!!

Elder McRae