7.6.14

Wow, 

Sounds like the funnest things ever happened this week! Spencer will be speaking Mexican just like Conner did and gets to flirt with Tyler while he's in Honduras...that’s just not fair. But that’s so sick! Did you guys take any pictures of the family? You better have... you all have I-phones and all the latest technological devices! So for the 4th of July we had the most American food that we could find!!! That’s right...tacos (; Hno. Sander is the Stake Patriarch.  He has a kid on the mission in Paraguay and makes the best tacos! We also watched the Germany game while we were eating. 

My new companion is really pampered. We have the best area, the best food, the best apartment and he has the best companion ever! jk about the last one… but he is loving the mission and thinks that I should be a Spanish teacher when I get home because I explain things so well. You guys know how Dad likes to use gross, funny things to explain stuff so that it just gets stuck in our heads...that’s what I do with him when I'm teaching him Spanish. Sometimes he can't stop laughing because of the things that I say to get him to understand. But I'm loving it so much right now! 

We had a baptism the other day. When the sister missionaries asked “A” who she wanted to baptize her, she was like, ''I want that super pretty Elder who looks like one of the vampires from Twilight because his teeth are so pointy and straight!'' I tried to warn her that I really am a vampire but she wanted me to baptize her anyway! 

We had a family home evening with a family that said that Americans can't cook or bake so I finally used those cookie mixes that you guys sent me for Christmas and baked those and they thought I was the best cookie maker ever! … until my companion revealed my secret. 

And the missionaries from San Isabel (an area in Rivera) had to sleep in our apartment because their house got infested with rats and flees. They were kicking a ball and it hit this box that they never opened or cleaned up and a swarm just attacked them and everything in the house haha. They were talking to my companion like,'' you are so lucky that your Dad (ME) got you guys this apartment. It’s the best house en the mission''

But yeah, that part of your email about the 4th of July pierced my soul! We were talking about what we were doing the last 4th of July, E' Neilson and I and I almost started crying because it was when I was in Utah during probably the funnest time of my life (with coaching those camps, being at BYU, hanging out with all of the family) I can't believe that that was a year ago! But I'm glad everything is going good.

 

Love you and miss you! 

E McRae

Ps.. E' Neilson has a blog and stuff...I hope you guys are showing family members my pics so they don't think I'm all the way dead...just MOSTLY dead!