Send some pictures!!!! At least send me pictures over email so i can show these people that i really so have a family...some of them won’t listen to me unless i show them pictures of my family.
I love being here in Artigas! Cerro was awesome for the people, but here is just soooo much better. The people speak Portuguese sometimes but they all pretty much worship me...as opposed to in Cerro “it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me” (Elf). We had a conference with our stake president here and it was awesome! There are a bunch of North Americans here who are training and still don't understand a word people are saying, so the stake Pres. made me sit next to two new missionaries (one is in the group before me) to translate what he was saying. I remembered being in that state of complete confusion and not understanding anything...it’s incredible how much i understand now just naturally (like not having to concentrate & translate in my mind)
We had an experience with a little girl named Victoria (9).Her year was just awful in her eyes because...basically so that you can understand, she got a B plus in school in one of her classes instead of an A and also her uncle was in an accident with his motorcycle and was in the hospital.(He's fine now) but for this little girl it was an awful and difficult year, so we gave her a blessing of comfort and the next Sunday she bore her testimony in church (balling the entire time) about the missionaries and how much she loves them and for helping her find happiness again. The people here don't have too many problems but they still know when they don't have the spirit in their lives and so they will look to the missionaries to bring that spirit back. They don’t understand that they can invite the spirit back into their own lives.
What do i do with this camera memory thing? I really would like some pictures...even if they're the old ones from a couple years ago, just send them to me, please (electronically so i can use them next week).
Not much has changed...my Companion E' Mar is hilarious and awesome. He’s from Mexico so my Spanish is getting better again. That’s about all that’s going on. They don't feed us here because I’m in a branch of 40 some people...so we actually have to buy food and cook...which sucks.
E' McRae
Pictures: we baptized Jorge on my birthday… we watched the fireworks for Christmas… we babysat these two rodents while her mom did baptisms for the dead for the first time in the temple… and we baptized her dad… and Paige is now serving her mission in IndianaJ
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