12.22.14

Hey hey,

So Christmas kind of snuck up on me... I forgot that I'll be talking to you in three days. I'll probably be on at 4:30 my time. I'll be using my skype account cmcrae6. The packages still haven't gotten here, but we know they may never show up. 

So we went to the temple again but this time we went with the zone! It was so amazing!!! We talked the whole time on the bus down, and had huge bonding moments. President Smith was there waiting for us and started off by talking to us about Love Sacrifice and Obedience. Hermana Smith told a story about the stupid cow who always wanted to eat wheat. Remind me to talk to you guys about how that all went. We then talked to the zone about what they needed and everyone loved it. The assistants spoke about finding people to teach at all time while President interviewed some people. We went to the temple and everyone did the work for their ancestors (besides me and two other missionaries because we couldn't get our names to work, but luckily E' Hartvigsen brought a lot of names to the temple so I did the work for him.). We did baptisms. I baptized E' Rampton and he baptized me. Then the next day we did the anointing and endowment. President baptized all the sister missionaries. He said that he is probably the only mission president that has been able to see all of his missionaries do temple work. It was amazing! My interview went super well. Remind me to tell you about it. 

We had a little party in the mission house and we were able to sing Christmas songs of our choice while President and Hermana Smith passed out presents. So one by one people started singing, “…oh come all ye faithful, oh holy night, silent night…” Basically, if you started a song, everyone joined in. I changed things up a bit and started singing, Feliz Navidad in my Mexican Accent and Hermana Smith couldn't stop laughing along with half of the zone. She said that she loved seeing another side of me and it made her love me more. I also killed everyone in ping pong (things got serious). On the bus ride back, we told stories and made it the best temple trip ever. I love this Zone and have loved this change so far. E' Rampton said that President told him that we're most likely staying together for another change!

We had our Charla Fogonera yesterday. Nobody went to it and nobody went to church either. The Uruguayan nation is not into church during the holidays.  It's like trying to get people to think of Christ during the 4th of July. I'd love to tell you more but I figure I'll just save some stuff for Thursday. 

Here's a list of a few things that you guys can remind me about: My interview, feedback for you guys, finding my eternal companion (Pte has talked about that so much to us lately), and the new covenant that I made with God.

Today we were able to watch 2 movies and I'm pretty sure we picked the best ones to watch...FROZEN and How to Train Your Dragon 2! Frozen was amazing!  We couldn't stop laughing through the entire movie and I loved the music!! It was kind of fast and weird but whatever... I guess I haven't seen a movie in so long. I loved it!! 

I hope that you guys are making lists too! Last time I had a good time talking to everyone for 5 minutes then to mom for the other 40 but I'd like to be able to make the most out of the time I have with you guys. Thanks for everything! I hope your Christmas is amazing. It doesn't feel like Christmas at all... and I'm not going to be a teenager soon. Love you all!