Christmas? The 3 kings are right around the corner!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 5:32 PM

> Sorry about the delay, we made a
> temple trip today. That is really no excuse, seeing as we
> now live only about 30 minutes away. The real hold up was
> because we finally found a new piso so we have our pday
> back. After the temple we met up with a bunch of
> missionaries in the stake center (it was raining) and played
> some tournament soccer in the gym. While our team was
> sitting out we played settlers of catan. A very successful
> pday. I think my favorite comment from the day was when
> everything was coming to a close and we were hiting the
> climax of our catan, so as you can imagine, everything was
> really intense. Well, one of the missionaries was looking
> around kind of lost-like and when he saw me he said, "oh I
> though Elder Carr had left already, it was really quiet." I
> dont know what he was talking about.
>
> The temple was super fun. I cant wait for you all to get to
> go through. The subway broke down so we had to make some
> detours and ended up missing our session (all the
> missionaries usually go to the same session). No problem, we
> just jumped in the next one. The session was in spanish, we
> prayed in portuguese, and the temple workers were speaking
> french. Portuguese makes me laugh.
>
> As for your question about the accent, i am still very much
> not lispy. It kind of throws people off too. I try to speak
> with no accent. Just clearly. People always try to figure it
> out and it drives them wild. They say i look spaniard, speak
> spanish well enough, but just dont sound like i look like i
> should sound. Foreigners think i am Spaniard. Hmm long
> answer for a short question.
>
> Thank you for writing Gina, she will love it.
>
> So the Lord punished our ward last week. I have no time to
> expound on it, but the chicken that was served was bad.
> Nothing horrible though, just flood breaks down south. I was
> the only missionary who got it. Church was hilarious the day after.
> People tried to show faith and come to chruch but everyone
> just ended up hanging out outside the bathroom and chatting,
> taking turns using the services. It was so much fun because
> everybody was shameless because they knew eveybody had the
> same problem. Very good times.
>
> The talent show yesterday was a blast. I tried to hold
> back, but think it didnt work too well. The assistants
> beforehand were telling us what was going down and told us
> that even though we could have fun we had to remember we are
> representatives of Jesus Christ. I am not sure why, but the
> entire time he was looking right at me. I wrote a song the
> night before to the tunes of Hero, by Enrique Iglesias, In
> the Jungle, from Lion King, and Kiss the Girl, from The
> Little Mermaid. Little excerpts from each one about
> missionary work. It turned out pretty good considering our
> first rehearsal was when we were performing it. And even
> better, there were a few missionaries that didnt have
> talents or get invited to do anything with anyone else so i
> took them on board and made them do various things during
> the song. They had a good time and it limited my performance
> options to just singing, which the assistants were grateful
> for. They recorded a video and said they would get it to us
> so i will se what i can do.
>
> Well, i am out of time. Sorry for the rush every week,
> things are nuts.
>
> Talk to you soon,
>
> Elder Sky
>
> M83