Soooo Christmas was aight. There was about 1/2 as many ward members as usual cause everyone was traveling for Christmas, but we still managed to visit a couple families and in the house me & my companion experimented making fried chicken. Oh, and skyping the fam- that was great.
I bought a few strands of lights with some personal money, so between that and the paper Christmas tree my mom sent in a package, we were set hahaha. About as Christmasy as we missionaries can afford to get.
My shoelaces are giving up on me. Just look at the pictures (attached) and maybe the condition of my shoe will give you an idea of how much we're walking. It's insane. I literally had to use yarn just to tie them until I can buy new shoelaces.
Something funny is that my companion listens to Conference Talks when Elder Uchtdorf is talking about his wife just to learn how to flirt in English hahaha. You do you, buddy. You do you.
Wednesday was the Zone Conference/Christmas Dinner at President's house. In the morning we had great lessons about the Atonement which helped us remember the importance of Christmas. The Mission President's wife made cinnamon rolls and I literally was so happy because I haven't tasted anything homemade that was that good in so long. In the afternoon we had the dinner, games with bells and Jeopardy about the scriptures and Ecuador, a gift exchange, and a talent show. For the talent show the Zone Leaders had me play David Archuleta's "Glorious" on the piano while a sister missionary sang.
Christmas Eve we went around giving Christmas-themed lessons, lots of caroling, a message of the divinity of Christ, and passed out mini candy canes (cause most people haven't tried them before cause they're more of an American thing). One of the families gave us a little food and COLADA MORADA! I told my companion my joy was complete hahaha cause it's only sold around October, and I'd been craving it. :)
Today we went to the Basilica for a District activity (that's the big Cathedral that looks like the SLC temple). It was kinda cool. There were a lot of tourists, but we still got to climb up in the tower and everything. Afterwards we had spiritual thoughts about the Apostasy and Restoration of the Gospel. It was neat.
Anyways I sure hope you all had a great Christmas and have a fantastic New Years!
Love,
Elder Stolle
P.S. I also tried this weird looking fruit that was pokey but was like a white grape inside.
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