Merry Christmas o como decimos aquí en la tierra de España, ¡Feliz Navidad! I already elaborated my thoughts and feelings about Christmas last week and so I won´t bore you more this week on the subject. But it sufficeth me to say that I love Christmas and am grateful for the strong seasonal traditions that we have as a family and the wonderful memories that we have had together in the past.
This last week we have had a lot of rainy weather, not huge rain storms but a few drops and a lot of gray clouds. I am not a big fan of the rain as a missionary because it isn´t very fun being in the Street and getting drenched. Luckily, we haven´t been outside just contacting very much.
Things are going really well here. We are still on for this Saturday for Fernando and Kati and that is our biggest excitement for the moment. You will also be happy to know that we are going to be in good hands for la noche buena (Christmas Eve) y la Navidad (Christmas Day). I am a little worried because we are going to be eating a lot, and that is one of the things that I actually don´t like about the mission. When you have already eaten and then someone prepares you another meal and you can´t say no, and you feel obligated to eat it. I hate that feeling and that situation. So I think that we have 2 meals on Friday and 2 or 3 on Saturday, and I am going to do my best to spread out the times so that I can enjoy what we are eating rather than just concentrating on not throwing up.
We are also thinking about going up to the mission home Friday night and eating a turkey dinner there and then spending the night there. That should be fun, as we would go with the Elders that live with us and the office Elders and the missionary that lives with them. Oh yeah, there is an American couple that lives in our Ward and they are have invited us over Saturday afternoon. The wife of the family actually grew up in Driggs, Idaho and lived in the original Driggs home before they tore it down. So that´s a really cool fact.
Well, I am sure you would like to know how Christmas is here in Spain. Spain doesn´t really have very many Christmas traditions. Actually for Spaniards Christmas isn´t that special, because their main holiday is the 3 or 4 or 5th of January where they celebrate the Magos Reyes or the wise men. This is when the Spanish people normally receive presents. However, because of the high population of South Americans here there is a lot of Christmas hype.
Today for preparation day we went to the distribution center and I bought a hymnal because I have promised a recent convert in Barrio 5 that I would give my current one to her. So I bought another one for me.
I do not know if I told you this last time but I found out that someone else got baptized in Aranjuez. The Little brother of Michael Alvarez that got baptized in April of last year. The Little brother must have finally received permission from his mom to get baptized and I Heard that his parents are also thinking about doing the same. I never really knew the dad but the mother was really nice, but doubtful or fearful about learning more about the gospel. Now that she has had 2 good examples of her sons, maybe she and her husband can have the courage to do the same.
I am glad to hear that everything is going well with everyone. I am really excited to hear from everyone, especially Cami, Mark, and Cari, because I don´t hear too much from them.
Rob in his Christmas Sweater - He just can't be left out of the Ugly Sweater Party!
Well, I am out of time. Have a good rest of the week and we will talk more Saturday.
I love you soo much and have fun preparing for Christmas!
I love you,
Elder Driggs
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