Aaron

Hey everyone!  Hope you all are doing well and have a wonderful Christmas!  Puno is finally starting to look a lot more like christmas (although there is no snow...)!  

Well this week we sent of my old companion and I got my new companion, Elder Girón from Hounduras.  He is an awesome missionary although he has very little time.  I was able to show him a little bit of the sector and introduce him to some members.  He got to Puno Wednesday in the afternoon so we had very little time to work this week.

This Friday we had our Christmas dinner with our mission president and his wife.  It was really good!  We watched a movie called ´´Freetown´´.  It was really good about missionaries in Liberia that had to survive through a civil war.  After that we ate the typical chicken and rice!  Then we did a white elephant type thing.  I ended up with my own!  So I traded with another Elder in my district that also had his own!  What luck!  Aferward we were able to listen to testimonies of several apostles and prophets.  It was a really spiritually uplifting dinner.

For the rest of the week, we have been contacting a lot of people that we had contacted the past week.  Hardly anyone was there or had time, but we do have return appointments!  It also looks like we will be able to have several baptisms in January which will be awesome!

This past Saturday we sang in the Plaza for a little bit until a catholic band just drownded us out with all their instruments.  This week we will also be singing so that´s pretty cool!

On Thursday we went to a pizza place (which has the best pizza and owned by members) and we ended up talking to 3 Europeans.  It was pretty cool but I didn´t know how to talk English with them!  I don´t know why, but with missionaries I can talk with them easily, but with tourists and others, I don´t know what to say!  But there was one from Holland, Switzerland, and  Belgium.  They all spoke English really well!

Well that´s about it for this week!  Have a very merry Christmas and remember why we celebrate this time of year!  He is the gift that keeps on giving.  Love you all and thanks for all the support!