Mason's Mission: Un misionero con sueño

Day: 2 weeks till Christmas

Pushup Count: 190

Buenos días a todos! This week has been one of many siestas because I've been so tired. But still super good :)

- We went to record and shoot our Spanish music video and let me tell ya that was exhausting. I ended up not having time to record the guitar before the singers got there, so they had to sing over my (very) rough draft recording. Once we finally got done with that, it was too late to film, so we had to reschedule that. At this point I'm just praying these videos come out before new years....

- We took the sacrament to a center for neural development that the other Elders cover and it was super touching

- I bought way to much pan dulce at vallarta

and then ate it all and regretted it so much that I wasn't even able to eat dinner that night

- The Elders in my quad drank all my orange juice

- I finally made quinoa

- I got to go to mlc (mission leadership conference), which is where all the zone leaders, aps, and president meet and talk about the mission. Except it turned out to basically just be another zone conference so it felt very pointless and (guess what ) I was nodding off by halfway through

- We finally had an in person lesson with one of our Facebook finds... it was kinda a weird lesson but we'll see what happens

- A family in the ward threw Elder Ireland a birthday party and invited the other Elders in my quad (who don't speak Spanish). They made us super good food and gave us a bunch of stuff to take home

- People keep giving us fruit

- We had another baptism! And guess who had to play the piano again! And now the ward chorister knows that I can play so I might be in trouble... But super good baptism, the other companionships in our ward both had a friend get baptized so

- We had the ward Christmas party and it was amazing. Everyone was at least a half hour late, the food was great, we got to listen to real Christmas music, and there was dancing at the end

So yes, lots of good things happening, just fighting to stay awake during them all. Thanks to everyone who has sent emails and Christmas packages, y'all are awesome! It doesn't really feel like Christmas here, which is probably a good thing, but I'm excited nonetheless. I hope all of you are excited too!

Spiritual Thought:

I shared a quote from Elder Holland's talk "None Were With Him" on Facebook yesterday about how Christ walked alone so that we don't have to. I'd invite y'all to read the talk, it's crazy poderoso. Actually, listen to it, cause Elder Holland's voice makes it so much more powerful.

Mucho amor,

Élder Page

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