Mason's Mission: Un misionero haciendo tamales

Day: new year's eve eve

Pushup Count: 211

Que show, como estamos mi gente? I'm not sure how this email is going to go because I slacked off last week because of Christmas, but I'll try to hit all the important stuff. Cool things from the last little bit:

- Saw Hermana Carlos from my old area twice at Walmart

- I tried eel and ate more ramen

- I went on 5 exchanges in the seven days

- An old man showed us a crazy card trick

- Elder Archibald and I spoke a ton of Spanish on our exchange and he ate a hot chocolate bomb for the dollar. Someone also said he looked like Captain America and that if he went to Mexico all the girls would want him

- We went caroling to two houses with the ward

- We assigned new SIM cards to the whole mission so now we just have to pass them out

- We visited the De Leon's house on Christmas eve and I got to talk to one of my favorite families from Buena Vista. It's crazy to think I was there a year ago

- Hermana De Leon made us guatemalan tamales...

- We took cookies to about a million people

- I successfully made tamales! And they were sooo good I'm definitely making more on new years

- We had Christmas dinner with Elder and Sister Higgs which was a blast as always

- We had MLC in Tehachapi and it ended on time for the first time literally ever

- We cleaned the house really good for our inspection and then they didn't even end up coming inside jaja

- Some senior missionaries made these little chocolate mice and Elder Mitchell left one outside of our office... I got him back tho (see fotos)

Sorry I feel like I should have more, but it's been a pretty average couple of weeks. The work has been really slow, only one nonmember lesson in the last two weeks, but we're working a lot with members and doing our best. We have faith that God will give us someone who's prepared :)

Spiritual Thought:

In church our Elders Quorum president talked about how the gospel of Jesus Christ is like a prescription and it must be taken as prescribed. For example, if you don't have faith you'll just be going through the motions, or if you don't repent you'll never change, etc. Each part of the doctrine of Christ is crucial, so I invite you to look at one point where you may not be as strong and work on improving that so that the prescription can function properly.

Mucho amor,

Élder Page

Fotos!