I am the Godfather

 

HOLA AMIGOS!  I hope you all had a great week!

Ok so about the title of the email, our friend Osiris is getting baptized next Sunday!  I am so excited!  So yesterday we asked her who she wanted to baptize her and she thought for a bit and then started crying and gave me a hug and said, "I want you to be my godfather."  I didn't have the heart to tell her right then that we don't have godfathers in the church so 

Something funny I realized this week is that my brain can't talk to people in English if it's in the street.  I can talk to missionaries in English or my family but if it's random people in the street my brain is in Spanish mode.  For example, last week we went to Mitla to play sports with some other Elders and Mitla is really touristy.  I started talking with some tourists on the bus and the three guys were from Germany, France, and Switzerland.  We got off the bus and a Mexican guy starts talking to us in English about prices for a car ride to this touristy area.  The European tourists didn't speak Spanish very well but they spoke English.  I was talking to them in Spanish and they couldn't understand me so they were like, "Can you speak English please?"  ANYWAY it was pretty funny because it was a Mexican, American, French, Swiss, and German and none of us were speaking our Native languages hahaha.  The same thing happened later in the week when I hoped in a taxi with two Koreans hahaha it's so much fun!!!

We also had our mission Christmas party this week!  It was so much fun to see friends and learn more about how to be better missionaries as well!  We had a talent show and my district did a skit about all the reasons our appointments fall through hahaha.  Also we all received packages from our families and it was  so amazing!  Thanks mom!

I'm so grateful for this Christmas season!  It is truly such a blessing to remember the birth of our Lord and Savior.  I am so grateful for the opportunity to share with people that his Atonement can change their lives and carry them through their trials.  It is such an amazing experience and I love it!