December 14, 2014
Dear Family,
It was so great to hear all of the great things that are happening to
all of you guys right now!! It sounds
like you are all just having a great time!
I am so grateful as well for your continued support while I am out here
on the mission.
So this week was full of things happening!! On Monday and Tuesday we had the Christmas
Conferences... and it started off on the
wrong foot!! Turns out that the Area
Presidency was having some kind of banquet Monday at the same time as our
Conference in the same place with the same catering service, so we had to
change all of that stuff!! It was a
little bit hectic because we found out about all of that stuff on Saturday
night, but it was ok and we were able to get everything figured out!! We had the Conference in Azua on Monday, and
we had to drive a ton!! We made it
there, luckily, at 7 in the morning. We
then had to go back to Bani to get more tables... a half hour drive back!! We went, got all the tables loaded up, and
got the conference started!! I was doing
things the entire time, so I missed the majority of the conference!! It seems like when ever there is a conference
of some kind, all of the missionaries get sick right before coming!! I spent the entire conference running people
around to the doctor and to different farmacies...It is a little bit stressful sometimes
because I am having to pay for a lot of the stuff with my own money and then
wait for the reimbursement, but I guess it is good. It is something that I guess is just
preparing me to have a family, with kids asking all the time for money!! Any way, the food turned out great, and there
was a ton of it!! Finally, a conference
with food that was amazing!! Then we
watched all of the skits!! Those
literally had it all!! From funny jokes
to inside jokes to songs that the missionaries made up... It was great!! Then when the conference
finished, we took pictures and went home!!
The next day we had the conference in the capital. It also started off with a problem with the
tables, just because the Bishop of the building that we were at did not show
up.... So I spent the whole morning
getting tables again!! I missed the
entire morning session of the conference!!
The food was even better, and there was even a chocolate fountain!! It was really cool, but I did not eat out of
that because I KNOW how unhygienic those things can be... Especially when there are so many
people!! 150 people from different
countries dunking a marshmellow in a chocolate waterfall in two different
languages? Does NOT sound appetizing to
me!! The skits were also very funny as
well!! Lots of laughs, good acting, and
some funny lines as well!! We did (as
usual) have one awkward moment when a missionary from Mexico said the
"N" word in a rap... He
doesn't know english, so for him it was normal, but it definately caught the
president of guard!! Any way, then we
finished up all of that and went home!!
On Friday, we had the big activity at the President's house for the
netire capital!! It was a great
success!! The choir from our ward and
from Las Caobas sang, and it was amazing!!
They sang really well! We also
had two sister missionaries sing, and they stole the show!! It was seriously like listening to snow white
sing!! I was honestly just waiting for
all of the little lizards and rats and cockroaches to come out, hypnotized, to
do their bidding!! It was great, and
there was a turn out of about 300 people, so it was great!! Really had a great time!!
Saturday was the day that we finished up the transfers. It is a very good thing that I made up the
formats for all of the things, so all we had to do was fill in the blanks with
the names!! We got it all set up, and
then went and celebrated in CHILI's!! It
was fun, I got a soup and salad with a frozen strawberry lemonade!! Then we took some sisters to San Cristobal to
sing in a baptismal service, then went back to our ward party!!
Today was Paulino's last Sunday, so he spoke!! We had a great Sunday, and I have had a huge
change about how I feel about Sunday!!
It legitimately is a day that I look forward to!!
Well, that is what has been going on!!
Also, I am very glad that you got my Christmas Package!! Hopefully it made in there in one piece,
because it is very fragile!!
So for Christmas... We will be
Skyping in the afternoon. Not sure at
what time yet, but we will be in contact.
As the assistants we always have to be on our personal emails and the
assistant;s email just to make sure that nothing get's sent to us that we don't
know about!! So, I will let you
know!! All that I know is that the 25th
is an all day PDAY, as well as the 31st.
The PDAY for those two weeks will be changed to those days!!
I love you all so much!! Have a
great week!!
Love,
Elder Garrett McEwan :)
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