How fun to get a birthday wish from Elder Merrill. His is coming up soon as well. Pretty exciting to spend your 21st birthday on a mission in Argentina! Here is his great weekly letter home:
Heya! Happy (late) Birthday Mom!! (I don’t think being one day off when you are serving a mission in a
foreign land and can only email once a week counts as being late! We can cut
him some slack this year, lol)
So, I swear I remembered your birthday, had it marked in my calendar and
everything. I just wanted to wait until today to say it, and not last week, 7
days early. How was it? Did you do anything fun? Get anything you wanted? I
hope that you had a party or something! How cool that you were sealed on your
birthday. I bought you a gift and all, but you´ll have to wait until February
to receive it. LOL.
Huh, yeah send me a picture of the new car when you get the
chance. Like I say, with all the stuff that you all have to do, it´s probably
important to have a car. And if it moves, that´s the main point. (And maybe have
air conditioning too.)
Do you think that the house will be finished this week? If you
start moving all the furniture back, that´s when you start looking for the
birthday box right? Well, I´m not fussed when I get it, with 4.5 months
left....oh... I don´t know. I´m just more excited to see you guys than seeing a
package.
I´ve never ´´trained´´ but I´m fine with that, I don´t think that
I´d do such a bang up job. I feel like
I´m going crazy just working with a normal companion, showing a rookie the
ropes, I don´t know if I could do that. Well, we´ll see what happens with these
last 3 transfers.
Yep. We went to see the sea lions, they´re bigger than me....but
not massive. They sound like they´re belching when they make noises. And all
they do the majority of the day is sleep on the beach. Apparently, they can run
fast and can get antagonized if you get a little too close, so there´s a sign
saying that it´s prohibited getting close to them. I don´t know if anyone was
ever killed by a sea lion, but I don´t want to find out. Or lose an arm. (Using the force wisely young padawan…)
Wooooow....conference is this week. I´m so excited! This marks
the last conference that I´ll have in the mission, but that´s fine, there´ll
always be another one at home. I´m glad that I have the opportunity to spread
the gospel with everyone, and that we have prophets and apostles to guide us!
We have Halloween here in Argentina, but I´m not sure how
popular it is. It´s where kids go around and get candy and stuff, but people
don´t make a big deal out of it like they do in the states. What a shame that
I´ll never be able to do that again. Let me know how the party in your school
goes. I think it´ll be funny to think about adult sized minions. They´re really
short in the movie. You´d be perfect for that costume though. (juuust kidding.)
(uh-huh…..)
Hey, thanks for sending me the letter and thanks for
making plans to send the smaller package! I really can wait, I don´t mind, you
don´t need to spend more money. I´d say send it if you can´t find my birthday
box, but....it´s all up to you. I can´t believe that I´m 21 in 11 days! I
promise to work hard and that I´ll do my best to preach the gospel! I love you
lots and have a good time at general conference! I hope that you all have a
great week and know that I´m always praying for you and thinking about you
guys! Love you! Bye!
-Elder Ethan Merrill
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