December 23, 2013 ~ WOOHOO!!! Just like Elder Merrill, we are getting so excited about his upcoming phone call home on Christmas Day. Even better, he will be able to do a video call with Skype, so we can see him too! What a great blessing this use of technology will be to our family and our faithful missionary!! Hurry Up Christmas!
It’s almost Christmas! I can hardly wait!
It´ll be pretty fun to talk to you all again. I hope that everyone has a fun
time getting prepared and everything. I´ll give you the what´s-what on how I´ll
talk to you.
I´m going to try to call at about 11:00 your time, 3:00 my
time. There´s a 4 hour difference between Arizona and Argentina. I´ll be
calling Christmas day, so we´ll get to have a nice chat in 2 DAYS!!! It feels
like just a short time ago that I called home for Mother’s Day. Now here I am
again. Calling for Christmas and then heading home in 2 months.
Yeah, the Christmas conference was fun. The funny thing was, there was
something wrong with the food and some of the elders got sick. We think it was
the warm mayonnaise. I was fine though. Sorry, the box hasn´t arrived
yet, but we got a letter saying that the people in the mail room here in
Argentina are holding some packages because there´re some things they don´t
allow into the country; like beef jerky and peanut butter. We´ll see what
happens.
I bet the Tubac fieldtrip thing was fun. I like the fact that all the kids
wanted to sit in the corner with the dunce cap. I may have done the same. LOL.
I wonder if the thought crossed their mind of having to do that every day. One
time would be fun, but everyday living under those conditions would be kind of
tiresome.
Sparky could have cancer? I hope she lives long enough until I get back. No
doubt you´ve thought of this, but maybe it´s depression about another different
cat in the house? Who knows? Well, at least we´ll have Hobbes still for sure
when I get back.
It´s HOT here. I´m more used to it now, but it is crazy hot here some days. I
get to go home in the end of summer, so I get to suffer all summer long and
then go home when the heat starts to go away. But don´t worry, I´m laughing as
I´m writing this, so I have a good attitude about it.
We´re
going to travel around center (or downtown I think it´d be. It´s the center of
the city) today. I´m going to look for gifts and what not, but for a tourist
city, there´s not much to get. Just clothes basically. But there´s usually one
or two items of interest. We´ll see what happens.
Hey, sorry this is short, but we´ll have lots of time to talk this Wednesday
for Christmas!! I can´t wait to see you all again and share some time together!
Like I say, I´m going to try to call at about 11:00 your
time, 3:00 my time. I don´t think there should be any problems, but
you never know when unforeseen circumstances could get in the way. But I think
we´ll be fine. I love you all and I´ll see you guys in 2 days’ time! I´m so
excited! Love you lots! Bye!
-Elder Ethan Merrill
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