February 3, 2014 ~ This is the month!!! The final month of Elder
Merrill’s mission! I can hardly believe
it is finally here! Funny how it seems to take forever to arrive but then when
it does, it didn’t seem so long all the time (just sometimes!). He sounds good, more relaxed now that he isn’t
penniless in a new city, whew! As always, it’s such a blessing to hear from
him! We sure love you Elder Merrill J
Heya Mom! how ya
doing? I´m good here. Really good! I won´t be too trunky but I come home
in 25 days!! I don´t know if I want people knowing when I get home or not.....I
kind of want it to be a surprise. I want to scare the pants off of James when I
get home, but I don´t know. If nobody knows when I get home, then I have to go
and tell everyone, design a party, stuff like that. I´m still not sure what I
want to do......(I will have to write him
in his letter for next week that EVERYBODY knows when he is coming home! Many
of them have been counting down with us and I already have a welcome home party
planned, so yeah…..lol)
But that´s enough of being trunky I suppose. Hmmm, this direction that I gave
you, I hope it was right. I´ve never even heard of the streets Higgins or
Lespade.(we were trying to look up his
address on Google Earth…apparently we were not close, lol) Well, at least you have the right city. I
think that I´m close to the city´s center, but I´m not sure. Things are going
good here for me. We have a lot of people to teach and it´s not nearly as hot
as it was the first week that I was here. I´m just doing what I can and
teaching everyone and all that. If I let trunky thoughts flood my brain, I´m
doomed. But it´s not that bad really. It doesn´t even feel like I´m going home
really. It just feels like another transfer. I guess it´ll hit me when I´m boarding
the plane or something like that. LOL.
Sorry about your cough, I know it can be difficult to work
when you´re not feeling 100%. It´s good that Kyle’s feeling better. I think
that´s interesting that you´re having slightly cooler days. I would´ve thought
it´d be going up slightly, now that you´re in February. That´s always a fun
experience what with the quilt and all. I hope that I get to try that out one
time before it gets too warm. Heh. It´s good that things are about the same
back home. You still have that quilt you made for me right? That was really
nice of you to make one for all of us. I want to use it when I get back I
think.
I didn´t know that Bryce was going to be in the MTC so soon! Wow....well that´s
good for him. I can´t believe that Charlie got to be his welcome host, how cool
is that! That story that Heather told? It´s true. Every word of it. Dogs are
everywhere. Streets, airport terminals, hospitals, you name it, dogs are
probably there. I suppose that Heather’s mission will be ending soon... but I
can´t remember when. (Hermana
Heather McRae is a friend of ours who is also currently serving a mission in
Argentina – in the northwest area so far away from Elder Merrill. She drew us a
picture of her area that had her little apartment and a little bakery and then
a ton of X’s all over the picture – the X’s represented dogs. I knew Elder
Merrill would laugh and understand since he has been telling us about the
hordes of dogs all over the place his entire mission.)
Yeah I still have those emergency funds. I
doubt I´ll run into any problems, but you never know. But I´ve got plenty of
cash on hand, American and Argentinian. So if anything happens, I´m not too
worried. Thanks for all the complements! I try to be wise with money and all
that, and I´ve only been in a kind of crisis once, and that was because they
couldn´t send me the money fast enough. I´m doing just fine here.
I´m glad you enjoy being a teacher. That´s funny
about the Grandparent’s day becoming Grandperson’s day. It was the Grandparents
that visited? Or was it the whole family? If it was the whole family I can see
it being somewhat crowded. Whatever the case, it was still fun I suppose. (At my school, for Grandperson’s day, family
members came to class and my class played a jeopardy game based on things we
had learned so far and then the kids and families all got to eat lunch
together, so it was a fun day for all).
Well, I don´t know if anything we did is
worth telling. It´s just the same thing. We walk and talk and we do what we can
to help everyone we see. There are some crazy things that happen every once in
a while, but aside from that, there´s just nothing new really. Things are
winding down to a close here. Everything exciting that could happen has
basically already happened. Our area is part city, part sandy desert. There are
parts that we go that are not-so-fancy and there´s a lot of sand and nothing in
those parts, but on the whole, the houses that we visit are kind of well-kept. On
the whole, it´s an area that I enjoy. Kind of big too, we don´t run out of
areas to visit during the day. I hope that the pictures that I take will serve
as good images as to how my areas look. Well, we´ll see them all soon enough I
suppose.
That´s about all for this week I guess. I
hope that you all have an awesome week back home and just know that I´m
thinking about you guys and I´ll see you guys REALLY soon! I can´t wait! But
I´m going to do my best to focus for right now. Have a good week! Love you
lots! See ya around! Bye!
-Elder Ethan Merrill
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