Anyways. So this week has been great. I can’t remember what
we did on Monday. I forgot my planner at home but I am pretty sure I was doing
change stuff all day because we got the changes here in the offices on Sunday
night so there went sleeping jaja. Monday we also sent out the Christmas bolsa
run, seems like they just get bigger and bigger. Monday night I bought all the
tickets for changes. As soon as they saw me walk up to the counter, they sent
over another person to get it done faster. I sat there with two people on two
computers blowing through buying the tickets we needed. I think it was a record
time for ticket buying really. 117 tickets in about an hour in a half. vamos
aribba Agencia Central and Turil!!
Tuesday was Christmas Eve. We all went out to work as normal
until 7 when we all met up to go Christmas caroling in our area. We spent an
hour and a half in one area and and a half in the other. It was really good. We
got some members to go with us and had a lot of fun in the financer’s area.
Then it was our turn. We went over to our area at about 845 and started walking
around caroling. At first people didn’t want to really listen but as time went
on a few more doors started opening up. The cool thing happened when we saw a
house and felt like we should go knock it and sing. we knocked it, no one
answered, then we rang the doorbell and this guy about 25 years old opens up
his garage and goes, "what’s up?" we explained to him that we were
singing to celebrate christmas and everything and he goes "well sing
then" and we started singing and as we finished we heard all these people
clapping from behind the door. His dad come out and asked us if we want a drink
and we all agreed happily because it was still about 85 outside at 9 at night.
We walked back and they were having a family bbq. They all pulled us up chairs
and started talking to us. They even fed us some of their asado! We had a good
talk with them about why we were here in Uruguay, how long were here for, etc
and then we pulled out "the living Christ" and explained that we were
here sharing a message about Christ and that He lives! We all bore our
testimonies of Him and invited them to listen to more. We are going back this
week! Another cool thing that happened was that they are good friends with
Daniel Nicora (probably spelled it wrong) who is in my ward back home! Small
world huh? we ended the night heading back to the house and having dinner with
a whole bunch of missionaries and the Binghams. We all went up on the roof at midnight to go and watch the fireworks! It was incredible. I
have never seen anything like it. The entire sky was light up with fireworks. I
think every single person in Montevideo
must have spent a good amount of money on fireworks. For a good 20 minutes the
entire sky was filled, 360 degrees around. Incredible. I cant wait till new
years!
Wednesday was Christmas!!! WWWHHHOOOOHHHOOOOOOO!! We woke up
at 6 in the morning, went to go open packages at the offices that we received
earlier, then came home and did service for about an hour and a half. After
that we went to watch a movie! fun fact! The miniones in despicable me speak
spanish when you watch it in english! Who knew right? Then after that we went
to lunch at the family Priggioni's house. We had a massive asado! it was soo
good. Then after we came back, went out to work for a little bit, and then we
got to come back and call home! Best time of the year: Christmas and Mothers
Day! It was so great talking to family and seeing them all again. It really
makes you realize how fast time is flying by though. I only have 2 more calls
left in the mission. I feel like I just started last week. Crazy!
Thursday, all the missionaries that
were going home came down to Montevideo
and we had to take all their stuff to the mission home, but the back window of
our car got blown out. jaja funny story but for another time. So we had to be
really careful packing stuff in so nothing would fly out. Then it was work as
normal for the rest of the day with a late night again. We had to drive over to
the mission home at 1230 at night to take stuff and didn’t get to bed till
2.
Friday, we worked all day and then
went to take all the missionaries to the airport to get them home! Well they
were supposed to at least. we were all speeding to the airport trying to get
them there all on time only to get there and they say "they flight was
delayed until tomorrow morning at 5" so we had a fun time on the phone
with salt lake and parents until about 1230 letting parents know that they
would be getting in later. It was pretty fun though getting to hang out with
all the elders I knew for a little longer.
Today was great. We woke up and went to go play soccer
against the other mission and after played some basketball too.
My spiritual thought this week comes from a Mormon message
that I will paste in here about the new year:
Lets all try a little bit harder to be a little bit better
this year!
I love you all so much! Have a great week and we will see
you next year!!! :)
Elder Staffieri
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