Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Email letter dated December 19, 2012 'It's Christmas Time in the City'

  December 19, 2012

Dear Family,
Christmas is coming in a hurry and I´m trying to do things to make it a good one. I´ve made sticky popcorn balls and have given them away to people, I hung up some Christmas lights and hung up the stockings that we have. We are having a branch Christmas party on Saturday and we are having a gift exchange. I pulled Leidy´s name out of the bag, she´s a 14 year old dominican girl and I really don´t know what I´m going to give her.....What do 14 year old girls like?
Samuel and Magalis (our golden family) are slipping a little. We haven´t taught them for a little while because they haven´t been home and have been busy.... They didn´t come to church on sunday....I have such high hopes for them, I just hope we haven´t lost them...
Elder Chalas and I are feeling like we are going to stay here in Cotui together for another transfer but no one really knows. Trainer calls are today and with a bazillion of new missionaries coming every transfer it is very likely that everyone could be called to train. We see what happens. Personally I hope we stay together because we get along really well and we work well together. 

Christmas without snow is different, everyone go jump in a big pile of it for me. Then take a hot shower. Both snow and hot showers don´t exist here. Which makes showering in the morning slightly painful: although there is no snow it is slightly cooler at night and in the mornings here, by no means is it cold even though every dominican will tell you that it is. But these slightly chilly mornings make freezing showers uncomfortable and a big shock to the system. Which is good for waking you up but man it´s cold...

Go serve someone and spread the true meaning of Christmas. Also say Merry Christmas to everyone you see today. 

Elder Robinson

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