Elder Lindquist 12/24

So it's Christmas Eve today. I hope all is well with you today and tomorrow and I hope you all have a great Christmas holiday. Christmas is my favorite holiday but it's a lot different here. The Christmas trees are only like three or four feet tall and there's no lights on the buildings because they're just big apartment buildings so how can you decorate one of those? Of course there is no snow but that was expected. Today we have a lunch and dinner appt. and tomorrow we have lunch with the president of our Branch but other than that we don't have too much going on; which is kind of sad but oh well. We had an excellent zone/Christmas conference this last week. There were a couple zones there so I got to see and visit my MTC district. Not too much has happened this week. We have a new investigator which is a friend of our Branch President’s son. He's eleven and they're pretty good buddies so hopefully we can get all the lessons taught here pretty soon, he seemed to like the first one. Elder Rissi says he thinks he's getting transferred next week, (this transfer is a week shorter and the next one will be a week longer.) so I might be getting a new companion next week. Elder Rissi has already been here for five months or so. This last week we had a lot of encounters with drunken people for some reason. The other night we were walking home and a bunch of them yelled our name so we went to talk to them for a second. They were trying to get us to drink their beer and coffee and smoke their cigarettes. Elder Rissi started messing with them and they started freaking out! We got two or three presents from branch members! So we're pretty much loaded. Just think of us as you're opening your piles and heaps of presents. Actually no think of Our Savior Jesus Christ instead. Oh I just remembered the gas ran out in our apartment a couple days ago and the guy was supposed to bring it yesterday but he didn't and he still hasn't come today. We've been taking freezing cold showers for like a week. I can't wait to start Christmas day tomorrow morning with an ice cold shower. Feliz Natal!De Elder Lindquist