Se Me Fueron Las Chivas Al Monte

December 20, 2010


Howdy fam...

Well this week was rather good, we now have five investigators with baptismal dates, last week we had one, but in this last week we've been lucky and have had all of this success. Three of them will be baptized on the 1st and the others later in January.

So let's see... Any amusing stories? Okay I thought of one. So Friday was the ward Christmas party, in which I participated far more that I wanted to. Firstly the week before the elder's quorum president had asked us if we (the missionaries) could perform a musical number. Of the six of us in the ward three are gifted with musical talents, and as y'all are aware I'm not one of those 3. What we ended up doing was singing 'Silent Night' my companion on the violin, another on the piano, and the rest of us singing. It went rather well, even if it hadn't sounded good it would have been fine, hispanics, as a people, can't sing nor do they know what good singing sounds like. That wasn't so bad, the part that was bad is that a few days before it, we were leaving the gate when the mom of the member family that lives with us, caught us going out and asked if we could held them with the Christmas party, we said yes, we'd be happy to help. She then said that they needed an angel for their little nativity play, she pointed at me and said: "Tu eres el mas alto y el mas güero." Meaning that I was the tallest and most white person of the six of us, and that she wanted me to be the Angel in the play. Now I'm neither the tallest nor the most white of our district, (the funny part being that the whitest elder of us all is named Elder white, and the tallest is an asian named Elder Whittle). But I agreed so for the Christmas nativity thing I was the angel. I didn't have to say anything, the whole thing was narrated so I stood there and motioned around as if I was talking and gesturing. I wore a white reflective gown with wings a Halo and eveything, the whole nine yards. So that wasn't too fun but oh well. We had a great turn out though, almost all of our investigators made it to the party and they all enjoyed it.

I think that's about all that happened this week. All interesting or that I can think of, and I'm going to talk to y'all on saturday. I will probably call that night, this year they're a little bit more lax about calling schedules so we can call anytime we want. I'll probably call like 7 or 8 at night. Meaning 8 or 9 for you all. Well I'm done, I'd like to thank everyone for all the cool stuff they've sent. So yeah, I love you all, have a good day and peace out.

-- Elder Rice