Thanks for the message! Tell Daron thanks! The food is always the same. Yes i got the package, thanks for the super awesome chicken, I'm pretty sure my district has fallen in love with how annoying it is! HAHA but the pajama pants were nice to get since i forgot lounge pants, and the jerky was gone in 1 day. The Mtc Continues to treat me well, and dad you were right when you said they load the food full of stuff to keep you plumbed right! Anyway Christmas was Awesome! We had a Christmas eve devotional with the MTC presidents, they are leaving in 1 1/2 weeks, and we're getting new ones. Christmas day and for Sunday as well we had Elder Russel M. Nelson here He gave speeches on lots of deep doctrine concerning the names and origins of words and significance of others in the Christmas story on Saturday and the Abrahamic covenant, in priesthood on Sunday. Christmas day we also had a play from the Christmas carol. the classical Scrouge story, Elder Nelson stayed with us for that too. He was only on assignment for the first devotional and decided to stay with us for a while of his own accord. The work continues to get harder although the time seems to fly by at an attroctiously slow rate, The days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days. My companion and i spent a day in a trio with an elder that moved into our district from a beginner district, he was too good for them. he's from salt lake, but we were happy when another elder was transferred into our district immediately afterwards so we have 2 new elders. The trio elder is also going to the monterrey east mission. so that will be cool. I seem to have become something of a big brother to lots of the elders here, they come to me for advice and with many different questions. Its interesting though. Also my companion and I are the companionship in the district all the 'cool' missionaries hate. we keep all the rules, no matter how stupid they are and we spend lots of time doing what we're supposed to so we met almost all our goals this week, we taught a lesson a day, memorized 4/5 scriptures, spoke less than our allotted amount of English, and we had 1 TRC appointment when we were signed up for a grand total of 0. and we also did 5/5 pmg companionship activities, this is all in Spanish btw, We've memorized Santiago 1:5, Efe 1:10, Amos 3:7, 1 Nefi 3:7 and we started on 1 Nefi 31:5 but didn't finish it. we also memorized our purpose (found on page one of pmg) and this week we are working on section 4 in the D&C and also the first vision. My companion and I taught a couple different sets of missionaries from different districts, and a couple of teachers playing as investigators in the trc. (Teacher Referral Center) its where we go to get feed back on our lessons, in form or another, we got compliments on out organization and planning for the lessons each time, however we haven't spend 1 second organizing or planning any of our lecciones. We are speaking only Spanish now except for P-day, Sunday, Gym time and after 9:45 at night. We stay super busy here, you have no free time, and if you do you're doing something wrong. Cause you can always study the language or read the scriptures sometimes both. I'm loving it here. the Mexican consolate has taken a vacation until mid-January, so chances of getting my visa on time are not good. but they also aren't being as stingy as they have been in the past, anyway my laundry needs to be moved and i am almost out of time! Give My Love to the Family.
Sincerely,
Elder Allen
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Also i need you to send me : the v neck sweater dillon borrowed, my priesthood line of authority, the newest family photo (5X7 and wallet sized), and one of my mission pictures (wallet size) and anything else you want to throw in :) btw tell dillon to expect a package!!
