This week was great, we had divisions, the christmas conference, and finally some success in our area. I guess in the US they are called "splits" but I like the word divisions better because its the word we use in portuguese. I got to be with Elder B Costa (my trainer who is now my Zone Leader) and we got to work really hard that day and after we pooled our money together and went for sushi and it was really good. Actually in Petrolina there are many sushi places compared to the other cities here. Sushi is the perfect way to end the day but its a little expensive for the average missionary so it probably won't happen again for a while.
As I said before, we had our christmas conference on thursday and it was awesome, the Lazenby's tried really hard to make christmas special for all 150ish missionaries that are a part of their family this christmas. We had a normal conference the part in the morning, lunch was amazing with cheesy alfredo, goat/chicken meat, and some other foods I can't remember with a selection of juices. We then sang songs, president wrote a parody with the 12 days of christmas in portuguese and with missionary things, it was great, I took photos and videos of most of it. I will attach a bunch because the internet is fast here in this lan house I'm using :) We did "secret friend" which is like "secret santa", I bought/gave a dashing blue tie and I got a chocolate bar with an R2-D2 plush toy with a music button that played the theme of star wars. Its pretty sick, my companions are sick of me listening to the music all the time 😅 We also got stockings from the Lazenby's with candy/snickers, popcorn, a dvd (with what I don't know), and a photo album with the christmas card form the Lazenby's and some photos of Christ, and the christmas card from the 1st presidency of the church in portuguese and my companion randomly got one in spanish and english. We then watched the Grinch as a special present from president, and had some special musical presentations (also included). During the movie, President brought our pizza for everyone. The only draw back to the conference was that it was in Feira de Santana which is about 7hrs by bus and the secretaries always put us on the 11:30pm bus which is terrible for sleep. took a few days to recover from that.
Us missionaries are going to be singing christmas songs in the church square tomorrow night (in front of where are new apartment will be) and the next day we will do the same thing but in Juazeiro the neighboring city. we haven't had the chance to practice at all but we will see how it goes.
We get to call home next monday seeing that it is christmas and its going to be great, christmas in the feild. Its cool that I got to have christmas in the MTC and in the feild and weird to think that I won't have another on the mission, the next one will be at home.
But anyway Love you all, gotta go now, but Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!
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