Week #5

Dear Family!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope this email finds you all happy and excited for all your new presents! Thank you for your thoughts! It meant the world to me! I wish i was there but guess what!  I am only missing one more Christmas!

I love the pictures so thank you so much for sending them to me! I wish i could print them!

Mom thank you for your sweet words! I am grateful to be out here serving but today i am especially homesick! So thank you so much for comforting me. I hope that i can become the best man i can while i am out here! Tell Jeff thank you also for his compliments.

So Christmas time in the MTC isnt really as much as they make it out to be! Its alright but just think of a bunch of really homesick missionaries haha. I think i finally figured out why I am Elder McClellands companion! He has really thin patience with people. Me and him are super chill! but sometimes he gets really mad at somethings! Me and him get along really well but i think im his companion because I have the patience to help him get over his temper. you know? I love him like a brother but i try my hardest to help him out! For example he really hates christmas. He is the biggest grinch i have ever met haha. Everyone hates having him around because he just bad talks christmas all the time! I just deal with it and I try my hardest to make him happy! SO theres a little MTC drama for you haha :)

Yesterday we had normal classes until 4:30 and then we had physical activity time until dinner so it was fun we played handball and basketball for like three hours so it was really nice. After we had this interesting cherry chicken stuff? they were trying to be fancy with the cooking but it didnt really work out haha :) So then we had a devotional where people from different countries told about different traditions they had with their family and stuff. It was really cool! But it was all in spanish...and they all had different dialects so it was really hard to understand them but i enjoyed it haha :) That was really all we did yesterday. But today we get to email! And we have like 3 devotionals from salt lake so that will be fun!

Saturday we went proteslyting in a new area and it was another really good time for Elder McClelland and I :) We got to teach these Atheist women and they actually really seemed interested. I dont know if they were interested in the Gospel or if they were Interested in how bad my spanish is! haha either way we talked for a long time! After that it was really dry...nobody wanted to talkt to us! Everyone was just chilling in their pool(so jealous) and waving us off. Towards the end I saw this kid wearing a Lakers jersey(kobe bryant) so i decided to ask him about it. Well our conversation went all over the place from food in the usa to movies. Finally I brought up the gospel and gave him a pamphlet. He seemed somewhat interested so i asked him if i could come back next weeek to teach him and he said yet! So That is my first appointment! Im so excited! Ive been preparing all week just for him so come saturday i will be ready i hope :)

I should be heading out to Paraguay on Monday! Thats the plan but with the holiday its kinda iffy right now. But im excited to go! Ive heard so much about paraguay! Turns out I am going to have to buy a Machete! SO sick! :) Now some bad news...This could be the last time i email for a little while. I know we arent emailing tomorrow for p day :( but we might email real quick on monday before we leave. But after that i have no clue. So just a heads up!

I got your letters! Thank you so much! I sent one last week back to you guys! This week i will reply to your individual letters! Our time is a little shortened today because everyone is emailing! Thank you for the time and thought in the letters! But i replied to them in the handwritten one. should be there soon!

I love and miss you guys very much. Especially this time of the year! It doenst feel like christmas without you guys! But i just want to let you know that im grateful for your prayers and support. I love you and i hope you have a very merry Christmas!

Love,

Elder Milton