Howdy! (people here tell me that's how they say hi in English)
Winding down from all the festivities, we're able to work with a regular tempo again, however, holidays are always just around the corner. The next holiday is MY BIRTHDAY! which I will spend working as usual. Last year I spent my birthday with elder Taylor who took a video with his camera of me stopping in the street and listening to the children sing happy birthday to another child inside a house. I tried to imagine that they were singing to me. ...a heartbreaking moment.
The truth is that birthdays in the mission aren't so bad, the zone usually buys a cake and we all sing together in the district meeting, plus members are good about loving missionaries. Last year I ate good on my birthday.
The next holiday that people actually care about is Carnaval: three days of drinking cheep beer and sitting in kiddy pools while listening to reggaeton, blegh. Carnaval is one of the more crazy holidays, it's up there with New Year's, however some say it's crazier. It's a tricky time to work.
Here we're trying to prepare a few people to be baptised, we tracked a lot the last two weeks and we found lots of cool people. We're hoping for some salvation to happen in February.
Also, as a mission we're all getting ready for a world wide missionary broadcast from the first presidency. we don't know what it's going to be about but I get the feeling it will be something along the lines of missionary work. Whatever it is, we're looking forward to it!
Everything here is good, we're pushing on with the work every day. I hope all is well back home, I'll see you all on the other side!
Love, Cameron
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