My Christmas Package Arrived!

It is looking like Christmas.  People have been putting up lights.  Not everyone celebrates Christmas or puts up lights or trees.  It is like optional here, which is weird.  And if they do have a tree at all,  it is really small and they put it on a table to make it look bigger!  Ha ha!

Thank you so much for my birthday presents!  I love my new tie!  And the watches are perfect and very flashy!  I love every present you gave me!  Thanks!   Not much exciting happened on my birthday, someone in my district had the same birthday as me.  I baked the brownies that you sent me, but they only really cooked on the top so they were extra fudgy!  They were good.  

I got the Christmas package this week.  I love the new socks!!!!  I haven't opened any of the presents yet.  On Christmas we are having breakfast with the Sr couple.  Then, we are going to some peoples house to sing, or do service or something.  Then we are hopefully going to eat Christmas dinner with a less active family who are Americans.   And we have a teaching appointment that night!  Then on Boxing Day we are skyping you!  The family where we were going to go are now going to the beach, so we are going to our ward mission leaders house.  

We had a wedding this week.  Some of our investigators got married. We are now going to re-teach them and then they can hopefully get baptized.  We haven't been able to see a lot of our investigators because everyone has been so busy with Christmas things.  So we are kind of in a slow spot.  I thought that it would be the exact opposite at Christmas, and everyone would want to hear the message of the Saviors birth.  Oh well, we just try to remind them that the reason for Christmas is not for presents, but to celebrate the birth of Christ.

After the wedding this week, there was a huge feast.  They dig a hole in the ground and they put wood in, and then cover it with dirt.  It was pretty cool, it tasted like dirt though, maybe they did it wrong.  It was great though.

I am so excited for Grandma to be a missionary!  [my mom is going to do a service mission, working in the mission office of the Oklahoma Tulsa Mission] Tell her to take a picture of her badge and send it to me.  I am so excited for her!  Those grandma missionaries are the best! 

I have just finished studying Matthew this week.  I really have received a testimony of the scriptures.  I have gained a greater love of the Savior and his life here on the Earth and how he showed us how to live.  I love Jesus Christ and I am so glad I could gain this strong witness right before Christmas.  I know this is the true church and this is his work. 

Merry Christmas!

Elder Tuckett