HAPPY NEW YEAR

> HAPPY NEW YEAR! > > well ladies and gents 2013 has come and gone in the blink of an eye it will always and forever be the only year that i spent every bit of it in the mission. i hope all of you had amazing christmases and got lots a gifts, clothes and toys, but more than that i hoped you enjoyed being with family. > > i got to skype home christmas day! and that was great, i cried, but hey i dont know why they say grown men dont cry. it was weird seeing my brother kamen sitting on the couch. > > so my new companion has come and guess what...ITS ANOTHER URUGUAYAN, named elder marinoski. hes a super cool guy, super relaxed and kind of quiet. hes got 3 more months before he goes home. so once again im surround by missionaries who are home sick. > > i spent sunday night in the bus terminal all night awake waiting for missionaries to come and go, and then went out monday to work. that was an interesting day, i feel asleep in all the lessons and even better, feel asleep while teaching during a lesson. i didnt know it was possible to be talking and to fall asleep. > > today however i will be spending the majority of the day sleeping and then tonight celebrating the new years. they go NUTS here with fire works, christmas eve and tonight sound like a war, i must say they one up us when it comes to fourth of july and fireworks here. although it feels like fourth of july here with it being summer. > > christmas day i woke up feeling very homesick, and we spent the morning moping around the house, really only worried about the phone call home we would be making later that day. we left the house like always to go out and visit people, but we honestly did it very half heartedly, we were pretty sad, that was until we arrived at a certan members house. an old man who lives alone, who had passed christmas eve and christmas alone. we started to share a christmas message with him but as we did he started to cry. He then told us that no body had come to visit him for christmas, but that he did not feel alone because he felt Christ with him, he told us that he knew Christ was with him because He had sent him 3 missionaries to go and sit with him for 15 minutes and share a christmas message. > > That visit changed my christmas for forever, i felt a little peice of the true meaning of christmas, i felt peace, goodwill towards man. when i called home, i was excited but my focus had changed, i was so grateful to be where i was this christmas, because it was where i needed to be. > > i love you guys, FELIZ AÑO NUEVO

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