Well, this week, as many will know, was Christmas week, and that was a great thing for the mission. We being office missionaries, have the privilege to work closely with the President, and that means that we spent Christmas Eve with him and his family, who came down from Utah to visit! that's such a blessing for him! It's the only time in his three years that he'll be seeing his two sons and one daughter-in-law, so it's really been special for him. I'd never seen him so happy and relaxed to be honest. We played the traditional white elephant party game, which was really fun. I actually ended up with a really cool gift that I've been wanting since I came here (I can't remember the word in English, so bear with me): one of those like liter and a half plastic containers for water that has a big unscrewable lid and then the little thing on the lid that pops in and out and lets you pour water out of it when it's popped out, but doesn't spill when it's popped in. I guess it's kinda like an individual water cooler with a spout???? I dunno.... In Paraguay, we call it a Termo.
I'm including pics of some of my favorite gifts that were exchanged.
Before the game, we had a really good dinner of some sweet, Mexican chicken in tortillas. I guess that's a kind of taco, but it wasn't a traditional taco and was delicious.
I played piano and we sang hymns, President read the Christmas story in Lucas, and then we said a prayer. It was a really nice Christmas. After the prayer, everyone kind of got to do what they wanted, and so a bunch of people went outside to play basketball or ping-pong, but I saw that President had stopped with the two of the only three Latinos who were there to look at the pictures he had mounted on the wall from his trip to the Holy Land. He started to tell us all about Israel and the city of Jerusalem. It was so amazing and I was so glad to be able to hear from him all the things he had learned there.
Christmas day was so wonderful, with our Zone Activity. We had a huge breakfast, and then we went to sing Christmas carols in the huge national hospital called IPS. It was so nice because so many of those people have no Christmas and were just waiting there waiting for difficult news or in other states of sadness. Or even the nurses working that we took the time to sing to. It was really wonderful.
I don't have any more time to write, but I'm doing well and just wanted to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I hope that you are able to keep Christ in your hearts and remember Him in all that you do. I pray that we will be able to kneel down each night and pour out our hearts to Him in gratitude for the great gift that we have received of Him.
Love,
Elder Harris
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