Elder Matt Smith: It is probably just another drill!- Christmas!

Hey what is up guys, and how is the swimming? Right now I’m freaking tired, I got about 5 hours a sleep last night and we had to wake up before 5 to get to Santiago for the Mission picture of all of the missionaries, and I just got back from helping somebody move for the past 2 hours. They decided that I was the biggest one there and that I should be the one to carry all of the appliances and bed frames so I got my workout in today. It was cool I got to see a lot of my friends in the mission that aren’t in my district so that was fun.

So for Christmas it should be like a normal day, but it won’t because everyone will be partying and we will keep in the house and the chapel for most of the day. Usually people celebrate their Christmas festivities on the day before, so that day we will eat at a members house, and we have some plans with a family that we are teaching. So we can’t really do what we want, but the schedule is flexible. For the call I will call anywhere from noon to about 3 your time, and it will be an 809 or 829 number. So I will call the home, and have y’all call me back so I don’t have to pay for it, and we will get to talk for awhile so I am excited to see how y’all are doing.

So we have had quite a bit of branch activities this week, so we have had some fun with the branch the past week, which means a lot of food and gift exchanges. I got a tie and some socks for my gift exchange. But it has been sweet this past week we are working hard with a family with parents named Rauline y Adneti and two kids Larisa and Ryme which are just awesome. We are spending Christmas Eve with them, to make sure that they don’t have their wine to celebrate Christmas. We taught the Word of Wisdom this week, and the only problem they have with it is that they drink a little on special occasions so we are working with this because that is the only problem they seem to have. They are reading and praying as a family and coming to all of the church activities and practically our whole branch knows them so we are lucky! They are the only couple in the whole neighborhood that is legally married where they live so we had luck contacting. So hopefully all goes well with this family.

Today we had a fun day in Santiago, we didn’t get to go to Chili’s because it is wayyyy expensive here and we didn’t have time, so I took Elder Franco to Taco Bell for my Christmas gift to him. I almost had a close call today, the store I usually buy my Dr Pepper was out of it, but luckily we found another store that had it but it was like a dollar a can, but when I had the craving I bought the last 8 they had so I can celebrate my Christmas the right way.

But guys I am way stoked for Este Sabado, I can’t wait to hear y’alls voices. Take care and only a couple of more days, I hope y’all enjoy the pics!

Elder A-Smeet