December 11, 2017

Left to Dry

First things first, Huge shout out to my parents for the wedding anniversary this week!! Ok, now that that's out of the way I can complain about how stinking hot it is here. It's killing me. We were up close to 100 degrees this week with killer humidity. Our little fans in our pension can't spin fast enough! 

This week I had my first experience as a senior companion. We had divisions (splits?) this week and I was assigned to go out with a brand new Elder from Chicago. He speaks really good for a new yankee, but still my Spanish was our best chance of survival. Not only did we survive, we thrived and had a really successful day. 

The other fun thing this week was our branch's ward Christmas party. The only problem was this culture doesn't wake up til 9 at night so that's when the party started. Our curfew is 9:30 so we didn't get to celebrate much but we did steal some pretty good chicken and bubbly to eat in our pension. We also watched a First Presidency message from Uchtdorf and that was the highlight for me. I understood almost all of it and loved when he said something about it's not about where you are, but the spirit in your heart. So go ahead and remember the Reason for the season and enjoy some cold weather for me!!!

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

sorry for the quality of the photos but one is me and Elder Mallett setting up our Christmas tree and lights we bought. Sadly it's one of the biggest trees I've seen here. The other is the food we stole from the ward activity!!