From Elder Jordan--Christmas Season Reflections

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From: Elder Jordan
Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM

Buenas Tardes mi familia hermosa,

This week has been a good one and to make it better, changes were yesterday and me and Elder Weaver get to stay, so you will be seeing him on Christmas.

To be honest this year has really flown by super fast, I feel like I just talked with you for Christmas and here it is again.  As a mission we had an activity on Tuesday.  We met at a huge park in the morning and had a big relay verses the other zones.  Obviously our zone won, ha ha. Then we just had a couple of hours to do different activities of our choosing, such as soccer or flag football or ultimate frisbee.  I played ultimate frisbee for a while then sat down and talked with Elder Erickson for a little bit, (he is the one that lives in Eagle Idaho).  At about 2:00 we went back to the chaplel, got dressed in our normal clothing and ate a delishous lunch.  Afterward we listened to President as he talked about Christmas,  he loves Christmas, you can ask him any day of the year how many days are left until Christmas and he can give you a responce right away.

Side note, why is Christmas Celebrated on the 25th of December when we know he was born in April.  In the times of the Romans the 20th of December was the Solinvictious, meaning it was the shortest day of the year.  They celebrated this day because it meant there would be more sun everyday from then on.  As time went on the celebration became more and more evil and wicked.  After the death of Christ the Christians decided to replace this dark celebration with that of the birth of our Saviour.  That is why every december we comemorate the birth of Christ. Neat huh.

Afterward we watched the Christmas Carol, which helped me feel very much in the Spirit of Christmas. Right now we are working with a couple of investigators, to see if they might be baptised on Christmas, what a special day that would be.

I hope the Christmas season is going good for you all I love you.

LOVE
Elder...

Pictures:
Christmas Activity
Christmas Dinner
Family Home Evening
I think I need some new shoes

Mom I am super sorry I should have told you this last week but as you can see my shoes have gone the way of the world and the ones I am wearing right now will probably last a couple more weeks at best.  I have looked many places but they just don´t sell shoes in my size unless I want to pay 70 bucks.  Do you think you could look at savers or the D I if they have any,  anything that fits dad will fit me,  if there is nothing I will just get some here.  Thanks so much mom.

Mikayla I better here from you when you are up at school !!!