Well, here we are at Christmas time, once again. It has been quite a year. I think one of my favorite presents this year was the bacon socks. But it's also a time to think back to what has happened this past year. It was the first, and probably only year that has been fully dedicated to missionary work. I had a couple of Christmas parties this past week, one with the mission, one with a family and one with just the missionaries in my apartment. I got a lot of chocolate and fruitcake (both very good things to get). However, I have learned now, more than ever, how valuable public peace laws are. It gets really annoying when everyone and their dog wants to play really loud music in the middle of the streets. Loud enough to rattle the windows. All through the night too. I hardly slept last night. So I'm super tired, but still Christmas was great. Also, I got to talk to my family, which was totally awesome. It made me pretty trunky though. I really miss my family, they just all are so cool. Just 6 more months. It was really weird having it be a hot Christmas. It really didn't feel like Christmas. I got used to the whole snow thing and here it's like 95 degrees with sun that's beating me up. But I still got lots of chocolate, which was great. I even got a tiny little stocking, stuffed with bunches of goodies.
Hope you all have/had a great Christmas!
-Elder Michael Carlson
[Michael sent us a short story and a couple of pictures in a separate email]
We had a mission conference this past week for Christmas and there was a white elephant portion too. I brought one of my protuguese-english excercise books that I don't use anymore, all wrapped up. It was hilarious because a brazilian ended up with it. I was laughing for at least 20 minutes after he opened it. I ended up with a really crappy santa hat. We also watched the new movie, "God is not Dead". I rather enjoyed it. It did have its bits of false doctrine but overall shared a good message.
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