Just you and Dad wrote me this week so I have more time to write you :) To answer your questions: Yes I did get the hymn book and its great :) Just not too much time to practice :/ but when I can I am using it. I love the music! But my CD player broke and I haven't been able to fix it and President just changed the rule that we can no longer use our USBs with the DVD players we all have in the house for the training videos because they keep breaking and he doesn't want to keep buying new ones. So I bought a speaker that can play MP3 and gave my USB and all the discs to a youth in the ward that downloaded them all and put them on the USB for me haha. So yes I love all the music! Especially the children's primary songs! Elder Lopez didn't get to go to primary so its fun singing the sunbeam song and book of mormon stories and I hope they call me on a mission haha. I hope I answered all your questions... TO make it easier and more likely that I answer your questions if you put them all in a line at the end of the email in bold or something, that way I can answer them quicker.
I am glad you liked the video haha. I wanted to do something fun for her birthday but I couldn't think of anything. It wasn't raining haha it was the fan in our house I think. And we don't have very many light bulbs in our house so its kinda dark sometime haha. But I thought the video was pretty funny and I hope Adalynn loved it :)
Looks like you all had way too much fun this week! Haha I will lie and say I'm not jealous haha. Looks like Disney is milking all they can out of Frozen still. Didn't that come out over a year ago? And its still like the biggest thing ever. Haha but that's fun the pictures were cute. Poor Tate has to be tortured by Santa Clause while his cousin is in Disney Land having fun haha! He isn't a big fan of the holiday people so far with the Easter bunny and Santa. I love the picture of Adalynn with Pluto. He was always my favorite :) And the pic of Jenn in the hat made me smile. I bet Jenni was just dying the whole time. Should've had dad take the pictures of Adalynn's face and Greg the face of Jenn and see which is more excited haha.
This week was pretty good, but we had a ton of meetings :/ Tuesday we went to the temple and we got back to the area late and we were in a big rush to get P Day stuff done and we hardly got to rest because when we got back to the house finally at 5:50 we had to go into Tampico and bring Elder Arcela a bunch of his clothes. He is still with the secretaries and we don't know whats gonna happen with him. He goes home in a week. Either he will be with us in trio from Wednesday till he goes home, or he will stay with the secretaries. This transfer is only 5 weeks long because the church doesn't want transfers so close to Christmas. There is a probable chance that I will leave the area next week. I have already been here 4 transfers and its very rare that they leave a missionary more than 4, but I also am training and would need to finish training Elder Lopez but they could put him with another trainer. Its all up to president and his revelation but I'm kinda worried. I don't want to leave. I am ready for a new area but I want to finish training with Elder Lopez. We have gotten along really well and I love training and I wouldn't mind being here in the area for Christmas. But we will see what happens next Sunday!
Did dad read you the rules for the Christmas calls? I will call on the 24th and we can call on Skype. Send me all the information with your account and my account. I don't remember what my Skype account is so if you just make a new one that's fine. What time do you want to talk? We can only talk for 40 minutes on the 25th and we have to be done talking at or before 4:00. When is the best time for me to call?
I don't know where I will be for Christmas but I am hoping I am here in Villa Cuahutemoc! I will let you know Sunday through camera what happens!
This Friday we had our meeting with trainers and trainees. It was nice to see Elder Flores again and Elder Lopez liked seeing all his MTC friends. Haha my family is very brown, no? At least my grandpa is white haha. He just when home when Elder Lopez got here. His name is Elder Bartschi (I think) from Las Vegas haha but the rest of my family is latino!
The Christmas tree you sent me broke but we found something even better. I'll send you the pic haha.
We did watch the Christmas devotional. It was good but I honestly expected better. I had never seen one before.
I cant think of anything super special that happened this week so I will share something I forgot to share last week.
The first day of this transfer I was with Elder Castillero, a missionary from Panama that is in Elder Lopez's generation. We were walking around exploring the area a bit and contacting and we saw a man working on his car and I told Elder Castillero to contact him and give him a Book of Mormon. It was his first time contacting but he did good and we gave him the Book of Mormon and put an appointment for later in the week. Elder Lopez and I later went to teach him and invited him to be baptized and he accepted and we invited him to church and also accepted. We left happy and with a return appointment. When we went for the appointment he wasn't there, so we kept passing by hoping he would be there but he never was. So last Saturday we said Okay we are just gonna pass one more time at Jose Luis's house to see what he says and so we went and he was there and we put another return appointment and got his phone number and invited him to church the next day. He said he might be working but he would try to come. I was thinking oh well he isn't gonna come, his loss.
So the next day in church I was playing the piano and Elder Lopez said ¨Hey lets send a message to Jose Luis and remind him about coming to church and I just said well okay if you want to you can but he said he couldn't come, and I just thought it was a waste of two pesos haha our minutes our really valuable! But we waited and finally sacrament meeting started and I had to bless so I was sitting up on the stand and After the opening prayer the door opened and a ton of people came in, including Jose Luis and his wife and 5 daughters! I was in shock and I just looked at Elder Lopez, who hadn't notice, and he turned around and his face just lit up haha. It was humbling for me and made me happy to see Elder Lopez so happy. We went to see him this week and put another baptism date and invited him to church again and invited him to invite the rest of his family to talk with us (They were all in another room watching soap operas) and he said again he was gonna try to come. Well he didn't come to church this week but we have high hopes that he will progress and the whole family will be baptized, if not while I am here but while Elder Lopez is still here. Its hard because I want him to have success in his first area and his training because I know how big of a motivator and up lifter it was for me to have baptisms that I felt like I actually had a part in in my training. But since we are opening an area we have to be a bit more patient, but things are looking up.
I hope I wrote enough to make up for the last two weeks!
Love you!
Love you!
Elder Skalla
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