¡Hola familia y amigos!
I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas this year. Lots of smiles, lots of love, lots of service - lots of Christ. Thank you for being such great family and friends. I am very blessed to have you. May God bless and be with you.
It was so great to talk to the family over the internet. Everybody looks so good! Weston is talking a lot, and Sam and Hunter are huge! Stop feeding everybody so well. Now you all have to tell me what YOU did for Christmas. I tried to ask you, but nobody paid attention! You kept asking questions about me! What did you all give for Christmas? What memories did you make? How did you serve others? I hope you all took the chance to do these things. Feliz Navidad y Año Nuevo to all of you.
In Argentina (and, i presume, much of South America) la Navidad is celebrated differently. People gather with family and friends to have a big festive lunch and/or dinner on the 24th. Dinner starts cooking at 8 or 9pm, and people eat and celebrate together until the wee hours of Christmas morning. At midnight everybody - everybody - lights off fireworks a fúl. Christmas day, sometime after everone wakes up, they like to have another nice lunch, and that kindof ends the celebration. It´s really fun, and I would love to have the full experience sometime after the mission. We had permission to have dinner in the house of a member until 10:30. They cooked an amazing asado (south-american BBQ), and if I had the luck to use a computer cool enough to have a USB port I´d try to send you pictures :)
Anyway, love you all. Thanks for all you do for me and for each other. Keep being the awesome people you are. Merry Christmas y Happy New Year.
Con amor,
Elder Blake
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