Conferencia Navideña
With the entire Eddy family! (minus Big Joe in the Dominican Republic)
Pictures in front of the Montevideo Temple
Main room: CLEAN AT LAST
Hermana Cabrera
Elder Estouco's art abilities extend beyond just paper
A surprise for Fouca and Anampa (bought them hats)
Chuy Family Pictures
Midnight and the Fireworks!
Setting up the equipment for Skype!
¡Asado con Elias, Eva, y la familia extendida Rodriguez!
Thank you Yaco for sending this picture Christmas morning to us via Facebook.
*We had a wonderful video call over Google Hangouts from Elder Newman. It was so fantastic to hear his voice and see his face as he interacted with each of us. He is happy and working hard and loving his time on his mission. We've attached some pictures taken from our end of the call.
Mom, I hope you and the fam had the most wonderful Christmas you can ever imagine. I truly felt your love and the Savior`s love yesterday throughout the day. :) <3
This was an interesting week! We had our Christmas Conference with half the mission this past Tuesday. We had breakfast, talked about using the BoM for doubts and objections, lunch, and a wonderful Christmas section of the devotional. The Spirit was there in rich abundance. This Wednesday we cleaned and reorganized our entire house! It is like a different place now; completely new feel, and the Spirit has been with us more often and fully. We were able to have a charla with Natalya Morais (Nat. 2) and Jeferson (her less-active novio). We put a baptismal date for the 14th of January, but since she didn`t attend church, we have moved it to the 21st. But she has a date! We also shared a beautiful Christmas message with Catia that I have shared with you via audio. She sadly didn`t attend either, and so we had to move her as well. We were not able to meet much with Luis and his family, because they were getting ready to leave for the weekend for relatives in Maldonado. But they are reading and praying still and said they would attend church in Maldonado! We`ll see what happens!
The Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) was amazing for us; we got permission from President Eddy to stay in a member`s house until 22:30 (10:30 PM) and were allowed to be up until 0:30 (12:30 AM) and see the fireworks! So we spent the evening at Waldir`s house, ate, and had a ball. Then we popped some cider bottles on the roof at 0:00 and watch a little bit of fireworks. We then shared our Amigo Secreto gifts with each other until going to bed. On Christmas morning, we had a wonderful Sacrament meeting; Hermano SamPaio and the bishop gave great talks. At 13:00, we had an asado with Eva Rodriguez and all of her children and grand-children, and had cordero (lamb)! ¡Muy rico! (Very Rich!) Then we called our families in the evening (best part of the day) and had a small dinner afterwards with a part-member family. What a wonderful Christmas I had! It was such a blessing to feel the love from my family, the Chuy ward, and my Savior yesterday. I know that He lives and is watching and caring over us in everything we do.
The only problem was that something must not have sat well with me from the food yesterday, because today, I woke up feeling terrible, and have been sick to my stomach. Hoping it passes soon.
Once again, ¡Feliz Navidad! ¡Os quiero! ¡Que tengáis un Nuevo Año buenísimo y que cumpláis con todas vuestras resoluciones! ¡Ciao! (Translation: Merry Christmas! I love you! May you have a terrific New Year and may you fulfill all your resolutions! Ciao!)
Love, Elder Newman
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