New Year!

Hola,

Well, you're right, I am having some difficulties coming up with things to say this week.  I was very glad to have a chance to talk with you on Thursday.  It really does help me to know that everything is going OK for you guys there.  I look forward to Mother's day, but I know that one is a while away.  Still, the time passes really fast here in the mission.  I still can't really believe that it's almost 2015.  I've been checking my to-do list, and I think I'm doing pretty well for this year.  I've learned, more or less, a new language.  I've visited a foreign country.  I've met new people, and tried to help them whenever possible.  I think the only thing I'm missing is to finish reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish.  I'm almost done with Mormon, but I know I still have a ways to go.  We don't work on the first of January, so I'm hoping to have some time to finish it then.  I'm trying to come up with some new goals for the coming year though, and I would like some help with it.  So if you have any suggestions, let me know.

As far as new things go, the list is fairly short.  My cut is healing up fine, and I do have some antibiotic cream, so don't worry.  And if I run out, it's not too hard to find a pharmacy here.  And just as long as I don't need Percaset, I should be fine.  (Kind of weird that one.  Sister Crickmore told us once that that is the only drug she hasn't been able to find here in Mexico.  And considering the fact that she's had two knee replacements, and one hip replacement, I trust her knowledge of drugs.)  Other than that, things continue more or less the same here.  The husband of the less active who hadn't gone to church in 37 years got out of the hospital, so she was able to go yesterday.  From what I have seen she really has the desire to change, so I have good hopes for her and her family.  Other than that things are going kind of slow here.  We haven't seen too much progress from the other people we have been teaching.  Still, we're not going to give up.  I do hope that things will get a bit better when we get out of the holiday season though.

I think that's about it for me this week.  We got to go up to the volcanoes and introduce some latinos to snow today, so that was fun.  Some of the sisters made a fairly poor excuse for a snowman, but that's OK, the snow was pretty bad for that kind of a thing.  It was a nice break though.  OK, I love you, and I'll write you next week.

Love,

Elder Samuel Long