The Holiday season continues here in Mexico, but we have been able to get some work in. I'm hoping things will go back to normal after this week. Apparently they don't have enough holidays, so they also celebrate the sixth of January here. It's called something like All Kings Day in English, and apparently it's the day that the wise men arrived to give their gifts to Jesus. Apparently the tradition now is that the wise men bring gifts for all the good children, so basically they have 2 and/or 4 Santas here. They also have a kind of cake/bread called rosca de reyes, which has different sections. One of the sections has a little baby Jesus statue in it, and whoever gets that piece gets to be a king for the day or something like that. Needless to say, all the parents today were a bit frantic looking for some gifts, and whatnot for tomorrow. (Whatnot or what not?) Still, I think this is the last official holiday for awhile, so hopefully everything calms down here.
Other than that, things are going more or less the same here. I'm just about used to working in a trio, so I'm sure it will throw me off when we have changes and I go back to only having one companion. Still, it's been a good experience. It's really helped me learn that you can't always please everyone. But we do get along pretty well usually, so it hasn't been too bad. I'd heard some horror stories about being in a trio before, so I'm glad to see most of them didn't come true. The one problem we do have is getting everyone through the shower in the morning. It can be difficult with two, but with three it's just about impossible. And like always we don't always agree on everything, and even more now that there are three of us. Still, I don't think I'll have too many bad memories from this cycle.
OK, I think that's about it for me this week. I'm sorry it's a bit short this week, but I don't feel like there is too much news to share still. The volcano still lets off some smoke every once in a while, but I'm confident that nothing bad will happen. I love you, and I'll talk to you later.
Love,
Elder Samuel Long
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