ok so i have almost been here a month now...thats crazy! i feel like i havn't been here for that long, but then again i feel like i have been here forever. guess what, on thanksgiving jeffrey r holland came and spoke to us and i got almost a front row seat. he said that thanksgiving is a good time to think about family and he said that for thanksgiving we were all apart of the holland family. he had all of his grandkids sing a primary song and he told us to picture them as our nieces and nephews. it was pretty cool. then he gave a really cool talk about why we should never be homesick because every reason we would have to be homesick is even a better reason to serve a mission. he said that the more we preach the name of jesus christ the more he preaches our name to heavenly father. it was pretty cool. we had more of a thanksgiving lunch than dinner because all of the workers go home for dinner and so we had a sack dinner. haha. sounds like you guys are taking pretty good care of gus. :) its wierd...they keep preaching to us that learning languages is extremely hard and everyone is saying how hard spanish is and that they all scared for when they have to speak spanish constantly, but i don't have any fear at all. I am totally comfortable at the rate i am learning spanish and i know that if the time comes when i am left speachless the lord will fill my mouth with inspired words. spanish is so easy to me, I always compare it to other languages. spanish has so many cognates its practically like speaking english with an accent. One time that is exactly what i did, i spoke with a thick mexican accent and mixed in some spanglish and everyone in my class thought i was fluently speaking....haha i was like good thing there is the gift of tongues cause you guys really need it. spanish has universal pronunciation, so you will always know how to pronounce and even spell everything unlike english. i always think of those kids who have to learn languages like russian and finish, and i feel like i have it pretty easy. so for christmas i wan't a how to play piano book(a small lightweight one) and a calander cause i always lose track of what day it is. there is a saying the days are like weeks and the weeks are like days. i couldn't explain the way i feel anymore than that. haha. i can't think of anything else right now, maybe a little bit of christmasy stuff to put around my room. i am always talking to the missionaries going to korea and i say that i have been there and i talk it up, but i always like to see the fat ones get nervous when i tell them how it smells like low tide at every meal. LOL. i had a scripture that i was going to give you for my mission plack but i forgot i will send it in my next letter with some pics. i love you all!!!!!
Your missionary
Elder May
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