Hello dearest everybody, 

First and foremost, a very Happy Birthday to my beautiful Myriam Delirium this Wednesday.  I just love her so much, everyone should give her lots of hugs and kisses when they see her because she absolutely LOVES that.  

Secondly, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Obviously this auspicious holiday is not celebrated here, so my companion and I worked as normal, but as soon as we got home and finished planning for the next day, we cooked absolutely all the food that we had in the house, even if it was a bit expired.  We also passed by a panaderia and bought some rather delicious postres.  We tried to find turkey, but all we could find was spam turkey, so we bought a bit of that (to be traditional) and then cooked the chicken that we had in the house.  It was very gourmet.  We had fruit salad, salad (with dressing that I made out of cream, parmesan cheese and green onion, because salad dressing is not very common here), cake and other desserts, spam turkey, chicken, and mashed potatoes and corn.  It was very gourmet.  Then we spoke in English the whole time to celebrate.  I hope you all enjoyed your dinners.

Anyway, my very first day here was a bit difficult because I was a bit depressed that I had left the beautiful greenness and flowers of summer which had been replaced by graffiti and concrete, and three days after I left Omayra was baptized.  So that night I said a very fervent prayer to Heavenly Father that he would help me be happy.  Then the next day and the whole week we taught an unprecedented amount of lessons and our leaders told us that that past week, we were leading the zone, and it´s the biggest zone in the mission.  I am always so much happier when I´m teaching, and it was an answer to a prayer.  We also have so many great investigators.  We have one investigator, Marina, who is preparing for baptism on the 14th and we´re helping her stop smoking right now.  My companion told me that before she was completely depressed and taking so many pills for depression and anxiety and everything, but now she´s not taking anything and she´s changed so much I LOVE IT!! The gospel just makes people happy on their own.  

Also it snowed this week.  What´s up with that.  I just love it here, the members are great, there are so many people to teach, I just love being a missionary!!! Ciao!!