26 December 2009--Feliz Año Nuevo!

Wow it was awesome to be able to talk to you guys yesterday. That was really the best gift I received for Christmas, even though your package was awesome! It was so good to be able to talk to everyone, and hear that everyone is doing so well. I loved the pictures you guys sent on the USB too. Everyone had a good laugh looking through them, especially the ones that I looked drunk in. Thank you for the shirts and socks too, and I wore my new tie yesterday. The tie Uncle Ted gave is awesome too, and don’t worry I’m not going to give it away. We attacked the assistants with the water guns last night too, it was pretty hilarious. Seriously the package was the best, and I’m loving the American Candy too! This Christmas was just awesome. It just makes me sad every time that it ends because now we have to wait a whole year for Christmas again, but I’ll be home for the next one. Crazy!
Well the work is going great down here in Peru. This week was absolutely crazy, and the goal was just to get through Wednesday. We had the new missionaries, and the old missionaries trainings and everything the same day because of Christmas. Usually the new missionaries come in a day later. So we were going crazy, leaving at 6 like every day, and some nights getting home at like 10:30. We went to the airport, and it makes me a little trunky every time seeing missionaries heading to their houses. Its all good though we made it through. I also got the payments all ready yesterday, so I can submit it first thing Monday morning. I am a little worried for the holiday season that they will submit the payment late like they did during Thanksgiving, so I’m entering it a day early too.

So the work proselyting is going good too. We have a few great families that we are teaching right now, and we are hoping they will accept a baptismal date soon. We were in a Panadaria (a bakery) teaching a young man, when a lady came in to buy bread. I started to talk with her about which of the breads tasted best here in Peru. It was Christmas Eve so we wished her a Merry Christmas, and then she left. Then about 5 minutes later she came back with her son, and called us out for just a second. The first words she said were, “What do you have to do to be a Mormon?” Lets just say we were surprised, and happy. We took her direction and we are going tonight to visit them. Its crazy how the Lord just prepares people, and if we don’t find them, they find us! It was awesome, and I know that when we are doing whats right the Lord guides us where and what we need to do.
Well it was another great week, and the highlight was really talking to you guys. I’m sure these next five months are going to fly, and we’ll be talking again soon. Thanks for everything, I love you guys so much. Nos Vemos!
Love,
Elder Lee

The pictures are of our little celebration of Christmas. My companion and I opening the presents. Those sandals are a pair made out of car tire rubber. My pensionista in Huaycan sent them too me because I always said I wanted a pair. She also game me two peruvian cookbooks.