Yesterday we had a Christmas devotional. It was really
neat. There was 4 zones, so I got to see a few people that I know. Two
people from my MTC district were there, Elder Girksnes and Elder Aubrey. And a few people that were in the zone I'm in now that had been changed
the transfer. (This is how you know his Spanish is getting better, because his English is worse. So cute!) They fed us some food and we watched the Disney movie "Iron Will" in Spanish. I think that would be my first time watching a movie in
a different language, and without subtitles or anything. Luckily, I have
just enough time that I understood a decent amount. (Translated in English he means he's been in Guatemala enough time to understand the Spanish) It was a really good
movie too. It helps that I'm kind of deprived from movies. Watching
anything on an electronic screen is automatically super neat.
On the bus drive back one of the Latino elders that can speak some English started to sing the song "Friday" only with "P-day" in place of "Friday." I just thought that was funny and you guys would like to know.
We pretty much had 2 P-days because of the devotional, it ended about the same time as P-day does.
I'm really exited to talk to you guys.
This morning I was reading the Liahona in English and there was a guy
whose last name was Amado (which is a word in Spanish) (It means "beloved") and I was just zoned
out enough that I had to stop and look up to double check what language I was reading in.
The Spanish is coming along really good. It helps that I speak it all the time. Sometimes I feel like I'm just
uncomfortable talking two languages now.
I haven't gotten
your box yet, but nobody in the zone has gotten mail for the last week
or two, so we are thinking something's up. Maybe they're saving it in the
office until Christmas. I feel like it would be a lot of work delivering
all the mail Christmas day though. Maybe they got their hands on Santa Clause technology.
One of these days you need to send me Rick's letters too, or is it Elder Pedersen? Anyway I would love to read them. (I actually mailed them this morning finally!)
From what I've heard and seen the Christmas traditions in Guatemala are:
throw firecrackers and eat tamales. They really love fireworks here. A
little while ago we were talking to a lady walking down the street and a
guy came out of his house and yelled "yeahh CREAMA!!" really loud (creama
is the Spanish word for cream). And after screaming for a while he threw a big rope of firecrackers. It was kind of weird. Sometimes I love this place. It's a tad less weird
knowing that it's the soccer finals here in Guatemala. But it was still
funny. These people are crazy.
-Elder Jarvie
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