"and a happy new year!"

First of all I hope that everyone had a fun and safe holiday season!!   

From last week I forgot to include the scripture that I had ponderized for the week.  It is found in 2 Nephi 2:7.   I invite all of you to go and read it.

I can now send some pictures I have taken from my house. This one I believe is looking across the lake.  The lake is only like 100 yards from the house.   And behind the house is a grand mountain, with a volcano. I will try to get a picture of the volcano.  It is pretty cool.  

 

 

 Another picture from the apartment this one is looking across 

the lake at a different angle.

 Picture taken through the window of the mountain at the back of our apartment.  If you can't tell it goes straight up, it is not flat.

This week, as you all know was the ending of the old year and the birth of a new.  And like many people in the states, there are fireworks and music and parties.  But, here it is crazier.  My companion and I had to be in our house early, at 5 in the afternoon.  It was okay because together we made pizza and that was really good. We also got to bed a little early, but it didn’t serve us much good.  The fireworks started with music before 9 in the night and the music didn’t stop until 7 in the morning.

Helping make the pizza for our New Years Eve dinner. 

(Yea we finally got a picture with Elder Draper in it)

 Our YUMMY pizza.

In our sector a lot of the people are returning to the area from their work.  We are hoping to find more investigators to share the word of God with.

Because we only have a hot plate, the sister that is renting the apartment to us has a restaurant underneath us and we used her oven.  She has a little restaurant that she sells fish in it.  She runs it on Sundays and that is the only day, (she is inactive but has desires to return to the church and activity.) 

It is pretty cold here, I am getting used to it more and more, I did have to pull out my heavier coat.  I took the liner out and the coat kept me warm.  When we are in the house it does get a little cold, but it is easier to stay warmer. 

This week, we were finishing planning and my comp wanted to hear a prayer in English as we finished  our planning session.  I tried, but I had to use Spanglish.  I caught myself using Spanish in the prayer, and he thought it was weird that that can really happen. 

"Good bye, farewell, I bid to say adeiu"

Elder Draper