December 25, 2011

!Feliz Navidad!

well i´m glad you got my message that i was writing you today...:) i guess i'll just have to make up some stuff.
it's been a pretty good few days since thursday. ok first for dad, this is probably not good, and probably not missionary appropriate, but one of the guys in my district was playing some music, and guess what it was? it was danny boy! i'm not sure what the song is called, but it goes like "we bought a six pack at the liquor store and we drank them in her car..." you know that one? it just reminded me of home so it was good.

and for trev and karissa, we had a little nativity program last night, and we sung a bunch of songs and did some other stuff, but when mary and joseph came out, mary pulled the baby out of nowhere, and it reminded me of guy on a buffalo, "cheaper than adoption" right? it was funny, but no one here has seen guy on a buffalo so i couldn't share it with anyone.

for lyce and chip, the card with taylor on it is perfect, that's definitely going up on my wall. and good on ya lyce for taking control with that tape, did i hear chip on it though...?

oh and i think you know i saw bro and sis adams, i told them to tell you hi, so i hope they did, but anyway they brought me some goodies, some candy and a bouncy ball, which will actually provide a lot of fun, but if you want to tell them thanks again for me that would be great!

Christmas Eve was good here. it was probably the first time i've really been homesick though, just cause like a few days ago trev was saying about how him and karissa were up all night and stuff, and it just made me miss stuff like that, and so i was thinking about staying up all night eating junk food and playing video games and stuff on Christmas Eve, so it was a little hard. and it's bad too since we'll probably like never do it again, i don't know, i guess we'll see, but it'll just be harder now. really the day was the same as any other day. we still had class and stuff, so no different. but at night we had a little devotional like i mentioned, and then we watched like this 80's version of a Christmas carol, and it was probably the weirdest movie i've ever seen. it had like clark c taylor or chuck or whatever his name is, if you've happened to see that movie, but i would definitely recommend against it. and then brother monson, i've mentioned him before, came over and talked to the zone, and gave everyone a little card, so that was good. he's a sweet guy though, he's the prophet's nephew, so he's super spiritual and way smart as well, but he comes in wearing skinny jeans and vans, and he's like 50 years old, so it was awesome. we also had a sleepover, well the two other elders that don't sleep in our room came over, so that was exciting i guess. we opened one present Christmas Eve, the little pez guy, but don't worry, i saved the rest for this morning. so yeah we got up this morning and we all went around one by one and opened presents and it was a lot of fun! thanks again for everything! and tell grandma bearnson thanks too, i actually was thinking i needed a good picture of Jesus so that was perfect. i also really loved the tape, it was awesome to hear from everyone! it's good to know i'm not too forgotten yet! or at least when everyone is forced to think of me they do! :) but tell everyone i appreciated it and i miss them all a ton! i hope everyone is doing awesome!  but then today we watched a little mo tab thing for like 30 minutes, then we had a sacrament meeting where elder bednar and his wife spoke. it was great! he's a funny guy actually! but i learned a lot too. i don't know how appropriate it is, but basically what i got out of it was like the greatest convert on your mission should be yourself, but if you're looking for it, you won't find it. like you don't get it because you want it, you get it because you're forgetting yourself and turning to Christ. he actually said "who cares what you want? get over yourself!" so he was super blunt, but it was good. it made me realize i have a ton to work on, so we'll see how it goes.

well that's basically all i've got for only like three days worth of stuff. thank you again for everything. i hope the tape worked, and i hope you didn't laugh too much at it :) merry christmas, i don't know how to do upside down exclamation points, or i would, but you get the idea :) i hope you all had a great Christmas! it's been good down here! thanks for all the prayers and support! talk to you on thursday!

much love,

elder paskett