December 26 2011

Well, that was by far the shortest year of my life.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I sure did. We got spoiled by the wards here with plenty of food and ties and stuff. We got some sweet zipper ties, which is the new clip-on. Im pretty stoked to use it... The call home was amazing. I wish we could have talked longer, but the next call will come a lot sooner than we think, or at least thats how it was last year, remember?

Well this is going to be really short, due the to the call and everything, but pretty much the biggest thing we have going right now is the few families we are teaching. They are all coming along great, and are pretty excited about it all. Changes were yesterday, and for the first time in my whole mission that I have ewver seen, nobody in our zone got changed. Everyone stayed the same. We have a small zone to start with, but it just seems weird, like a neverending change. I put some pretty hefty goals for my self for this next year, so we will see whats happens. President has been drilling us with lack of faith in our goals, so I went with the "shoot for the moon, and you´ll land among the stars" type deal. Should be fun.

After the call last night, i remembered I wanted to tell you guys about how i ran into an investigator i was teaching in my last area Champoton, that got baptized soon after I left. He saw me in the street here in Campeche and ran over and grabbed me from behind. Hes 19 and practices karate on a national level, so hes pretty big and it freaked me out. But when i saw it was him, I couldnt have ever imagined how happy it made me to see him, ater knowing he had been baptized just a few weeks before. It made me think about returning to the penisula after the mission, and then eventually made me think about how it will be in the Celestial Kingdom. I cant even imagine what joy there will be seeing others who are there, and i had the oppurtunity to help them get there. It was one of the tender momnets.

Well sorry this is so short, but you know how it is. I attached so pics of things that happened this week. One is of the breakfast we had with all the Elders of Merida and Prsident and his family. It was really fun just seeing everyone. Another is of me and the niño I baptized. He wasnt an investigator becuase his mom is a member and he is 8 years old, but they wanted me to baptize him. It was awesome. Well take care. Have a great new yeras and be safe!

Love,

Elder Kitterman