December 30, 2017
Well this week was pretty calm here in the office:
1. So this last Sunday was Christmas
eve and so that meant everyone stayed up (didn't eat dinner) and waited until midnight
to let all of the fireworks off. I will say that it wasn't as exciting as my
last Christmas but it was probably because we were in a rich area and we have a
lot of big buildings around us. 
2. Christmas day came around and we
didn't have our office meeting with president. 
(Go figure)
But instead we actually got to spend some time with our actual zone. It was
pretty kool but the breakfast got delayed until the afternoon so we ate this
breakfast-lunch thing and then lunch literally right after that. So then in
that moment I am with the assistants and they wanted to go visit some members.
We show up super full and the lady asked us (in order) if we wanted cake,
masamora, or paneton. We were literally full in that moment and so we told her
we couldn't but while we were giving a spiritual thought she got up and came
back with some cake. Right after we all ate that she got up and came back with
some of that masamora stuff. So in that moment we knew that once we would
finish that she would bring us paneton. So we finished the message we had and
we deliberately didn't finish the masamora until we were about to leave. After
that we decided to go to the office because we knew if we visited sombody else
they would give us more food. And if we ate anything else...........
(Go figure)
But instead we actually got to spend some time with our actual zone. It was
pretty kool but the breakfast got delayed until the afternoon so we ate this
breakfast-lunch thing and then lunch literally right after that. So then in
that moment I am with the assistants and they wanted to go visit some members.
We show up super full and the lady asked us (in order) if we wanted cake,
masamora, or paneton. We were literally full in that moment and so we told her
we couldn't but while we were giving a spiritual thought she got up and came
back with some cake. Right after we all ate that she got up and came back with
some of that masamora stuff. So in that moment we knew that once we would
finish that she would bring us paneton. So we finished the message we had and
we deliberately didn't finish the masamora until we were about to leave. After
that we decided to go to the office because we knew if we visited sombody else
they would give us more food. And if we ate anything else...........
Well pretty much besides those
things not much happened in between the week. But yesterday we celebrated two
birthdays. One was for Elder Yañez, the finance secretary and the other was for
President Amato´s daughter Alice who turned 8. And so yesterday to celebrate
her birthday she was baptized and we were able to attend it. It was kind of
interesting because the ceremony was trilingual. there was English, Spanish,
and Portuguese. But pretty much most of it was in Portuguese and even though it
was like that and I understood about 75% of the meeting you could feel the
spirit super strongly in there. Probably the best part of my week was going to
that.
miss you all,
Elder Garbett
