Hey!

Well, another week in Moreno, and it was a good one. Turns out, I lost like 10 pounds since i´ve been in the field. I´m starting to lose it all around my face, yeah! I´m going to come back a skinny handsome man! Haha
Our Ward in Moreno had a Christmas Party last week and it was pretty much the best ward party I have ever been to in my life. I have pictures, but I didn´t know we were going to come to the computers right now. I thought we were going later. I will send them ASAP. During the ward party; the Bishop was playing some music on his computer and it was music in English. Althought the lyrics weren´t the best. But, knowbody understood English so they didn´t know! It was hilarious. He eventually turned it off because he asked me what it meant. Totally hilarious.
Okay, I need to answer some questions. First one, I didn´t come on the computers until now because we had a Christmas Mission Conference this morning in Haedo, which is about an hour by train to the main mission office. We had the opportunity to listen to both the President and his Wife, all in Spanish of course. But, I could understand when they spoke, but everybody else, no way. We had a gift exchange with all 170 missionaries in our mission and it was tons of fun. It was nice to relax a little bit and be spiritually recharged for the week. For lunch we had: Hot Dogs (for those people that never had them before), Asado (which is like a thick steak), Sausage (Delicious), Fruit Salad, a vegetable salad with mayonesa (the people here love mayonesa), juice, and a salad with like lettuce and carrots and a little bit of vinegar. It was delicious. So, yeah we got back at like 6:00pm Argentina time. Its about 7:05 now so sorry for the late letter. We had a talent show where I got to play a special musical number on the piano (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen plus Carol of the Bells). It went pretty well. Two Elders in my District (Elder Hart and Elder Woodruff) decided to have a Dance-Off during lunch. And the President loved it! He was laughing so hard he was about to fall on the ground laughing.
I did recieve the package from you today. Thank you and I look forward to enjoying it as soon as we get back to the apartment.
I don´t know what time we are calling on the 25th, but be ready for a call anywhere between 6am-12pm that day. Because of the time difference and I don´t know when it´s going to happen.
I got to see my companions from the MTC at the conference today, Elder Alkema and Elder Jones. They are doing well and they are in the same boat I am with Spanish, that is, not a lot of understanding but can speak well.
About the yellow tie in the MTC pictures, I found about 5 ugly ties in the ceiling tiles in the MTC in our residence hall. Every friday, we had ugly tie friday for our zone. But I didn´t follow it much, because I always like to wear a good tie. But this other Elder didn´t have any ugly ties. So, I asked if he wanted to trade one good tie for 5 ulgy ones (because I deserved a reward for my exploration and excavation). He agreed and thus, I have the yellow tie.
During this Christmas season, we need to remember the gift that the Savior gave us. He gave us the opportunity to live with our families forever in the presence of God after we die, clean from sin, and perfectly happy. A plaque in my Mission President´s Office says: "The most important things in life are not things". Remember that as Christmas roles around, accompanied with advertisements, sales, and propaganda surrounding the latest toy or gadget for the holidays. Christmas is a time to celebrate the Birth of our Savior and the life that he lead for us.