Well, I hope that all is merry and jolly there. Here, I find it so odd that their Christmas cards and decorations have snow when almost no one here has ever seen snow and it's THE MIDDLE OF THE RIDICULOUSLY HOT SUMMER! I guess some things are world-wide, but it's weird to see drawings of snowmen painted on buildings (almost so hot that the paint just melts off!) when they don't even have any idea of how much work it takes to make one. The descriptions of what they think walking in the snow is like is actually quite funny; they describe it like walking through knee-high dust! Even my companions from the south (WAY south) have said that the most that they've ever seen is frost...not the same thing (although it is IS pretty Oregonian).
So yesterday we sang in a missionary choir "Quando o Anjo Proclamo" (The First Noel) at a choral fireside in Recife. Because of this I got a good chunk of time to talk to Elder Apeland (we took the same bus coming back). He's doing well. I think that he would be a cool companion because he has a desire to do what's right and he already speaks Portuguese well for an American who got stuck in the states. His area is also the only chapel that I've heard of that has couches (it's a pretty rich area...), so he got pretty surprised when I explained about how several wards don't even have chapels. He's a pretty cool guy. I'm certain that we met on some committee, but neither one of us remembers.
Anyway, I love you all!
Elder Page
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