Okay mom you seriously got to keep doing the ´´hahas´´ they are so funny in your letters! I love them. Do you see why they are so fun? Oh man.

I have a couple items of business first.

1- I am getting transfered this week to Godoy Cruz(zone), Villa del Parque(area). My comp is going to be Elder Layney (I don´t know how to spell it....). I heard he is cool and likes to work and so that is going to be awesome!!!! He was also attacked like a year ago and these drunk guys were trying to rob him and broke a pepsi bottle (glass) over his head and threw a bunch of rocks at him but he said he didn´t feel anything. Miracle? I think yes. I am going to be with a famous missionary! hahaha okay and

2- WE can skype for Christmas!!!! So I hope Lins and Dave have Skype. If not, no biggy, they can download it fo FREE and on Christmas day, I will just call you guys if I can find an open internet place. if not, we are allowed to do it at a members house. I am glad I leaving Cordón for this reason... no one has a computer and there aren´t internet places hahaha...

3- I didn´t eat anything too strange this week... :(

Thats all the big news I think.

This has been a great week. We had interviews with President Avila this last wednesday and that was great. We only do them every other transfer so its been 12 weeks since the last time I got to talk mano a mano haha. He really is called of God to lead this mission. I had a great experience with Him and the Holy Spirit. This made me want to learn more about the gifts of the Spirit and so that is something that I researched a little bit this week. Specifically, the gift of discernment. I have always wondered about that, and I realized that I didn´t really know what it meant. I have come to the conclusion, that it is an available ´´upgrade´´ after we understand how to ask for, recognize, and receive personal revelation. Fortunately, there is a chapter that talks a lot about that in Preach My Gospel and I learned much after reading.

Anyway that is just something that I was thinking about this week. I echo the plea found in Doctrine and Covenants 46:8, ¨seek ye earnestly the best gifts...´´ I know that every good gift comes from Christ, and in light of this Christmas season, I have much to be thankful for. I love you guys and I am so glad you are all going to be together for Christmas this year. This will have been the best Christmas for me since I can remember, knowing that you are all together. It will be better in a couple years when I get to be with you too, but just know that I couldn´t have asked for anything better than this- to be among our Argentine brothers and sisters while my whole family is celebrating together.

We had our branch Christmas party this last Saturday night and it was kind of a disaster. It was supposed to start at 7, but didn´t until 8, and the only priesthood leadership that was able to come was a young, less-active deacon. Our Christmas ´´dinner´´ consisted of the two sodas and facturas that I bought at the store next door and the pork rinds one of the Hermanas brought. The live nativity was great. The primary kids performed wonderfully and presented some of the cutest cows, donkeys and sheep I have ever seen in my life! I hope I didn´t sound whiny in describing the whole event, I did it with a smile and will always remember it in a positive light. Our Savior wasn´t born in a fancy hospital, and there were no professional doctors or nurses to help comfort Mary or Joseph and I would readily confess that the animals that surrounded His nativity weren´t cute and probably more unwelcome than the ones we had. But, the humble attempt of the Cordón Branch to pay homage to the birth of our Redeemer will always be in my heart. I feel that God looked down on that event with gratitude and happiness that His saints would be willing to truly sacrifice to worship His Son.

Anyway, tomorrow I will be spending the day passing by some investigators and then visiting some members in the afternoon and nighttime. It will definitely be hard to say goodbye to them. But the Church is true everywhere you go and I know I will find more saints in my next area.

I am just about to finish the Book of Mormon again. I just got done with 3rd Nephi and the account of Christ´s coming to the Americas has just gotten me more excited for this wonderful season. I love you all and I can´t wait to hear from you next week. Elder Daybell