Video chat 12/30

We chatted while Caleb was at a barber shop. Notice the NYC skyline in the background! He said it’s everywhere ;-)

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

Alrighty. Happy new year everyone. Hope you have had some wonderful celebrations. I sure have and it's been great. 

We did some actual service at a catholic church for Dia de Los Reyes. They're the Spanish equivalent of Santa or so I understand. So we got to give gifts to kids the whole time through a foundation here. It was great!

We also had the baptism of one of our friends Maria. It was amazing and it has been great to work with her and see all of the faith she has and I've loved being a part of her progress. It was her birthday too! So we threw a party and was quite a day. 

We also took one of our recent converts to the temple for the first time. I love getting to go to the temple and having one so close. We will also get to go on the 24th with Maria and I'm really looking forward to it. 

Today was Dia de Los Reyes and that is the cake thing everyone here eats. It's pretty big and we just got it gifted to us   So we'll see what happens... Everything was closed today so it was pretty chill and we didn't really go anywhere or do anything crazy, but we did have an awesome lesson with one of Maria's friends. 

So yeah. There you have it. I'm super happy to be here and to have met all of these wonderful people and have all these experiences. 

I wish the best to all of you!

Love,

Elder Larchar

I hope this works

It's been a short week, so I'm just gonna smash everything in here and hope it sends. 😊

So Christmas was great and it just makes talking to people a lot easier. They're more open and it's great. Plus they keep on celebrating until Jan 6th or something like that. So it's a good time. And as you can see in the picture down yonder, this place is just flowing with people. The streets are crazy, but it's cool to see. This morning we just roamed around and did some shopping at Primark which is the largest store I've ever been in. Sorta like a mall, just squished. We went as a district and all got cute matching ties... picture to come maybe. Then to finish off the festivities we went to Five Guys. It was really good. But as I was ordering the lady kept trying to explain to me that the large fries were for 4 people. Either my Spanish isn't as good as I thought or she didn't think I understood cuz she kept going. But in the end, I got my big old cajun fries and all was well in the land. We decided to make some German pancakes this week. Mostly because that was all the food we had left. But for how uncontrollable our oven is, it went pretty well. But yeah. It's been fun. And we'll see what happens for new years. 

Have a good one. Love you all,

Elder Larchar