Happy New Years!

I´m sure that everyone had a great and excited New Year´s

Celebration! MJ and HE even beat mine with there quiet

movie night. I was in bed asleep by a little after 10:30 only

to be woken up at midnight by fireworks going off right

outside my window. I found out that night that I can keep

my calm in the middle of a bombing raid and fall back

asleep within 5 minutes. My companions weren´t so lucky.

I guess the fireworks were pretty bad for about 30 minutes

or so. I´ve been blessed to be able to sleep through anything...

especially since my companion snores. Lol

The partying for the New Year was the next day. Our

Pday was moved to Friday so we had a bbq and played soccer

which was lots of fun. Maybe when I come home I´ll have

learned some sweet foot work skills. I´m begining to

realize how fat and out of shape I´m getting. Yoga just

doesn´t do the same thing as running does. Lol! But my

companion said that she will run with me in the mornings

if we starts slow. Starting tomorrow we´re going to try to

loose our round shapes and get healthier shapes.

We got to go to the temple today. It was great. We weren´t

suppose to get to go until next transfer but because Sister

Pradera can go once a month but she can´t go by herself

we got to go along with her. But the thing is she and Sister

Vieira got transfered yesterday. So we sent our pleas to

President and he said we could go too. So we went and

had a marvelous time. We had to wake up at 5 am to get

there on time but all is well and we made it there and back

safe and without getting lost once.

Up until now I have gone through 6 companions and I´m

on my 7th in only 5 months. That sounds a little bad but

I´ve had one trio and one quartet. Ever heard of a quartet

before? Usually they would split them up into 2

companionships but we were a quartet. Kinda fun. But

now I´m just with the one sister. Sister Da Silva from

Rariama. I don´t think I spelled it right. She reminds me

of Becky cause she´s always cold. She used to live just a

little bit above the equator so she´s used to 40+ celcius...

whatever that is...

Our shower head has been in the process of breaking

for the past 2 weeks. You can adjust the temperature

by moving a little nob on the side. Sometimes the hot

water would stop so I would move the little nob and it

would work again. My companions weren´t so smart

as me. I didn´t realize it until it was too late. In the

mornings I always heard someone hammering and I

figured that someone was working on a house nearby.

Then one morning I realized the hammering only started

when one of my comps was taking a shower. Turns out

they were hitting the shower head with a brush everytime

the heat went out. Lol! But that didn´t work so they always

just took a cold shower. Then it broke. I asked why they

didn´t just wiggle the nob like a normal person and then

we measured how high they could reach and I´ve got a

good hand-span on all of them. Lol! But we gave the elders

a service project so it all turned out good with us having a

warm shower until this morning when I was taking a

shower and the power went out so I had to finish with

the icy water again.

I hope that everyone has started off the New Year well

and everyone enjoyed their break from working. Take

care and have fun. I miss you all and love you all lots and lots!

Love,
Shelle