Christmas Day!!!

So we got to talk to Shawn on christmas. He sounded very good! He had a stuffy nose because he has a cold but other than that he sounded good. Matured too! but it was fun to hear from him. He doesn't know if he will be staying in Pachuca or if he will be leaving back to Tecamac or somewhere else. He is kind of lost right now. We will find out on Monday because he should know by then where he will be going.
Well, just to give you the jist of it all, we called a member's house to get a hold of him. We talked for about an hour or until we thought our phone card had finished all of its minutes. Like all the other calls, my mom asked a lot of questions and we got to say somethings but for the most part we listened until the very end. Um.. not all sure what to say because it was a very random conversation between if he has gained weight to how his socks are holding up to how he only missed kyle and nobody else. NOT EVEN ANNI! or ME for that matter! why am I typing this up for him then?!! oh well, so yeah he is doing great! oh anni joined us for his conversation. It was fun! So anyways he says all is well and that he is working hard. He couldn't remember that it was Thursday so that's a good thing. OH he had a baptism that day! The elders in the area had been trying to find a day that would work to get this guy baptized but with work and everything they just couldn't get in the time to baptize him. So on Christmas he was not working and they decided to baptize him. So they had that later on in the day. Also Shawn told us that between all the Mexico City mission, his has the most number wise with baptism and everything. Most successful! that is what i am going for! So yeah good job missionaries!
So yeah, the phone call was great! just thought i would share a little bit about it. We will hear from him again on monday and talk to him on mothers day! :) anyways this is shay signing off!

December 24, 2008

Okay so today is p day, and tomorrow is Christmas. (K, so from what shawn said is that they celebrate more of Christmas eve then actual Christmas. That is why he had his p-day on Christmas eve then that Monday or even Christmas day. Just to clear that up with everyone.) The calling will work as followed, (yay!!! we get to talk to him!! YAY!! about time he told us what was going on!) I will give the number to call, then you will call me at about 9:30 your time in which it will be 10:30 here so yeah. Sounds like every one is have fun. Happy Birthday Tyler! Oh i forgot, so on friday night we get a phone call from the district leader who says that i need to pack all of my stuff, because I am going to Pachuca, which is like an hour from where I was in Tecamac, and I will also hlep being a zone leader but only for one week just until the changes so we will see what will happen. Transfers are on the 30th so yeah. So I am in Pachuca, with Elder King from New Mexico. He is pretty cool. Lets see here oh on Saturday we had a little thing called "Centro paralas visitantes" basically it is just like the visiter center in the States. That was fun because for like 4 hours all of the missionaries in the zone got paired up with a young man and went out to contact people and try to bring them in to the program that we had for them, So it was cool. Also on friday night there was the ward christmas party, also played some football americano, (or in our world, football) it was fun. Along with that we got our packages today, so I got the blanket and the other package with more gifts inside, so yeah thanks!! So yeah don't really have anything else to say, but that you are calling me tomorrow at this number: 123456789012 (sorry folks, don't want some fans of shawn the judd crash larsen trying to call him while he is in mexico right now.) So yeah if the time doesn't work with you then oh well, but it should. Well I guess I will tell a little bit about Pachuca. It is a bit colder then Tecamac but not by much, and here, there are a lot of hills, because we basically live on mountain side. So we have to walk downhill and uphill to get to places. Although it is cleaner here then Tecamac like in the streets and stuff. Here is also more of a modern area, well more then Tecamac. Like in Tecamac they have a lot of crappy (exuse his language there) old cars, here are more newer and nicer ones, so I am sure I will see more differences in other areas. So yeah here, Chrismas is not celebrated that much, but the 6th of January is. It is called Kings Day, so yeah that is more like their Christmas. So it doesn't fell like Christmas because of that, also people are still working today and maybe tomorrow also. Although a lot of people if not all have a Christmas tree, so yeah. Okay now I really don't have anything more besides now I am going Christmas Caroling with some people in the zone. So yeah the number is 123456789012, about 9:30 your time. Okay love ya!

Elder Larsen

December 15, 2008

So you saw me in the Church News huh? It must have been when we were helping the temple open house or something like that, because I don't remember any picture that was taken so yeah that's cool.
Why did you kill Elmo?!!!? (kyle and Shay killed elmo at a comedy club. Just to clarify that.) He is my friend, mi mejor amigo! Oh well. Oh yeah I was wondering about the snow and stuff because here is just hot, and no snow. (rambles for a minute) This past week has been good, we had a baptism yesterday which went well. She had a lot of sins so I had to baptize her like 3 times. I don't know why it didn't work the first two times. So yeah It went well.
Lets see here, my comp is going home next week on tuesday. Oh we made the turkey dinner that you sent me, and it turned out pretty good, but it wasn't enough for 4 missionaires. (no because we sent enough for two... hmmm...) With the apple pie filling we put it on top of the corn bread and it was really good. So thanks for ssending it to me!!
Oh yeah so one of our investigators told us one that he has seen aliens and people floating. It was weird. I don't quite remember how we got on that subject or how his story relates to the Gospel so yeah, I think we were talking about baptism and stuff and how you don't need to know everything before baptism, but just need to have fatih. OH YEAH that was it then he went on how with more knowledge you are able to float and things like that so it was weird. Well that is about it actually so not to much, because it is Christmas here to and people have a lot of work and everyone here works for themselves whether it be clothes, tacos, music, or whatever it may be. Everyone is selfemployed.
So before we made the corn bread, we were wondering how we were going to make it because another strange cultural thing is that the oven is just a place with space to put stuff like cooking stuff, so it was chuck full with pots and things so what we decided to do was to make it in a pot, make sure the flames were low, and put a lid on top and it turned out pretty good. It cooked all the way through. Well yeah that is it for me. Love ya!!!

Elder Larsen who is now famous

ps. I MISS YOU MOMMY!!!

(k to explain that is that last week, shawn told he missed everyone (even the pets) except for mom, he didn't list her. So she went on a strike this past week and didn't write shawn until he told her that he missed her too. So there you have it and we will try and keep things updated better! :) )

Getting no where......

k, so I've decided that (that is Shay that is saying this) I am going to start with Shawn's most recent emails because i will never catch up and so if you want to hear how he has been in the whole that there will be talk to me, Anni or anybody that is in the Larsen family. Then you can know what is going on. So yeah it wasn't going anywhere so we will try it this way to stay up to date! (ha ha keep trying right?)