Dec 28,15

What an awsome way to step up the christmas prank! (He is referring to us hiding a gift under McOmbers tree of a santa Jesus nativity)And a very clever way to do it too! They'll never find out how it was done :) And thank you so much for your advice for what I should do. I will do my best to apply it so that we can improve! 

I love the chance I had to talk to you guys! It was so much fun and so awesome! I loved being able to actually see you guys and talk with you and everything! I ican't wait until the next time!

How Awesome! I love the pictures and the wonderful picture that Megan drew for our cousins. It is a true master piece. It was so wonderful to talk to you all on Christmas Eve! It was so great to see you all! To actually talk to you guys! How great that they all got presents for everybody! It seems like after I left everyone became better people... but I'm sure that there's no actual relation between the two things. Right?

Another thing, I'm still not convinced that I have an accent. I think you're just messing with me. There is no way that after 8 months I have an accent! Although that would be cool... Can you imagine what it'd be like after 2 years? Wow! Crazy thought!

In the internet you can probably find this video: It's called "Concierto Navidad 2013". From Chile with David Archuleta. It has loads of the Mexican Culture and their songs and stuff. I Love It! It's a bit over an hour long, but totally awesome!

We got snowed out Saturday! We got about 9-12 inches dumped on us! It started out for a few hours just drizzling and raining a bit, but aroung 6:00 it turned into a bit of snow that continued through the night. Plain snow would've been wonderful, but with the water underneath it got ugly. Loads of slush and wet feet. On Sunday, Church got canceled and our President confined us all to our houses. However, W were already at church by the time they told us. In our sacrament meeting it was just us 4 missionaries, our 1st counselor and stake president (he's in our ward). Even their families stayed home! So we had a quick meeting and took the sacrament, and afterwards went to visit various members that needed our help. around 2, we went back home and my comp slept while I watched mormon messages (about a thousand times!) while playing solitaire. Seriously, Solitaire for 5 hours straight!!!! I'm basically a pro now, but I'm super sick of it. so today I taught my comp how to play war and scum. so we'll have fun the next time we get confined to our house. fortunately, we were given loads of tamales by the members on christmas, so we had a wonderful Lunch! And dinner! and breakfast! And we still have more! My companion is a bit sick of them (actually, he got sick), but not me! And we still have posole too!

So anyways, that was our Christmas! The Members are wonderful and always give us loads of food during the holidays. Thank you so much for sending me thermic clothing and a deck of cards! Those two things saved me from death!

I want to send you pictures of everything, but I can't! Next week I'll send you loads of them!

I love you so super duper much!

Elder Phillips

Have a happy new year!