We are in Segovia today, by the way. We had to do piso checks and I wanted to visit. The elders in Segovia live in a different piso than when I was here with Elders Jensen and Peterson. We are emailing right near the aquaduct. It is so nostalgic to be back. There is snow in the mountains, and it is as cold as I remember it was. It is interesting to be back going to the pedido mail meetings again, and piso checks and locutorios checks and stuff.
Thanks to Ginny and Joe for a Christmas email. I really loved it. It was a way good long one. Also thanks to Merkie and Gary, Grandma Judy, Evan, and to Dotty again.
Wow, a White Christmas, a wedding and a family party or two, what a week. I was sad to hear about Keith Warshaw, I always loved getting dragged along to their house with you. Thanks for keeping things going well at home with school and life so there isn’t a worry about you all. I love you all so much and hope you had a great week.
We get a ton of referrals in our area. Like, we got 7 in the last two days from other elders. We turn in like 20 plus weekly to other areas. We went to the Joseph Smith movie with 2 recent converts, who brought 2 investigators and 1 menos activo. Leonardo a new investigator, who has a baptismal date, came as well. Manuel Robledo is doing well and quitting his vices. I saw the temple Christmas lights when we went to the movie.
I got to talk to the guy who is coming to the U.S. for school. He is the Executive Secretary, I think. He is awesome. His name is Luis Huerta. He brought a non member friend to the Ward Christmas party the Friday before Christmas. He offered to deliver my package to you, but we only had Sunday night to get it to him, and we couldn’t work it into the schedule. So I will send the package the normal way in a bit. I love the Ward, and the Ward Christmas party was awesome with a huge buffet 4 tables long. Also, there were 7 of the investigators from our area and 3 menos activos, which was awesome for fellowshipping.
We had 3 great Christmas meals last week, well 4. First, on Christmas preparation day we cooked 2 chickens as a piso and made mashed potatoes and gravy, and it was awesome. Also we had 2 roast roosters that were fattened up and raised for the Christmas season meals. They were cooked with bacon on top, in a bed of potatoes and onions, and stuffed with pine nuts, jamon, hard boiled eggs and spices - just succulent. We also had soup to start-jamon and egg, followed by La Mancha queso, the best, and jamon, salchichon, chorizo, and lomo, the main Spain deli meats. Then we had the main course - poularda, and then dessert cookies and brownies, we made, and tons of Spanish desserts like turron, candied fruits, polvoron (cinnamon flavored things that are dusty, and so you crush them in the rapper before you eat them, and then some cakes. It was all from a recent convert Spaniard in our area named Andres de Batres, just a saint. He is super kind. Then we had paella and cornbreadish stuff from Paraguay called "sopa" which means soup here, but cheesy cornbread in Paraguay. I don’t know why. The meal we cooked was for Christmas Eve lunch. Andres’ feast was on Christmas Eve night, and Christmas day lunch was the paella and bread we had for dinner. Christmas night, right before the phone call, we had soup with chicken, and my companion’s serving looked like he got an extra special part of the chicken foot. They sell the whole feet, but it looked like his had been cut off just above the dedos, so there weren’t like claws or toe/finger things. Then we had fried chicken with mixed vegetables that were all red from some kind of weird sauce, and then pizza. So it was over the top on both of our dinner meals, and on all of them really, but it was a good Christmas.
Thanks for everything.Have a great week.
I love you all.
Much love from Segovia.
Elder Miller
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