Tracking 2 Brothers: CHRISTMAS IS OVER, BACK TO WORK! Dallin 12/28/2015

First off, I am so happy Christmas is over!

I wont lie, it was super hard to work last week. Everything feels normal again! I got a pretty rough fever on Wednesday with aching bones then I got a full body rash a little after Christmas!! Turns out I was bit by a little mosquito illness called sika. My companion had it earlier and I seem to have passed it like twice as fast!

We spent time caroling on Christmas Eve and passed out awesome cookies that the sisters made! Christmas eve was pretty fun. The FIREWORKS ARE INSANE. All fireworks are homemade here and they can be LOUD. I woke up to Gettysburg at midnight on Christmas. Bombs were going off and our walls were shaking! Supposedly New Years is going to be a ton crazier!

I got to Skype my family on Christmas and that was awesome!! Shout-out to every member of my family for being so supportive and loving! I love you guys! I got to talk to my brother Weston out serving his mission in Milwaukee! That was super awesome!!! He´s such an awesome guy!

We got back to work after all of the Christmas shenanigans.

On Sunday I had to give a talk in church! I talked on conversion and had to fill up time. I talked for about 20 minutes in SPANISH. I couldn't do that in English! Great confidence builder!

Today for P-Day we went to COPAN RUINAS which are ancient ruins from the Mayas. It was pretty neat. It's a touristy place a couple hours away from us so it was super weird to see so many American people. I am used to my companion and i being the only white guys in the whole city so it was odd! That's another thing, it is really weird being on the other side of the camera for tourists. We have tourism buses drive through my area with gringos taking pictures out the window and it is just ODD. I don't know how to explain it!

For my spiritual thought of the week I challenge all of you to go read your Patriarchal Blessing right now! Or as soon as possible. I wont lie, there have been times on the mission where I get super baggy ( homesick) but it never lasts more than a couple hours because I usually read my patriarchal blessing. They are amazing!

Hope you all have a fantastic week! Do something AWESOME!