Letter from January 2nd

hahahaha Mom, I LOVED all of the pictures!!! It made me want to be home for Christmas and experience the chaos! And I just realized that literally everyone was home for Christmas except for me, gosh dangit! And don't worry, I had plenty of time to look at the photos because we've reached that point in the mission where only you and dad and Justin Hubbard write me on a weekly basis haahahahha what a life! Every once in a while one of my brothers or sisters writes or a friend from the mish who's already gone home, but thats about it, and honestly I'm fine with that. Life is good and CRAZY here in Orquidário, but good! We've been working SUPER hard to try and find people, but it is pretty different being in the middle of the city on the beach. Everyone is just pretty much naked all the time and lets just say I am soooo sick of seeing men in speedos. Imagine downtown Sydney and trying to enter in apartment buildings...haha its interesting. But, I'm having to learn to trust in and dedicate ourselves to working with members, because thats the only way we'll see success here. My companion Sister Ñiquen is from Peru and SO SWEET and funny and nice and works HARD. She has a sweet scar on her neck like Moniques from when she had to remove her thyroid and has actually a lot of health problems, but NEVER uses anything as an excuse to relax or slack off, so she's awesome and super loving, which is good when it comes to working with the sisters. The best part is that she has the loudest laugh and you know that I also tend to yell when I'm laughing, so we make quite the pair! 

Life is good, I'm healthy and happy, with only that one strange pain on the muscles on my back and I'm sooo tan already hahahah summer has arrived and WOW it is just so hot constantly. What a life! LOVE YAS!