Sorry I didn´t write yesterday. This city
only has two lan houses [places to email] and both were closed :P Got permission from
prezident to email today.
I really enjoyed talking to you all on Christmas! We ate a small dinner at the member´s place right after I stopped skyping you. Glad the rest of Christmas was good for you.
Ha ha ha! I´m sorry I missed the family white elephant gift party; your story cracked me up!
I´m super jealous about you guys seeing the Hobbit and Into the Woods! Catriel and I have a movie marathon planned for when I get back, so I guess we´ll have to add those to the list.
I
totally forgot it was my birthday this morning. I was looking at
our calendar, writing down who we´d be lunching with for the week and I
looked at my watch to see what day it was today and it said the 30th. For a second I was like, ``... there´s something about the 30th that has
significance, but I´m not sure what it -- OH MAN! IT´S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY;
WHAT??´´ Ha ha!
I
do not feel any older; maybe a little tired, but not older.. I'm 21 years old now. The drinking age here is like twelve, so there´s
nothing special about age 21 to Brazilians!
I'm reminded of the time Dad
and I were driving along and then Dad said, `` Oh hey; it´s your
birthday today! Happy Birthday.´´ I had completely forgotten it was my birthday that time
too.
I guess my driver's license is dead now; looking forward to getting another one 
ha ha NOT.
We´ll probably stay for the evening at one of the member's houses tomorrow for New Year's. I´m sure the people here will light off more fireworks and blare their car horns incessantly to celebrate.
Glad you´re all doing well and that I was able to talk to you all on Christmas! Looking forward to Mother´s Day when I can do it again! :)
I got you a nativity, Mom; just trying to figure out how best to send it back to the states :)
Love you Mom! Thanks for all you do for me! Talk to you next week.
Elder Duffin
