Happy late Thanksgiving...

Happy late Thanksgiving back!

Well first of all i guess i should tell you about my thanksgiving day. Well they actually told us not to work on Thanksgiving so it was literally a holiday which was weird. So we got up like normal and studied and got ready, then just sat around. It got really boring. So we went to the Varas home at 2:00. We hung out with there 4 sons for a while. Their oldest son is 15 and is REALLY into pokemon. I have to admit i felt really old when he talked about it. Because he trades pokemon online around the world, and there's about a bajillion pokemon now. I told him how i always played pokemon blue and red. He told me that he had seen pictures of those games and was really confused when i told him that they were black and white games. It was really strange.
But then we ate and ate and ate. They made a turkey wrapped in bacon (hallelujah). Then Sister Varas made biscuits from scratch, those were ridiculously tasty. Then we had yams, which were really good. Then all your other Thanksgiving goodies. Well we ate too much and didn't have any room for pie. So we took a break and went to beach, it was amazing! It was at sunset, there were maybe ten other people there. I got some really awesome seashells. Well after that fun trip we went back for pie. I practically had an entire blueberry pie to myself. I love pie.
Well after that we helped them put up Christmas decorations. I have to admit it felt really good to put together a Christmas tree with a family. After that we played stratego with the oldest son. I played him first and was completely ruthless! Actually he almost beat me but i got lucky. Then Elder Friel played him and lost, it was funny.

By the way, have i mentioned that Elder Friel plays football for the U of U? Thats why he's going home a few days earlier, so keep your eye out for him.

Besides Thanksgiving i have to admit that it was a pretty slow week. We really couldn't get that many lessons. And all of the people that we thought were doing great we haven't been able to get back in contact with them. Plus it's been rough with it getting dark so early. People just don't like you knocking on the door when it's dark (even though it's only 5:30).

I've been using that camera alot, too much actually. When you use a camera like i do you just eat through the batteries. But on the bright side i have about 80 pictures/videos of me. So that should make everyone alot happier than my last memory card. Actually one video i even give a tour of the house which i think is funny. But that's just cause i'm (humbly) funny.

Church on Sunday was really great. Except a lot of people weren't there because they were out of town for Thanksgiving. But I'm at this point were i know everyone in the ward. It's great because it feels just like home. Except a lot of people talk differently, and they're not all telling me that i need a haircut.

As for games, i think Phase 10 would be okay. We could play that on Pdays. Right now we have a chess set, so i'm getting pretty good. Because honestly, we're running out of things to do on Pday.

But i'm really excited to hear y'all at Christmas
Love y'all!
Elder K Olsen