December 28, 2014: Still Dreaming of a White Christmas

December 28, 2014: Still Dreaming of a White Christmas

Not that I had a lot of faith that we could have a white Christmas. It did snow Christmas day ten years ago, but before that it had been 100 years since it snowed in the Rio Grande Valley. If it did snow, everything would shut down. All it takes is a little rain and temperatures below 60 degrees for the entire population to go into lock down.

I almost shed tears of joy when I opened this present.
It's back and better than ever! Probably the third best Christmas present imaginable. Number 1: The birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who conquered death and made it possible for all that's wrong in the world to be made right. And number 2: Skyping home with the fam. Good times.
We waved to some dudes while biking home one night, and one of them made a chicken noise at us. Like, "Bu-gawk!!!" really loud. I was speechless.
"Hey bro, bet you won't make a chicken noise at em." ... "Dude, did you see their faces?!?"

Which reminds me of a joke. ¿Qué dijo un pollo mexicano al otro? ... ¡Vente pa' acá!

I got my first flat tire since I started a year and a half ago yesterday. Look how excited I was.
We still haven't cleaned up all the discarded wrapping paper, we won't stop listening to Christmas music until January, We have enough leftover tamales in the fridge and candy in our cupboards to last until February, and the Christmas trees are probably staying up forever. But the thing is, we don't need all these things to keep the Christmas Spirit with us all year long (although candy does help). All we need is to pray for and strive to develop love and charity for all the people that surround us, and we'll be merry e'rry day.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year, vatos!!!
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Elder Dylan Young