Merry Christmas from Elder Hyde

Well last week was a pretty slow week but we are still doing great so I am really happy. Last P-day Elder Maughan and I got matching Duck Dynasty ties! They are super awesome and my new favorite tie :) That night we taught this crazy guy that looked like a Hispanic Albert Einstein haha He said he loves learning about religions and showed us huge bags of books from different religions that he has read. We tried to give him a pamphlet and he said this is baby stuff where is the real stuff. So we gave him a Book of Mormon and he told us that was more like it haha funny guy. He told us to come back with lots of scriptures ready but when we went back he wasn't there. Wednesday we had an awesome district meeting on the Holy Ghost and went to Buffalo Wild Wings because 3 people in our zone "died"(finished their missions) and that was their last wish. It was way good! That night we found some new people to start teaching but they weren't too interested so I hope they are there when we go back. We got to talk with Zaira's dad, Armando. He has some friends he wants us to talk to because of the amazing change he has seen in his daughter, he wants the same change for others. We also had a sweet lesson with Paniagua and it finally clicked for them that God has a body of flesh and bones. It is awesome to see people actually understand what we teach and see that "lightbulb" turn on in their head. Thursday we had our Christmas Party with about a third of the mission. It was super fun and we got to sing tons of hymns and watch Despicable Me which was really funny but really weird watching a movie...haha We also had a super awesome lunch and then we watched Joy to the World and President Bowen and his wife shared their testimonies about Christ and it was a really nice relaxing party :) After the party we went and helped this lady in our ward hang up lights and helped another lady move. Friday with weekly planning, facebook, and the ward Christmas party not a ton happened except for all of the people that told us would come to the party didn't show, but oh well. Saturday we got to teach Luis and his family and they fed us Strawberry Tamales! I didn't know they even existed but she made pineapple, strawberry, cinnamon, and two normals kinds and even though we had dinner right after we had to try some haha During dinner we got a call from the bishops wife to go sing at her daughters fairwell party and so we ate really quick and got over there to sing Called to Serve in front of the whole ward. When we got to the church we saw these kids huddled around another kid and all of their bikes in the road so we went to see if we could help them. The kid had crashed on his bike going down a big hill and landed on his face. His face was covered in blood and he had some crazy road burn on his back and leg that burned through his clothes to his skin. We helped him into the church to clean up and it was crazy, he had a major concussion and we called his dad to take him to the hospital. His dad saw him and just said "If you would have been wearing the helmet I bought you!" haha The kid should be alright tho. Then we had to go sing haha Sunday was pretty normal. Elder Maughan was feeling pretty sick tho so we stayed in to let him rest. Yesterday was fun, we got to go caroling and had our last 2 hour facebook training. I'm super excited to skype my family tomorrow! Merry Christmas :) Love you all! Elder Hyde