December 26, 2011

I loved talking to you all. I hope you guys had a great christmas. Mine was a good one! After I got done talking to you we ate at a members house. She gave us dinner with the rest of her familiy. It was great! It reminded me of home. I am going to send you some photos that I took this week. We have a new member of the family. Rosie haha that is very exciting.

So we went to Manaus monday. We left at about 6 it took about 14 hours to get to Manaus. We arrived in Manaus a little bit late. This place is called Ciggs- it's a zoo / military base. So we arrived and they had already started. They had this big room where president spoke and the rest all of the zones in Manaus sang a couple of Christmas songs or did a musical type thing. After we ate lunch, then walked around and checked out all of the animals. It was a regular zoo I took some pictures, but they didn't turn out very good because the fence was in the way. After that we talked a little bit more and we went straight to the bus station to return to Boa Vista. Yeah, almost three days with out taking a bath and there was 12 of us, luckly the bus had a pretty powerful  air condicioner.

The visit to Manaus was very quick. I was hoping we would see the temple, but it was good to see all of the missionaries. 

This year is a new year time to make new goals. President has made some goals for the mission now that we are preparing for the temple dedication. It will be good to see what this new year will bring. 

I was so glad that I got to see you guys 

love you all 

elder ontiveros