Dec 17

FELIZ NATAL!!!
I am so happy to be serving this month! It is a great month to preach the gospel. Last Saturday, we had a fireside about the missionary work to help the members understand their place and how they can help strengthen the ward. Only 9 members showed up, but it ended up turning out really well. We received a lot of references and have already contacted them all. I´m excited to get these members working with our member lessons teaching their referrals!
With this last transfer, I stayed here with Sis. Bulhoes and two other sisters moved in. Sister Reynolds from Aurora, UT, and Sister Aguiar (fresh from the CTM) who is a gaucha. We are having a lot of fun together! The cleaning of the house got done a lot quicker with 4 sisters so that was nice. Sister Reynolds plays the flute, piano, and sings too so we´re having a lot of fun. Today we´re going to play basketball together with some members.
Sorry, Mom and Dad. I didn´t know I wasn´t supposed to open that til Christmas. I´ll wait with the other ones I promise! Thanks to Mom, Dad, Natalie, Matt, Kelly, and Becky for the packages I received. I loved them! I especially loved the pictures, Nat. Thanks!
Dad—Our cell phone is 9989-9016. That plan sounds great. Let me know what you end up working out. I´m pretty flexible.  Dad—I´ve been hearing some rumors about banks closing, etc in the US. I know I shouldn´t worry, but I just wanted to make sure my CDs are safe. Do you think it´d be better to just take the money out of the banks and keep it in a safe or something? Anyways, I trust you.
Mom—Are you printing off the emails from my missionary friends? I´d really like to receive some of those snail mail if at all possible. I know you´re busy. Also, when you get a minute, could you send me the recipie for those cookies you made the first time at the CTM? They are like chocolate, oatmeal bars I think. :)
A special thanks to: Rob, Laura, Kit, Joy, Mick for their emails this week. And as always, thanks to Mom, Dad, Spencer, Kelly, Becky, and Grandma for their weekly emails. I really love hearing from you all.
I´m really excited for you Mick! Start preparing now and study Preach My Gospel!
URGENT: My inbox is at 92% and only to get more full! I need one of my loving family members to go in to my inbox and delete all the forwards, mission journals, doubled emails (sometimes people sent it twice), etc. I would be most grateful if someone could do this for me. My email is rellis7@myldsmail.net and my password is missionary14. Thanks! Whoever does it, it would be nice to start printing off the emails to have a hard copy of them after my mission. (But that´s just extra for right now) The main crisis is cleaning out the inbox. I would do it, but I only have an hour a week, and there isn´t enough time to clean it out and read emails, send my relatorio, and send emails to y´all. Note: You have to delete the email and then purge it to get it out of my inbox. Thanks!
Love, Sister Ellis III