November

Suuuuuuuup family!!!!

Spiritual experiences...Because we are in such a small branch, I've been able to bless and pass the sacrament for the first time in my mission. That's been very cool. It made
me realize that I took that privilege for granted when I was younger and
wish I could do it again. As I passed, I felt a snes of unity with everyone
there. Because we are all in the same need of the Atonement. Whehter you're
the missionary passing or the less active member who hasn't come in 20
years. That was spiritual.

I've been moderately homesick but nothing extreme. I'm the only elder in
the house that has more than three months of the mission to go. These guys
are all "dying" as they call it. So they're all talking about their
girlfriends and families and (because of me) how they are going to watch
all of the Star Wars movies. I got them hooked on what i've told them but
they've never seen it. My guess is that they'll hate the originals and love
the prequals. Because latins don't care for classics or storyline as they
do action and cheesy drama. cough cough fastandfurious cough!

I would love something printed from the 3D printer. Star Trek Badge, or
whatever. i gave my other one away. Really just anything is fine with me.
I'm just happy you guys love me enough to send me anyhting haha ;) MY shoes
will probably hold up for another 2 or three months without getting any
super bad damage but around 4 or 5 before the ginat hole is there. So send
them when you feel it necessary. ;)

Love you mom!! Pray hard for us so that we can move into our new house and
be away from the other Elders.

Love
Elder Skinner and Elder Charlie

Hey! from Elder Charlie and Justin

HEyyyyyyyyyyy So I didn't write yesterday because it was a holiday (almost
every holiday is on a monday and I'm not joking either) so every internet
excpet one was closed. We finally find it about a half hour before we have
to start teaching and then (drumroll please) MYLDSMAIL WAS NOT WORKING!!!!!
🙌

So President gave us some time today. I really like the puppets Ian did for his Eagle project and the comments although it was super gross with all of the puns hahaha. Thanks
for that.

I got the package and Charlie has been a HUGE hit. (We sent him Charlie the puppet.)

We have been having a  lot of fun with him but I have to be careful how long I let some of the
other elders use him because he starts to say bad words after a while haha!
😒 Reeses peices are heaven. Dad said they were invented for ET and I want
to know if that's true.

I about cried eating nutella and Bananas 'cause it was so good.

So yeah! Last week was kind of lame when not counting the package part. We
live in a house of four and we are all pretty good friends so studying has
been super lame (that is, IF we studied) and the whole schedule is messed
up because of it.
So that's been really annoying. I've been kind of rude about it to the
other elders too. There is a need of change...

Dairon and Karen are doing super well and progressing slowly but surely.
Now Dairon is coming to young men activities to teach Parkour. The young
men love it. 

In other news, I'm well! I might give Charlie's shirt to Dairon and Karen's
son, Matias, so he can come to church in  a white shirt. I'll just find a Baby Colombian jersey. So funny. :)

Love you, mom! You're the greatest. Love getting your letters.

Love
Elder Charlie (and Justin)

I'm about to smash that cake into the birthday boy's face. 

The Skinner family Gang Sign

BETTER!!

I'm feeling perfect now. They gave me un poco de pastas (a ton of pills)
and now I'm feeling great and not pooping once and hour.

So we have been pretty busy and swamped this week. At least it feels like
it. D and K are going great and I'm super happy for them. I'm
super worried that they won't be able to get married.  But they are receiving
everything super well.

We sent off an elder whose mission call was too Barranquilla Colombia, but
due to an injury came to this mission to heal in Cerrito. He is incredible
and super hard working. But he went to the offices in Cali on Tuesday (the
first day that I was able to walk around normally) and forgot his suit
jacket. So we had to catch the next bus to Cali and take it to him. When we
got to the office, his family was there seeing him off and he challenged
them all to be baptized (he and his cousin are the only members). It was
super powerful and his mom surprised him by telling him that she had been
taking the missionary lessons and going to church and was totally ready for
baptism and she wanted him to do it that very same day. So he was the
happiest man ever. This huge black guy just bawling of happiness. Super
cool to see. His name is Elder Solis and is gong to be a stud in his
mission.

Things with the comp are good. He's pretty cool. We found a store that
sells Star Wars and Superhero stuff. Vamos a Comprar bobadas!!! But we
really need to move. It's so hard to keep focused and stick with the schedule when you have two other crazy elders who are living with you. We
have the house all ready to go but we have to wait for a month to move in.
STUPID!!!!


It's been a super uneventful week so I've got nothing to tell you... Next
week will be better. Love you mom!

Elder Skinner

OH! Another thing.
They officially banned soccer in the mission. And Basketball. Due to over
200 injuries in the area. So the Latinos are TICKED. We'll see a LOT of
breaking that rule haha..

SICK!!!

Don´t feel too bad about not writing. It gave me some time to download all
of the recordings you guys sent me :) I loved the recordings. And weirdly
enough, I wasn't the slightest bit sad about not being there. It just made
me feel like I was already there and really excited to go there when I´m
back.

So This week has been pretty uneventful in teaching because we were stuck
in the house for most of the week. But I´ll talk about that in a minute
haha. D and K might have some problems getting married. They are
both willing to do it but it´s some legal thing they have a problem with.
So we´ll have to wait... But D is really changing. He´s praying now
even though he´s never done that before in his life. He´s noticing really
good things happening in his life and likes what he is learning. He really
likes parkour and wants to start teaching the young men in the branch. I´m
suuuuuuper happy about that. :)

So being in the house...  Wednesday, Elder Romero got sick with a migraine
and so we couldn't teach all day. We were going good after that until
Saturday when during lunch, I started to feel a fever coming on and then
very unexpectedly crapped my pants. and yes i´m serious. HA! I didn't edit here!

It was just too horrible and funny not to leave in for everyone to read.

In Daniel's mission (Ecuador) they call that a Brown Out. POOR JUSTIN!

 But somehow we made it out of the house with out anyone knowing and took a 

taxi to the
house where we called Sister Pricoli who told me to rest and drink water.
But my fever shot up around 8:00 and she unexpectedly told us to come to
the hospital in Cali. So we get there at around nine and they hook me up to
an IV or whatever it´s called and I was there until 4:30 AM. They diagnosed
me with an infection in my intestines and I had to stay all of Sunday in
the offices. We got back to the house at around 11 this morning and my
fever is gone but I have the WORST diarrhea ever and have gone about 11
times today. I have medicine and a list of foods I can eat so i´ll get over
it but seriously. It´s been rough haha ;) And I´m not allowed to leave the
house to teach until Wednesday or until I feel better. So we´ll see how this
week goes. My comp has been a champ at taking care of me so I´m grateful
for that. I looked and smelled like a hobo by the time we got home cause I
hadn't showered or shaved. I looked EXACTLY like Ian did for Halloween but
I didn´t have a barbie haha.
Ian's Halloween Costume-Mental Patient

Love you guys! You´re my favorites!

Love
Elder Skinner