Hope you´re enjoying the Christmas season!

It´s funny how you titled your email "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!" Here, it just seems to be getting hotter, as if Summer were just recently approaching. The work is marching well here, in El Tambo! We had the baptism of a young man, this week. His mom is now an activated member and his father is to be baptized in January, because of work. Also, we started teaching the Pentionista´s aunt, this week. We didn´t even know she was her aunt at first, her being simply a contact. Our pention´s father was, at one point, the Stake President, and the Pentionista has a strong belief that he, having passed away, is having a strong influence on her family´s conversion, now.

My favorite memory, aside from the baptism, this week, was yesterday, as we were prostiliting. We were knocking on the door of an appointment, when an old man, slightly drunk, came up to us and started thanking us for our service. He was very nice, and he said the missionaries used to teach him, when he was younger. He then sang to us an old traditional Peruvian song, looking deep into the eyes of each one of us, but I could not for the life of me make eye contact with this man for fear of laughing. The oddest part is that it was a rather romantic song, and he seemed to be singing it with such passion to us. So, we invited him to church, of course. The member we had accompanying us was not even phased. Did I ever tell you about the drunk man that kissed me on the cheek in Carhuamayo?

I love you all so much and hope you´re enjoying the Christmas season!

Much love,

Elder Alexander

My companion is LOCO.

The neighbor's dog finally bit me! (Don't worry, He's not diseased. Just a jerk.)