12.27.10

Mom,
Hey it was so good to talk to you all and to hear your voices. It's hard to believe that this was my last Christmas phone call, sometimes it feels like serving a mission just doesn't end. On Friday we went
to a local orphanage and took some cookies and stuffed dolls for the kids. It was a pretty cool little place, they mostly handle babies from 0-3 so we got to play with the babies and feed them. It was
pretty cool, it's been a long time since I've fed a baby. Saturday we went to the couple's flat and exchanged gifts with each other and then we ate food. We bought a turkey and Sister Fox cooked it for us. It was good, we still have the beard, it's only about 2 1/2 inches long, not a trophy, but it did taste good! :) Sister Fox also made a couple pumpkin pies, not quite like your's mom, but it was pretty good. it's been the only one that i've had since i got here, so i enjoyed it. Sunday was good as well, some members got together and fed all four of us dinner. haha they had a bowl of chicken, cut up in chunks. I
pulled out what i thought was a drumstick, but it was hard like a bone, haha it took me a minute but i finally realized that it wasn't a drumstick, it was the head. kinda funny, but it tasted pretty good.
Today i finally got a hair cut, Elder Bakker helped me out. My hair was getting long, so now my head feels pretty light. i hope that you all have a Happy New year. Don't forget to make some good new year's goals/resolutions. I was reading Pres. Uchtdorf's talk, "of things that matter most" this morning. it was really good, it inspired me to focus on those small, simple and basic things that will help us to get
through difficult times. If we don't do the little things then the big things that we all wish to accomplish in our lives will be next to impossible. It's funny how simple and yet intracrit the gospel is. But i do know that this gospel is true and that if we will do the things that the Lord has asked us to do through his prophets, then we will be blessed. There is always a way to be obedient. Well i love you all, and i hope that you have a great week. until next year,
love
Elder Larsen

this is me pretending to kill christmas dinner. it would've been cool to slaughter a turkey with a panga ( the thing in my hands) but i think it would've made a
huge mess!