Querido Family y Friends,Hola Hola! Man what a fun week huh?? Happy New Years!! I cannot believe it is already here. The Nicas celebrate the new years with FIREWORKS. a ton of fireworks. I am sending a few pictures of me and "El Viejo" Or the Old Man. I guess that is a saying in the states too right? like the old man is dying and a baby is being born or something? Im actually still not sure if its a saying or a old tradition or what. Whatever. Anyways every household (who can afford it) makes a scarecrow like thing and then fills it chalk full of fireworks. And then at Midnight they all blow them up. So....I totally went to bed at the usual 10:30 and then at midnight i thought a war broke out or something. It was SO LOUD!! Like the explosions started and the next thing i knew i was out of my bed and panicking! ...I dont acually remember getting up--it super scared me! Oh Well.......Also for new years we had 3 dinners!! Like thats all everyone wanted to do is feed us. oh and i accidentally drank some alcohol.(do you like how i just snuck that in there?)---- LET ME EXPLAIN.--- One of our active members who comes every week, Fransisco, gave me some eggnog. And i took a little swig when He gave it to me and then i heard Ruiz say-"This smells funny!" oops. Then Fransisco was like "There is only a little bit of Alcohol in it.-8 ounces!" Okay, I dont know alot about cuantity of alcohol--but that sounds like A TON to me!!! ah well. You live and learn. :D I believe it was a transgression because i didnt know it was in there. Yup. Case closed. haha.So what else is going on in good old Nicaragua? not a whole lot. I made some goals this week. Lets talk about that. :D Elder M. Russell Ballard said that we make goals so that we can step by step achieve our divine potential. He Said without goals we can never become the people that God knows we can be. So to set goals we should ponder what we want to become, and then we set goals accordingly to become that person.And then We Pray, and promise Heavenly Father we will do all we can to achieve these goals. These worthy Goals. M. Russel Ballard also said-"If your goals are righteous, then go for them." Then with help of Heavenly Father, We practice self discipline and fight to make our goals realities. And then He said this "We have to have faith. We have to have faith in God. We have to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And oh, how desperately we have to have faith in ourselves." Have faith that you can change. With the Atonement of Jesus Christ and some self discipline- everyone can change. Sure, It will be hard--but you can do it. Everyone has room to be better. SO....i hope everyone has set their goals for 2012! How wierd is it that I will be in the mission field for THE ENTIRE YEAR?! super wierd. Im kinda wigging out about it! It is going to be a great year though. I hope you all have a great week! Love you all!!-Hermana Barrett
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