So to finish off the story we had to climb up on the roof and go through the hole, i got cut on my face a little bit from glass but it all went well and it was a once in a life time experience. A neighbor had a car so we took him to the hospital in that, he was laying down in the bed of the truck screaming, it was a little funny because he was using a lot of bad words but it was sad. I'm excited to Skype, Tace and i have been talking about how we will do it and we have a pretty good plan, i just have to put a specific day and hour with him and he will get it all set up on your part. 

This last week was a good week for us, Christmas is an interesting time here in El Salvador. It is full of parades, parties, fireworks and drunk people. Pretty much everyday where i am there is a dance party or some type of party that makes it interesting and hard to work because none of the members or investigators are in their houses due to the parties. The attendance in church was really low as well so this whole month with be a month of suffering for the church but its all good. So these past two months i have been reading the Book of Mormon and i finished it in exactly two months and it was amazing. My plan is to read it every 4 months in the future which is a very reachable plan, i have learned a lot these past two months and this last week i started to read it in Spanish again and hopefully will finish before the next general conference. Also this last week we had a Christmas party in the house of the mission president and here is a picture of one of the things we did. We did a little scavenger hunt and for a picture we had to take one with every ones feet off the ground so i decided to be the main part in this picture ;) I hope you like it. 

Cole

Mom-

It sounds like it was a good week for you in the office, the things you tell me are really interesting to hear and i like to share them with my companions and friends that are here with me and they all get a good laugh from them. You don't have to clean any of the messes up do you, or is it just the nurses? Like you i had a good experience that probably will never happen again in my life but ill get to that later. I don't have my release date but i think it will be in the last week of June but I'm not fully sure. I have done some calculations on a calender of 2013 that i have and I'm pretty sure its the last week of June but ill double check when i get back to my house and ill let you know next week.

You don't think you can cook but i miss your food so much i don't think you could comprehend it. The food here is good don't get me wrong but i miss your home cooked cookies, chicken Alfredo and a bunch of other things! When i come home i will be so happy to eat your food! I'm glad you get to stay dirty for a couple of days, i wish i could not shave for a couple of days but that's not allowed, when i get home I'm going to grow a fat moustache i think.

It will be cool being a trainer, I'm not right now but i will be in a week and a half. It turns out that my companion has had problems with his visa so he isn't here yet so I'm with another companion until the 20 of this month when he comes in. Right now I'm with an Elder named Elder Escalante from the Dominican Republic. This is my first companion from there and he is very interesting, i never get bored so that's a good thing. He tells the most wild stories and if they are true he has not lived a normal life. So Sunday night we were on our way home and we were about to walk into our neighborhood when a man comes out yelling for help so me and my companion started running to where he was and we found out that a drunk man had climbed on top of an abandoned house and he fell through the roof. No one in the neighborhood has keys to the house so we couldn't open the door to get him out and he couldn't go through the window either because they all have steel bars protecting the house from people getting in. So we have a 250 lb drunk man that fell through the roof of a one story house that hurt his back really bad from the fall and couldn't move, with no way of getting him out of the house except from the place where he came...the roof and we only had three guys to get him out. Oh, he was also bleeding really bad from his mouth, which was actually blood coming from his stomach we found out the next day. So, after 20  minutes of struggling and working we got him out and got him to the hospital and he is in bad shape. We found out that he climbed up on the top of the house because he was looking for his wife...ya we should choose better to not drink because he will have problems for his whole life now. I thought it was a cool experience! 

Anyways it was a good week and I'm doing well. Tomorrow is our Christmas party in the house of the Mission Prez.

Cole

Only one more month until we finish this year and its crazy, this year went by really fast!

This last week was a good one, today was a fun P-day for us. This is the second time I've hiked a volcano here in El Salvador, it took forever! We had a good group that went so it was a lot of fun. My mission president called me yesterday morning and extended another calling for me, he asked me to train again. This will be the third time for me to train, I'm not sure who my new comp is yet but i will know Wednesday. I'm excited to train again but its really tiring and stressful but maybe i need to learn things from it. This means that i will be in my area for at least two more changes and ill be here for a total of at least 9 months and in this same zone for more than a year! I'm thinking about changing the name of my mission because I'm not in the city, I'm in the middle of no where ha but its all good, I'm ready for the third time challenge. Saturday was a cool day for me, one of the families i helped reactivate got married! Its so cool to see the progress of your investigators and the Less Active members in your ward.

I think that's about it for me this week, i cant wait to get your letter! I hope you have a good week and stay safe!

Love Always,

Cole