Back during the storm all the sisters were at the mission home, and our sisters said that Pres prayed for the whole mission and said things like our future families will be blessed for what we do. We've been helping this lady- the sister's real estate agent- and we've gone to her house for the last 3 weekends, and last night she invited us to go to her church, which she said was Catholic. But turns out to be some other Christian church. So there was a live band, with bass guitar, drums, acustic guitar.. singers. cool stuff. Then the main pastor dude talked about waiting. The theme was Christmas, and how we have to wait for it. And waiting for other things. He was funny too. The place was pretty big and full of people. Oh, the songs we sang were pretty good too. Like I want a CD of it. It's all good worship songs.

Could you check my debit card balance? I got a hair cut and paid with it ( I'm out with my church card) and I didn't put my number in, so I don't know what happened there. But if you could give me a balance of it every week, that'd be awesome. I have to go shopping again today for a hoodie, or jacket, or something warm. It does look nice outside, but it's so freezing cold!! I had hand warmers in my gloves yesterday. But I'm more worried about my fingers, they get cold easier and faster. It's fun to see what people have in their houses that they probably didn't know they had. Like that old lady last week had never gone into her crawlspace in more than 50 years, so of course she didn't know what was down there. But there was some really old magazines, like just normal ones, girly mags. but the ads were cool. If I could open the page without ripping it in half.

Yesterday was probably the last day of service, but yesterday there was supposed to be a bus load of people to come help, who never showed. So we still have a stack of work orders. So this week probably isn't normal proselyting. We won't know till later today maybe.

With the freezing cold, it's not fun to get my hands wet. Then they're cold and miserable. Even if I put latex gloves under my work gloves, it's still cold. I love how no matter the day, we always get free food. When we're in the Rockaways at least. But there's always a truck giving out free food. Usually it's the Red Cross. But yesterday it was some pizza truck. We got a little Italian bread with tortilla pizza. It wasn't as much as Red Cross gives out, but it's still good.

On Thanksgiving morning I woke up at 4 to go to Montauk. Kinda like last time I went to see the sunrise, but on the southern side of the island. And there was a lighthouse, and cool gynormous rocks to walk on right by the ocean. And there's this massive thing people call the toilet. http://www.montauklighthouse.com/pictures.htm This site has good pics of the end of the island. But it's hard to see the toilet thing. I'll send some pics.

Waking up that early is not fun. But the turkeybowl afterwards was. I played a little game of soccer, and then a full game that never actually finished. We just took a really long break- of ultimate frisbee.

When we are at member's houses for Thanksgiving, I realize that it's so cool to be this a part of these families so much to be invited to their houses. We went to two houses on Thursday, then one on Saturday. The Sat dinner was amazing. It was at the Danner's again. He made deep fried turkey, but I actually didn't get any, even though everyone was saying how amazing it was. I got stuck on the pork. It was seasoned just right. And they had sweet potato pie with a pecan topping that was amazing. I gained 10 lbs on the first day. I didn't eat much on Sat, cuz before we got there, we stopped by the other Spanish elders apartment for a visit and Elder Mccombs gave me three slices of pumpkin pie and a cup of hot chocolate. Oh- they don't have Dunkin Doughnuts in Utah, but they are EVERYWHERE here. And we go sometimes for hot chocolate, or, of course, doughnuts. I actually see more DD than Starbucks. But SB is everywhere too. In Target, the mall, but at the mall they have their own massive kiosk in the middle of the place. It's not really a kiosk if it's that massive. The one thing I don't really like about email is that I can't draw out a picture of something for ya.

Ok- so with the pictures I try to take a lot. Or of things that aren't in Utah. Like different churches, or things, idk. I'm bringing my camera more places now, but actually using it is still hard.

It's good to hear from someone every week, even if it's just one. Oh, I got a letter from Mitch Howell! So thanks for whatever you did. Oh and I found out that a kid I went to school with is coming to this mission next year, speaking Spanish. I heard cuz there is a kid already here that I went to school with, Seth Webber. He's in my district. I mean zone. Nothing really exciting has happened but I'll let you know if something does.

ummmm- love ya bye- Elder ny Peck