Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

I wasn't sure how I was going to fell about being away from home for thanksgiving, but it was awesome even though I am away. We had the AMAZING! pleasure of having Elder Jeffry R. Holland come talk to us for our Thanksgiving devotional. He brought his entire family, and his 13 grandchildren gave a musical performance. In the spirit of thanksgiving we had a service project where we put together backpack kits. My district was assigned to tracing the fabric for the backpacks. In the end as a mission we had made 33,400 kits. We been thinking this last about the string of physical misfortune that accompanies our district. We've had two rolled ankles, one case of severe bronchitis(i don't know how to spell it), one case of severe sleep apnea, two broken hands, five colds, and twelve cases of bad gas. Next Wednesday we'll be receiving our reassignments. I'm praying that it will be somewhere Portuguese speaking. Visas are starting to trickle in. Apparently the same thing happened last year and all of them came in right after Christmas. Going to Brazil wouldn't be the worst Christmas pressent. Every morning I wake up, realize where I am, and go "Oh my goodness....I'm a missionary" The other thing I wake up thinking is "I've been here almost two months" I want to get out of here so bad, so that I can teach someone real, who's not a teacher, or another missionary. So many missionary try to interrupt you so that they can practice bearing their testimony, or try to contact you, but it gets to the point where it's almost every five minutes, that if my companion and I see anyone coming up to us while start praying and people usually leave us alone. I had one condition for Thanksgiving and that was that they better have stuffing, and they did, so it was all good. This year I am thankful for my family and their support, my district, the opportunity to serve a mission, the restored gospel, the talents God has given me, and pumpkin pie. Love you all

Love,
Elder David Short