We Skyped with Elder Bridge!

Christal said:
It was so great talking to Elder Bridge on Christmas!  I just want to say that I love Skype.  It's the greatest invention ever!!  Elder Bridge seems to be doing really well and his Spanish is sounding great!  At least that's what I think, from a non-Spanish speaker's perspective.  Daniel and Elder Bridge were having fun speaking Spanish with each other.  Connor finally got the SD card I sent him with all the videos on it from this summer.  He says thank you to all the Bridge fam for the awesome video messages. :)

Wow, big week. December 19, 2011

So anyway, ill be brief. The Christmas conferance we had wednesday was
awsome! We had like some training, and then we had an asado, then we
got presents from santa! i got 2 packages from brandon, which have
been opened, and two from mom, one of which has been opened, thank you
for the carmel apple suckers and the socks and Gs! well needed. the
other is marked CHRISTMAS so i am saving it until then. then we played
soccer, and basketball and it was a really fun time. we were there the
whole day. The big news though, is what happened saturday night. i got
transfered GAH!
    but its fine. its been done now. i was so sad to leave and it was
so hard to say goodbye to everyone yesterday, but i really think
theyre gonna be fine without the bridge, and im way excited about this
next transfer!
              My new comps name is Elder Asplund, hes from utah and
he dies in six months, so im killing my first comp. Im back in zona
rio cuarto, but im in a little pueblo thats 2 and a half hours away,
so ill never see any of my old people. Its crazy cause it was two
towns, one called rio tercero, and one called almafuerte. rio tercero
had eldr asplund and another guy, and almafuerte had hermanas. well
now, the hermanas left, so elder asplund and i are going to take over
both areas. we will be moving back and forth between the two im pretty
sure, and right now we live in alma fuerte, thats like home base, but
i think sometimes well be staying in rio tercero too cause its like a
half hour away and the apartment is on contract still. so weve got two
phones, two penchants, and i guess rio tercero has bikes! WHOOO! plus
our penchant is like a palace compared to my last one, the bedet even
works, so alot of firsts. Elder Asplund is the District leader, but
there is nobody else in our district now that the hermanas are gone,
so im going to be having pretty much zero contact with other
missionaries for awhile, its crazy. its a beautiful little town
though, and were just gonna tear into it, im way stoked. so yeah,
passing christmas with elder asplund in the middle of noplace, should
be interesting eh? wish me luck!
               Love, Elder Bridge

It's raining small and clear. December 12, 2011

Hey family!
     Weve had one heck of a tough week, but thats okay, its almost christmas!
    NOthing much new on the homefront. i ordered a French Book of
Mormon today so that i can start reading it it learn a little french
while im here, so if someone who speaks french wants to write to me
explaining the pronunciations, that would be great. I got the worst
haircut of my life the other day, not really, yall know ive had some
doozies, but its pretty ugly, it was Elder Harkers first time cutting
hair, im not too bugged about, but its really short, and saturday i
got one heck of a sunburn on my sensitive cranium so that saddened me
considerably. my head doesnt ache anymore at least.
 So im a little frustrated with computers right now. I got my memory
card from Christal and i can see that its full of videos from you
guys! but this dumb machine wont let me watch them. instead of braking
it with my fist of justice, im going to try to get a dvd made so i can
use a dvd player to watch them during the week, thats really the only
hope ive got.
    So this wednesday is our christmas party, were gonna play
football with presidant, were gonna talk about some spiritual things,
and hopefully there will be one or two letters waiting for me in the
bolsa (i can hope right?)
     Sounds like everything is good with the fam, here were just
praying for a Christmas miracle and keeping our eyes open for it, so
keep us in your prayers eh? you know youre in mine. I love you guys
and i hope everyone is keeping it real.
    Love, Elder Bridge.

 p.s. I was feelin lower than a bow legged caterpillar yesterday, and
we went to this old ladies apartment in a retirement home to visit her
since she cant come to church we brought her the sacrament. Anyway,
this lady always has lots to say, and she goes into some type of
sermon and i love it cause she just sits and thinks all day and then
dumps it all on us in one floom of speech you know? anyway, she said
"if my leg hurts, I can ask god "why does my leg hurt?" but if i do,
the next thing ill have to ask is "Why shouldnt my leg hurt? who am i
that i deserve two perfect legs?" suffice it to say, she put me to
thinking. last week is over, bring on this one eh? love you guys

NO TIME AT ALL. December 5, 2011

Not your fault, but shoot. working hard. lovin life. send me letters!
     Love, Elder Bridge