New Years Traditions

well first of all, elder wilding is sitting right next to me and he says hello! he is my new zone leader haha. im so stoked to have him back. well the week was good except for the weekend. ill be quick to explain it, then talk about some of the new year traditions in mexico, which by the way, are very different from utah. thursday in the night we got really sick, and elder sonntag was vomitting all night, i woke up with vomit and diahrrea. we got blessings, then left to work to get miguel his interview, he got baptized!, then went to give a blessing to a sister in the ward. she described her symptoms and elder sonntag went white. he realized that he had the same symptoms as the sister, which she said was salmonela...... so he called hna spanaus and she told us to go home and not eat for the rest of the day. i wasnt as bad as my companion, but i still felt a little sick.
i read 50 pages in d&c and am in d&c 80 which has been a really fun experience. i have learned a lot and am really enjoying the personal revelations that the lord gives that i can apply to myself. saturday we baptized miguel and were feeling a little bit better. it was a sad baptism and only 6 people were there.... but we felt the spirit and did a special musical number. he was confirmed on sunday and we gave him a tie and a HLJ ring, (thanks sharon for the rings it was a really good idea) also we took a golden family to church. after a huge party they had on saturday, when we showed up at their house, they were getting up, and we invited them to church and they gave us breakfast and we went together. they are getting ready for baptism on the 14 of january. please pray for them! eder, alicia, and fernanda.
well new years is pretty cool here. we had pozole verde and bacalao for dinner. they are amazing foods, and we had three cakes, german chocolate, flan and chocolate, and pecan pie! so good. then at the last 12 seconds to midnight you eat a grape to say goodbye to every month and ask for a wish. if you eat all twelve grapes in the 12 seconds it comes true. then, we did a veracruz tradition, you stuff clothes with woodchips in socks, pants, shirt and a make shift head with a tooooooon of fireworks! then sing and dance with him and light him on fire. it was a huge blast! i have a video too! it is actually a day for family to be toghether, not like home were we always split up for our different parties. but i like the both.
sorry i have to go now, it has been hard to focus on writing with elder wilding here on my side, but thats pretty much all that happened in the week. its starting to get really windy here, and it looks like a storm maybe. we will see. i love you all!
elder facer