Departure date January 25

From the mom: Sorry, all no pictures this week
Connely's new departure date is Jan 25th. If you need to write to him add this to the letter for quicker delivery: MTC box number, 93, Departure date 1/25

 Elder Packard doesn't have travel plans yet but his companions do. His mission president shows as the California Long Beach mission, although he says that there are some major changes happening in the MTC right now so that there may be some mix up. It is very uncommon for Dutchies to not get Visas on time, although Packard has some issues with his birth certificate.  He will know more this week, either way he departs on Jan 25. 

And a funny story: 
I  forgot to tell you that on Christmas night David Archuletta came and did a concert for us. He is really a small person. Some sisters were freaking out behind us when he came in until I told them that he was only sent to Chile on his mission because the people there are small enough for him to baptize. They gave me the stink eye but they were also noticeably quieter. The concert was really great though, and he had a pretty powerful testimony of Jesus Christ that he bore to us. 

 Elder Gemmell has been teaching me how to do the Haka and the rubiks cube. I am so glad that my companion is not a scrub. We are in our new branch now. They are all a bunch of good guys. There are no Albanians right now so it is just us and the Hungarians. Our new branch president is a really good guy. it is just a little weird because we already spent half of our time getting to know the Danes, and now we have a new presidency, and the Danes leave on Monday. Pretty much everybody we know will be gone before next Wednesday. But we also only have two weeks left on Monday, since they changed our departure date to the 25th.
A ton of people just came in this week because the people who wanted to do a semester of school before they came all are going to be coming in right now. We used to be able to walk right up and get our food at meals, now sometimes the lines is all the way out of the cafeteria. I would hate to be working in the cafeteria. 

Other than that everything is still insanely consistent. Nothing here ever seems to change. They say that every day is a week, and every week is a day. I like it here, but sometimes, it can be a little boring. There is just not enough time for everything in one day.

Also at dinner today I was talking to the Danes and some elder came up and asked them were they were going. Elder Kennedy said "Oh, I am going to Denmark." The other elder got a big look on his face and said "Wow, you are going to Texas?!" It was really hard not to laugh

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