Week 25...1/26/15...Second Companion, ELDER GARBOZA and Herba Magic

Well, I was writing this email and then the lights went out. And lately, they've been coming and going for days at a time. So I thought I wasn't gonna be able to write. But then as we were leaving walking to go back to San Pablo from Malacatan we ran into this Internet cafe that had a ''planta'' or energy generator! So we are in that one right now and super happy that we get to write home!

This week was insane as well! I'm going to apologize right away for no pictures because I forgot my cable to my camera at home;(.   This week was crazy for real though!  On Tuesday we got news of the changes in our district meeting. And Elder Lagos my companion and trainer for 3 changes got changed to go to Serchil which is waaay up in the mountains where it's super cold! He wanted to go say goodbye to all of the members and one of the others in our area.  He went with another Elder and I headed out with Elder Toala. We only had one lesson in my area and then we went to work in his.

That's been the big thing this week.  Presidente Ruiz gave us a challenge, if we could complete our goal as a zone or find 20 new people to teach each companionship in the zone we could make a zone temple trip! So we've been working super hard for that. On Wednesday we went to go drop off Elder Lagos to go to the change meeting in Reu. I stayed and worked with Elder Moreno who had his Birthday the same day.  We also worked with Elder Bagley, his area is in San Rafael. They're both super cool guys! We made french toast for Elder Moreno's Birthday and then went to help him find ''Nuevos.''  We worked super hard in the morning and then headed to lunch where the people made a cake for Elder Moreno. The only bad part was for lunch they served us some Herbas.  Just looking at them made me sick, but I pulled off some magic making them disappear into a napkin and into my pocket.

Then we went to the Church to pick up our new companions. I'm now with Elder Garboza. He's from Peru and holy cow he is incredible! He's such a good teacher and an awesome guy and a super good missionary.  I'm so excited that he's gonna be my comp for this change! So we worked super hard on Wednesday but didn't find very many news. Thursday morning we had our zone meeting and then decided we would go help the hermanas find some nuevos the next day by having an Ataque de Area or area attack. 

We all met up the next day in Malacatan and just went to work, everyone with a new companion.  I went with Elder Goldsberry who only has one change in the mission and later with Elder Fickes. It was super cool and just in a couple hours we had met a ton of people! However, that only left us with a few opportunities to find and teach new people. We prayed and worked super hard and miraculously we contacted and taught 22 people the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. So now as a Zone we get to go to the TEMPLE!!!! Which is super exciting! I'm really excited! I don't know if you can tell...

But ya life is super good! We have run into a bunch of people lately so we have a ton of investigatores. But the most positive one is named Oralia. She knows everything is true and we are just waiting for her and her boyfriend to get married and then she's going to get baptized!  Also, something super cool is happening this next week! We're having Elder Ochoa (70) come to speak to us as a Multizone Conference! So that's incredible and I'll let you know how it goes!

I hope that everything is going well at home! I'm doing amazing here.  I'm super pumped for the opportunity that I have to work with my new comp. I know that this work is inspired and is the work of our Heavenly Father.  This church is true and is the only one that has all of the truth in all of the earth. I'm sure of it. If you're not sure I challenge you tonight to go and ask our Heavenly Father in prayer.  I know He will answer because He answered me.

I love you all and miss you a ton but I'm loving serving the Lord down here.  It's changing my life every day!

Love,

Elder Pugmire

In my letter, I asked if he made his bed every day. . .
"Mom. Did I make my bed when I lived at home? Haha just kidding! You would be so proud of me if you could see how some of the missionaries live here. The Latinos are usually hit or miss.  But all of the ones in my house have been pretty decent. I clean the house every week, wash the dishes every night, make my bed every day, and sweep the floor around 4 times a week. You would be so proud! Sounds like everything is going well with everyone!

Week 24...1/19/15...Building School Rooms, The Torta Guys, Stitches

Hey guys what's going on? Sorry, this email is gonna be a little short because I'm short on time. This week was great though! First of all, on Tuesday our Mission President came to all of the Zones and we all got to watch ''Meet the Mormons'' in Spanish.  It's like a super big deal because it hasn't been released yet here in Central America and President had one of the only copies! So that was super cool!

That day I went on divisions with Elder Fickes!  It was super chill and the coolest part of the next day was we went and taught these two people that I know from San Pablo!  THE TORTA GUYS!  They always come up to San Pablo to cook and sleep every night but they live in Malacatan!  They are super cool and always give us discounted tortas and the lesson was super good!

Wednesday I went on divisions again with Elder Toala because my comp went to show Elder Solorio the area of Tocache.  We had a miracle happen.  We contacted a house we felt like we should visit and we ran into a lady who says she was a member and was going through a really hard time.  We were able to share a message with her and she gave us like three family references to go and teach!  So that was awesome as well!

On Thursday we went to contact one of the people we met a few months ago.  His name is Santos P.  When we met him he was super drunk but knew a ton about the Book of Mormon!  We had seen him like three times since the first time and every time he was drunk.  The miracle was when we visited him he was sober!  He introduced us to his family and told us he used to work for the mission office or something like that and he really liked to study the Book of Mormon but he had given his away to someone!  So we gladly gave him another and he was super happy to get back to reading it!  We're going to go visit him again this week!

Elder Lagos had his birthday on Saturday and I gave him a deck of cards and the promise to teach him some tricks.  Then we left in the morning to go give service at this school.  They were building three new rooms and so we with the branch went to go work construction. We mixed all of the dirt, concrete, and rocks on the ground and then carried it by buckets or wheel barrow until we finished!  Man, it was tiring!  But still super cool!

But ya that's about this week hope everyone is well!

Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Elder Pugmire

P.S. I didn't include this part in my letter home because I didn't want mom to worry. But after we were done helping with the school floor, we went to play soccer on the cement cancha nearby. After a little bit, we were just playing around and I started playing with my arms in my shirt trying to be funny (fair enough right, like you don't need your arms to play soccer....wellll...). Anyways, I suddenly realized I was the only white guy on the field, the ball was right in front of me and there was only one guy between me and the goal, and if I could score armless, I would forever go down as a soccer legend in these member's eyes. So as I skillfully moved the ball around my opponent, my foot caught his ever so slightly. I soon noticed two things, 1. I was falling, and 2. I had no arms to stop myself. In desperation of window elbow rolling, I landed on my face, elbow, and knee. On the ground, I examined myself from the privacy of my own shirt and figured my face was just scraped up and no serious harm had been done. Well, that was until the members gasped and pointed at the "hole" in my arm. I ended up having to go to the hospital in Malacatan in the back of a pickup/ambulance to get 7 stitches. Everyone was following us thinking about what could have happened to the town Gringo to warrant a ride in the ambulance. Somehow, I never knew how or if we ended up paying anyone, maybe the church just picked up the bill somehow but who knows. We just smiled and waved to make it seem like it wasn't a big deal. It was a sketchy hospital, but everyone jumped right away to help me out! I felt kinda bad because I feel like there were a lot of people in worse condition than I was in just in the waiting room. But ya, that was my gift to Elder Lagos, happy birthday, one experience he would never have with any of his other companions.

Hermano Daniel, Elder Solorio, Elder (first name not missionary) Romeo, Elder Lagos, Hermano Romeo, and his sons.

Week 23...1/12/15...Teaching and we believe in Soccer

Well Wow! I'm sitting back at the computer. This week went by insanely fast. I honestly don't remember what happened. I think I got sick this week but maybe that was last week. I don't remember. Ummmmm well this is awkward. . . I guess I'll give you an update on a few of our investigators and hopefully I'll remember some things that have happened. 

So, we're teaching this lady named Oralia. She's super cool and has a huge desire to learn about the gospel and already has told us she wants to be baptized! (Is baptized in with a z? I don't remember how to spell!!! UHHHHH! Oh well, it never was a strong point of mine.) So that's super cool! All we are waiting for is for her and her boyfriend, who is a member returned missionary, to get married! They've got a wedding scheduled for the end of January. But she's super cool!

We also have this one family, well actually like 6 families up in Colima 1.  They all live in the same house but it's actually a really big house. We are really still working on learning names and figure out who is related to who because everyone is related but we don't know-how.  We have a soccer activity scheduled for this next Saturday! Oh, that's something fun about the other churches. A lot of the Pastors here preach against soccer. They say that it's a sin and a lot of churches don't permit their members to play. They say playing soccer is like playing with the devil's head... kinda strange. So that was a concern of this family because they like soccer. So that's a fun fact of the day!

We play every Friday Night at the Cancha de Wally. He's the owner and plays goalie for us. When we had Elder Lagos and Gavarette we were a force to be reckoned with. Elder Lagos and Gavarrette each played for semi-pro teams in Honduras and Costa Rica. I was just big and tall compared to Guatemalans. We'd have teams from an hour away come to play us which was a blast. We even kind of had a personal tuc-tuc guy come pick us up. 

We are also teaching this family who are super cool. The coolest member of the family is this little girl who's 8 years old named Angie. She's the town Beauty princess or something. She's has wanted to get baptized for a year but her dad works in the military and never is home. So we've been working with them forever to get this family baptized but the big problem is time. The good thing is Angie finished up the year of being the town queen so that should free up the family a little bit for time. The dad is still praying to receive an answer and the other 2 kids said they don't want to get baptized unless the dad does. So that's what we're waiting for with them. Other than that we have a ton of people we've taught or been teaching.  The main problem is getting the people to come to church.

So ya, that's about this week! the only other thing that I remember is we went and gave some service by moving a big concrete pila and a chicken coop. Today's P-day was super fun! We had a huge water balloon fight with normal balloons. It was super cool! Then we went and got tortas which are the best things here like I've always said. But ya! Life is good! Changes are coming up on the 21st and my comps birthday is the 17th so things should be super cool! Hope everything is good for everyone! have an amazing week!

Peace out from Elder P!

Week 21 & 22...1/5/15...Holiday Food, Food, Food and Rat Killer

Translation:  "I will share the gift by filling Christmas with magic!``

Holy cow time has gone by soooo fast!  I'm almost to the 1/4 way mark! Sorry, I didn't write last week! The internet place hadn't paid for the internet so it was closed ;( dang it. But the good news was I got to talk with my family! And that was amazing! I really don't remember too well what happened three weeks ago or two weeks or this week so I'm just gonna try to lump everything together.

So first of all, once again my pictures have been lost.  I lent the memory card to our District leader and he seems to have misplaced it. I'm trying not to make him feel too bad about it because he feels pretty bad. But the good news is most of the photos are already sent home and I have more cards to use! But still, it's kind of a bummer.

Christmas here was insane.  I don't remember what happened when.  But basically, all we did was eat. Members, investigators, less actives, drunks on the street... everyone was inviting us to come and eat food at their house. But not just any food. . . TAMALES!!!! They are delicious but I'm pretty sure I've eaten enough to hold off for another year. We visited almost every member in over 3 days and ate at least one tamale at almost everyone. Then they would send us home with like 12 more. Our fridge was sooooo full! The other thing they serve a lot here kinda like the states are Cookies! But they all come in packages and they just eat a ton of them! That and sweets!

Christmas Eve Sweets and Food

My Comapero Loco

More food from our Presidente de Rama.
 It was soooooo good!

Man, I was soooo full! The cool thing was on New Year's  Eve we had dinner with our Branch President and his family! We had turkey which was soooooo good! But I was so full it was kinda hard to enjoy it. Right at 12 is when everyone lights off all of their fireworks so it's basically impossible to sleep!  Then we got to talk
to our families on Christmas Day and continued eating food. OH! I also was helping Hna Suceli set up skype so they could talk with their brother who is on his mission and guess who his companion is!!!??? ELDER COE!!! One of the coolest kids from the CCM! I was so pumped to say hi to him but that was all.

I got my package from Aunt CaMee and Uncle Travis and my Grandparents and it was awesome!!!! My comps loved it too! 

Some of my comps using the portable ping pong table Uncle Travis and Aunt CaMee and Grandma and Grandpa sent. They love it!


I made an incredible unhealthy invention from all of the food. . . my fantastic invention with all of the stuff that got sent in the packages. Featuring the all-powerful holiday oreo, Nutella, peanut butter cup, more Nutella, and a rolo. Yes yes, it is unhealthy but you better believe it tasted fantastic.

We've continued to teach a bunch of people and we should have some baptisms next week! But we've been praying really hard for them for a couple months so well see what the Lord has in mind!  Our Branch Christmas Activity was a huge hit!!!! We just were a little low on room.  

Wonderful New Year's Eve Meal w/ Presidente & Family

This week was pretty interesting. On New Year's Eve Day (is that a thing or did I just make that up?) We went to eat lunch and we got 3 things of meat about the size of marbles, rice and a ton of what's called herbas. Basically herbs but I think it was some spinach and other stuff other herbs.  It tasted terrible.  I almost died eating it. I'm super proud of myself because I ate all of it! Then I realized I had a problem. None of my companions had eaten it. Or at least all of it. I guess I was so busy choking it down I didn't realize no one else was going to eat it.  I had expected everyone else to eat it.  As soon as we left I started to feel sick.  We taught all afternoon and then about 7 o'clock we went to ask Hermano Daniel if he had something that could help my stomach. I drank some vitamin water and Alka seltzer but then threw up. We went home and for the rest of the night I was throwing up.  I didn't sleep at all. Finally, I got it all out of me but I still felt awful.  We left the next morning to go to work. But we returned to go pick up something.  I laid on my comps bed for like 2 seconds and passed out for 3 hours. The next thing I knew my comp was waking me up to go eat lunch.  I couldn't even bear the thought of eating.  Unfortunately, it was New Year's and so everyone once again invited us to eat. I ate a little bit and by the end of the night when we went to eat with Presidente I was feeling a lot better and right now I feel great! 

Sometimes in these weeks, we've had a great zone lunch.  So we had a great lunch as a zone someday after Christmas! Here's what it looked like from the second level of the church in Malacatan.  I took a photo but no one really was looking so I took another but I decided it was best to close my eyes for it. ;)

Here's our zone today.  We played volleyball and my team won the Tourney!
(Elder Bagley, Elder Heyrend, Elder Jensen, Elder Moreno? Elder Fickes, Me, Elder Goldsberry, Elder Arias, Elder Lagos, Elder Toala. Font: Elder Lovett, Elder Walton, Hermana? Hermana Cabrera, Elder?

OH! Today we played volleyball and our team of 4 elders, Jensen, Godinez, Heyrend and I won the championship!  I went on divisions with Elder Fickes the other day and it was awwwwsoooommmeee! The highlight happened in the morning. Elder Fickes'` house has a rat problem and in the night he said he heard them all night. (I slept like a normally do and didn't hear a thing.) Then right as we were about to leave for the day he saw a rat.  He called me over and I ran into the room with my slingshot and some pebbles and shut the door.  By then there was no escape and I felt like a Viking, Cave Man Warrior (or whoever uses slingshots to hunt) when I killed the rat with one shot from my slingshot.  Actually, I hit it twice but I think the thing that killed it was when it ran towards me and I drop kicked it across the room... But anyway we both were pretty pumped with our conquering.

The rat I killed with my slingshot. Ya, I'm pretty proud of it.

That's basically a quick or not so quick summary of these two weeks! I'm doing great and excited for this new year! I'm learning a ton and Spanish is coming so quick!  As long as I am doing my part of studying and praying the days come easy. There's such a difference between the days when I study and the days I miss.  I hope that everyone had a fantastic Holiday season and that this new year is the best one yet! Love and miss you all!

Love,

Elder (the rat killer) Pugmire

Week 20...12/22/14...Feliz Navidad

Hey friends and family! I'm super happy right now because as of right now BYU is winning in their bowl game! So that's always great! Thanks, mom for the updates! I also have some bad news for today. I don't have my camera because today we went on a zone scavenger hunt and I took a bunch of pictures. But the zone leaders wanted them to put them into a presentation. So that's where my photos are, well kinda, the SD card I gave to Elder Lovett also got misplaced, so I lost all those photos. Thankfully I've sent most of them home. Also Today we don't have too much time to write because I get to talk to my family soon!!! I'm SOOOO EXCITED!!! 

This week was pretty great though! We had a multi zona meeting in San Marcos this Tuesday. Man, it was amazing! First of all, it was such an amazing temperature. Since it was in San Marcos which is in the mountains it was the perfect temperature to be wearing my long sleeve shirt and suit... Which is usually just the combination of sweltering heat and slow death. The conference was fantastic! But also kind of sad because it was the AP´s last day on the mission. I was really good friends with both of them who both only have a few hours drive home to different parts of Guatemala! Also one of the greatest lunches ever was at the conference! PIZZA!!! With WINGS!!! I ate almost a whole pizza because there was so much! I think it was one of the first times I've had pizza in the whole mission. Also, I enjoyed showing all the missionaries how to eat wings. Special thanks to Montrell Moore for teaching me. On the way home, it was super exciting because all of our zone was in a little van, and right as we stopped to drop off the first companionship one of our tires melted and popped. So we were on the side of the road for a while while the driver let the brakes cool down and could put on the spare. It was clearly a miracle that the tire popped as we were stopped and not as we were driving!

But we got home safely and went to work! UHHHHH!!!! Memphis tied not good! Still praying hard for BYU!) Alright, so some other things that happened this week was we did a toooonnn of service! We moved out our best investigatores that were moving to San Marcos so that was tough. Then another day we helped a member move houses. The next day we went and degrained a costal de Maize (just know that a costal is a toooonnnn!!!! My fingers were hurting for a few days after.) We're still teaching a lot of people and looking always for others. It's tough because it seems like everyone we teach ends up leaving for a different part of the country. 

Yesterday was crazy! There was a parade in all of San Pablo that was full of pickup trucks with boards in the back to make them floats. They were full of Christmas lights and lots of decorations. We basically got stuck in a member's house to avoid getting stuck in the middle of it. But finally, it passed. We did some other stuff for like 45 minutes more and then headed to go home. But unfortunately, the parade was super slow-moving and we ended up getting caught in the middle of it. But we decided to make the best of it because the streets were lined with people. We waved and gave out a few El es La Dadiva cards. So that was pretty great!

Anyway, that pretty much wraps up the week! Speaking of Wraps I'm super excited for Christmas! Hope that everyone is doing well and that everyone has the best Christmas ever! Feliz Navidad Y que le vaya Bien! 

Love,

Elder Pugmire

Week 19...12/15/14...Choir Concert

Holy cow this week was amazingly crazy! I've also realized that my letters are pretty boring and I apologize. I'm gonna try to make things a little more interesting. ANYWAY... This week was crazy!!!

Tuc Tuc. . . what we use to get around in.

This Tuesday we had our meetings for changes! WOW! Our zone had a ton! Elder Cook is headed out! Yes, Mom the same Elder Cook whose parents you talked with. He's probably my best friend that I had in the zone and a straight-up beast.

Elder Cook

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Elder Keck and Elder Cook. . .  Some of my best friends in the zone that are headed out to another area. Doing the ''KECK''

On Wednesday we got a bunch of new people! Elder Gonzalez left and we got Elder Solorio to come and finish training Elder Toala! 

                                              Here's the last photo of the boys in San Pablo.

Elder Solorio speaks really English really well. He really didn't have any special classes to learn he just would always listen to English music and movies. He got the MTC and realized he could understand the Nortes!  He's really cool and from Mexico and was the trainer of one of the guys in my CCM District, Elder Mattson. In our district, we got 2 new Elders that are gonna be training! Our zone is sooooo new! We also got a brand new District Leader, Elder Lovett! He's super cool! 

The Zone Board

This week we had some crazy things happen. First of all, we gave this service where you get all of the corn off the cob. But you don't use a knife. Just your fingers. MAN If got the worst blisters ever! They were all dried out but man it hurts to type. 

But the crazy thing is that we were with this 12-year-old girl that filled up probably double the amount of corn we did in less than an hour. That in its self was definitely a lesson of humility. I am just happy that I don't have to degrain corn all of the time because every time I touch the space bar with my thumb I'm sure my blister is about to pop. ;(

This week we ran into some incredible investigators. We got them as references from some of the only members in our area. All of the other ones are in the other San Pablo area near Santa Domingo and Tocache. It's this lady named Gladys whose husband died 3 years ago and she has 6 kids. They're super poor but they are super Pilas in going to church (pilas is like the word for.... well I don't know it doesn't really have meaning... basically smart, awesome, cool its a good thing to be pilas.) Hermana Gladys and her hermana have shown up to a church activity the baptism that the other Elders had and the Choir activity last night all on their own. We just have to teach them and I'm sure they will be baptized in the next couple of weeks. It really is an answer to our prayers for miracles this month. Our other 2 baptisms fell through and got postponed so were hoping that eventually they will get baptized this month.

We had this activity this week where we were gonna show some videos including ''El es La Dadiva'' But right as we were about to start with over 70 people in the chapel the lights went out. But instead of canceling, we decided just to start. We ran and grabbed all of our candles from our house and we just had the activity in the dark.

They keep cutting off the lights almost every night which makes it super hot to sleep without a fan because the people don't pay their electricity bill. And there's this guy who puts up the electricity for free that the police are looking for so that's exciting I guess.

Yesterday we had a great choir come! They were made up of 3 stakes in our mission and had a ton of decorations.

The Choir Concert

We had over 400 investigators come in our stake!!! We rented a bus and just filled it up! We brought 3 families that are doing really well! We had lights all outside and then inside the door was a place where the investigators could take their pictures in the stable with the wise men and shepherds and Mary and Joseph and Jesus. Then we got all of their information to then bring their pictures to them so we could contact them later. It was a great program and they even had some songs in English that made me feel right at home!

Choir Decorations for Christmas Concert

Elder Fickes

Anyway, that's about all! Hope everything is well, miss you all! Hope BYU is winning and that everyone is cheering for them. If not... You should probably repent but I won't judge. ;)

Love,

Elder Pugmire

Week 18...12/8/14...Guatemala Experiences and Xetulul

Entrance of Xetulul

Hey guys sorry, this email is gonna be quick! This week was awesome! I have a ton of pictures but I don't know if I'll get to send them all because the place where we are writing is super slow and kinda sketchy. But this week was a blast! We had the chance to go to Xetulul which is an amusement park here in Guatemala! It was actually decent and had tons of decorations for Christmas! We spent almost the whole day there and then had a fantastic Christmas lunch and then Presidente bought us all ice cream!  
I got to see almost everyone from my old CCM District! So that was way cool! 

MY DISTRICT IN THE CCM MISSING A FEW PEOPLE
Huasupoma, Evans, Sherwood, Ellsworth, Elggren, and Mattson.

My Zone on the Water Ride doing the Keck

Elder Woods!!! 

Elder Meyer 

The best ride which is actually a pretty good roller coaster

Our zone on the log ride (Elder Berrios, Elder Cook, and Elder Jensen)

Xetulul Main Entrance

Elder Jensen 

Me, Elder Meyer, and Elder Cook

This week was definitely a show of Guatemala. We didn't have electricity for 3 days this week because some people didn't pay their bills. So they just cut it off for the whole town. So I've got a sweet picture of our house in the candle lights.

NO LIGHTS ALMOST EVERY NIGHT IN SAN PABLO

On Wednesday we went to give some more service and cut a bunch more wood for Hermana Amelia. While we were doing it we ran into a scorpion and a snake. Both were probably poisonous. But we didn't kill them. We put them in a bottle and then put them in our freezer. I don't really know why but that's where they are now. They look pretty sweet but I'm looking for the chance to throw them as far away as possible. Those things creep me out.

The Scorpion we found while giving service.

The snake we found while doing service. 

Something funny here is the little chicks. The people color all of the chicks different colors and you can buy one for one quetzal each.

The chickens here are sweet!

Yesterday was awesome we all rode down to the first presidency devotional. I could understand almost everything but I don't think I remember anything. So that's about where I'm at with my Spanish. After the activity, we had all of the people that are investigating the church light off floating lanterns like in tangled! It was super awesome although we were super close to catching something and someone on fire. But everything ended up going well and safe.

Lanterns at the Christmas devotional!

Today was awesome. We had an activity as a zone where we all went to buy cereal and everyone brought their pajamas. Then we had a cereal buffet and pajama party which was super fun! Our zone is super fun and I get along well with everyone.

Cereal banquet

The people that feed us gave us Christmas cards. They almost got my name right...

Elder Keck! at Cambios!

Tomorrow is changes and it's gonna be crazy. Rumors are flying around that in our area there's gonna be a lot of changes so that will be really interesting. I'm excited though and can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

The final thing is the initiative the church is holding called HE is the Gift. If you haven't seen it look it up. christmas.mormon.org It's a short video and the church is doing a ton to have this video be promoted all over the world. Be sure to watch and then share it! That's what we have spent the last week doing!

Hope everything is well and that you are all having a great time in the cold!

Love,

Elder Pugmire

I got the package on Monday it was a little beat up but intact thanks for the stuff to cook and the presents which I will open soon! Also, the tree was awesome! My companions are super excited! (Editors Note:  It was sent 11/10/14 International Express)