Today we had a gentleman come into the office and tell us in broken English that he had packages for us.  So, I asked him if he wanted to use our dolly and he said no - many packages.  So, I asked if I could help and he said no - many, many packages.  So I propped open our door and went out and it was a postal truck filled with our packages.  He had 4 hampers in the truck and he said they were all ours.  He said, "this is unbelievable". I told him about our 240 missionaries and that they are away from home and they are between 18 and 21 years old - and he said "unbelievable" - again.  Sister Truman and I were the only ones in the office - and he kept hauling in the hampers and Sister Truman and I kept unloading them.  Then he had to scan each package - you will see him in the pictures.  You will also see some - not so pretty pictures of me trying to get packages out of the hamper.  Elder Ruse walked in to a complete mess - so he decided to take pictures.  Here they are:

 

Along with the 185 packages, we received 400 pieces of letters and cards that had to be labeled.  We held the packages in the office and Elder and Sister Truman will go to San Luis Obispo and take zone 1 and 2 packages tomorrow - Christmas Eve and Elder Ruse and I will take zones 3 and 4 and the Assistants will take zone 6, 7, and 8 and head to Simi Valley.  We live in zone 5, so the zone leaders for 5 will come to the office and pick them up.  We will do this as soon as the mail comes tomorrow and we get it sorted.  President Castro said that last year most of the mail came on Christmas Eve.  If that happens this year - we will never get everything out by Christmas day!  I started putting labels on the letters we received on Saturday and then right into getting today's mail done and I didn't finish until 4:45 p.m.  I will let you know what time the mailman comes on Christmas Eve!