04/12/10

hey mommy kins. i also could use my camera charger, totally forgot that. haha. well atleast i packed everything else on the list. about done with week two i guess, talk about a time warp in here. each day feels like forever but everyweek feels like a day or even a couple hours. you can use dearelder.com and compose mail and that way it prints out here and i get it like a letter and dont have to wait four days per mail service(thats the avg i think) or a whole week for an email, plus its free compared to 48 cent stamps. you should spread the word about it, i think it only works in the mtc but since im here for so long.... taught some lessons this week and had to have to 5 minute talks in spanish. for the one lesson we had to pray for revelation for a topic then prepare to teach our teacher as par our revelation. it was a reall spiritual experience, she was balling. it was kind of funny though because i prayed and it was like hey now you get to teach your rm teacher about the law of chastity. it wasnt bad at all though. then we have this thing where teachers sign up and pretend to be recurring investigators that you teach to baptism, we got a headstart on our lessons with our recurring investigator, also a very spiritual experience. my companion the teacher (investigator) and i all felt amazing after the lesson. the sleep here is nuts, not only is napping not allowed but because of the showers we have to get up an extra 15 to 20 minutes early so were ready on time. for a whole week we also werent getting in bed on time because of things keeping us out later than usual. and on p-day our temple session is 7 am so we were up at 5 30 this morning, an extra hour out of my sleep. its beyond unusual and hard but ive been taken care of. can you look up how many ft above sea level willard is. its almost 5,000 ft over here and its making exercise and such interesting. sorry all this is mixed up and you will have to look through to see what to put in my blog but my mind is all over the place right now and i only have half an hour on the computer here. this far im already half way through my time. haha. how has work been besides yucky? so nicki i take it is back now? how was her vacation and how does she like being a cashier so far. give everyone hugs for me. especially bella i miss her so much, i miss everyone so much. so i take it brother taylor emailed you? yea in my interview he was like yea give me her email she should be writing you. haha. it was cute. he is a great guy. very loving and kind. i think we have the best branch presidency of all the branches here in the mtc. they all care so much for us and work more than most to make sure were taken care of and doing good. did i tell you we lost two sisters from our district because they went to intermediate? so now its my companionship two other sets of elders and one set of hermana's(sisters in english :P) thats your spanish lesson for the week mommy. and i already told my companion who is responsible for mail as the district leader that i should get a package today, so im officially on the prowl. how is the branch doing now that they have two young strong missionaries out serving God? and ps. i still need her new mission adress. so i think my date to go out into the field has changed but no clue to when and i probally wont know for a while. i just hope for the sooner date as opposed to the later dates that have been proposed. the temple was amazing today. things finally started clicking and making sense to me in the endowment session so its a lot better of an experience now. take this as your cue to harrass Dan because i havent heard from him yet. oh and my camera charger i think is plugged in upstairs. its for a fujifilm so it should say that on the cord. and did i get any calls or texts on my phone since ive left? just curious. and did you take the texting and insurance and such off of it.ok its telling me my time is up so i have to go. i love you muchos and more than you love me. and i miss you a lot. muah muah muah muah muah muah muah. love bubba

04/05/10

first prep day at the mtc. i have been loving things so far. they have been keeping me busy so i dont have to think so often about how much i miss you and home and everyone. and yes i promise i do miss you loads and i love you more :P. went to the provo temple for a 7 am endowment session. i get to do that every prep day i guess. my companion is from alberta canada. his name is elder thomas johannes thornsteinson. haha. hard name to say let me just tell you. in my district (class) we have 3 sets of elders and two sets of hermanas or sisters. oh and im not capitalizing. i hate this keyboard and only get half an hour to compose all of my emails. the food here is pretty decent, gives you gas though. did you watch conference at all? if not pull it up on my laptop to see some of it. koichi yoagi (spelling) was a good talk. obviously presidents Uchtdorfs talk on patience was my favorite. he always has the best stories. president Monsons closing talk/ remarks made me cry. with his retelling of the 15 year old boy who was on his death bed with his two siblings on missions and his older brother just getting a call yet he still was strong in his faith. president Monsons other story about the missionary who converted his one parent and finally was able to be sealed with them through his hard work and faith, yea that was a tearjerker. come this thursday 8 days in they will already have me bearing my testimony to investigators in spanish. i have memorized the missionary purpose located on page 1 of preach my gospel and almost have the first vision memorized. i can for sure feel God's hand in blessing me with being able to memorize so much so fast. i am very thankful that he has helped me so much and continues to help me so that my days are good. im not good at it yet but i can now pray in spanish and even bless meals in spanish. one of my favorite parts of class is when we sing himno's or spanish hymns. the spirit is so strong, some of us cant pronounciate well still and only a few can even sing in english but it is still so wonderful. first night here i saw sister Snedecor! imagine that. but havent seen her since. haha. i really miss the branch though. how is sister lovejoy and brother voorheis doing? im still praying for them. i really miss my young mens and priesthood. im the only one around here that is from a branch. they dont know what it is and for sure dont understand how much better a branch is, well how much better our branch is. i sat for over 16.5 hours for all the sessions of the conference and the fireside and movie we held afterwards. it was freaking intense. my butt hurt so bad i cant even tell you. i still felt the spirit though and i loved the oppurtunity. and the fireside you would have loved. it was a singing fireside full of hymns. and we got to say our favorites to sing and why there special to us. it was so nice. can the Snedecors send me sister Snedecors new adress as to her leaving today or tommorow for Tempe. the weather has been really crazy here. from rain to fog to snow to sun. we have had it all in a matter of a few days. but today is the start of the summer season so us carlsbad elders are going to rock shortsleeve shirts and no jackets anymore. i am kinda used to wearing my coat now because i had to sitting down through all of those conferences.


(Tenitive leaving May 26 for Carlsbad, and last day as a missionary is April 3, 2012 I think.)

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off to president Beck's to be set apart as a missionary. what a long road its been.