Hey!
The MTC is great! The
spirit is great! Food is great! but super processed, and it does kinda weird
stuff to you, this'll be a long 10 weeks haha.
My MTC time got
extended! We're here an extra week because they skipped a transfer for
Christmas and New years week. So I'm heading out Feb. 23rd, that's why it's 10
instead of 9 weeks.
Japanese is coming
along well! Mostly.. Every elder in my district studied before hand in school,
but I am the furthest along, because sensai is such a great teacher :D Well at
least I was the furthest...my companion took 3 years, and he has a photographic
memory, and he learn pretty much every word he sees..so now he has a way larger
gospel vocabulary then me, I'm kinda super jealous, because I have an awful
memory, and have to write down everything in lessons. All the Japanese I took
in high school came back within the first two days, but the new stuff isn't
sticking too well.
We've been teaching
investigators in Japanese since the second day here! And it's awesome! It was
pretty funny, because the sensai pretending to be an investigator didn't expect
us to actually know or understand Japanese, so when he said the prayer, he
prayed for us to be helped learning Japanese, and to feel the spirit while
we're at the MTC and stuff haha and we totally understood everything haha.
Lessons are so cool though, we've taught everything from the atonement to the
Christmas story haha. I'm so lucky I have a good companion, we both really want
to learn and work, and so we SYL (speak your language) all the time to each
other, and have learned a ton that way! I just wish I had a better memory! I
learn a ton one day, and then it's all gone the next day!
Speaking of which, my
companion is named Elder Pennington, he's from Tennessee and he's awesome. He
was home schooled, but his dad taught him Japanese as a language credit. We get
along subadashi (wonderful). I know it's only been a week, but I keep
accidentally typing Japanese words thinking they're English haha. It's kinda
awesome...but kinda not haha
Good news! One of the
girls is from Hawaii, and she said elders who went to anywhere in Asia or the
Pacific get half off tuition at BYU Hawaii! So that's awesome :D I'm so
excited, that's definitely the school of my choice if I get into all of them :D
So I'm doing pretty
well here...except for falling asleep in class all the time...I came to the MTC
with 2 hours of sleep, and haven't really gotten to catch up on it too much. I
sort of have, if you follow all the rules, you should be in bed a full 8 hours,
which I do..But I have pretty restless sleep.. So I end up falling asleep in
meetings and classes that don't let me talk or move for more than half an
hour...which is alot of them haha. I haven't made it a full day without falling
asleep in at least one class. That's my big trial right now haha. It's super
hard, I try so hard to stay awake, and when my comp. realizes I'm falling
asleep he'll kick me to wake me up...but most of the time no one realizes. I've
mastered the look like your praying look, from practicing so much at EAC and
now I do it on accident all the time haha.
I'm calling home
tomorrow! Not skyping, so don't expect me to call on skype, just with the
phone. I think it's around 4:30, don't realy know.
Kaylee should send me
my hobo gloves, because I left them at home, you should also include some
Kleenex haha.
I got my allergy meds,
thanks for that! I've been feeling kinda sickish, and I'm not sleeping well at
all, mostly because I'm cold and the blanket they gave me isn't big enough to
cover me haha. I'm going to start wearing lots of clothes to bed haha. Oh and
if you have free time and feel like searching stuff on the internet for
me...I'd love it if you sent some sheet music in Japanese over to me! I want to
sing in church, and they want it in Japanese, there are two guys in my
district that sing, and they're both tenors, so if it could be a duet, or a
trio that'd be great :D
My watch shattered
even more...I cracked all the glass out and have been using it this week
without any glass, it stopped working today though...so I'll have to get
another one of those sometime.
I sent an email with
lots of pictures...at least I think I did haha. If not, I'll send them next
week, I could just email them from my fancy Camera, but I feel like that's
cheating/breaking the rules a little bit. So I won't. Oh and can you forward
this on to everyone? Can you take out the stuff about my medicine, and anything
else kinda weird and forward it to everyone? Oh and is everything in my
missionary kit consumable? Because they taste pretty bad...but I've been using
it to get rid of a cold/sore throat. And can you send me Sister Romney's email
address? I've been taking creeper pictures of her daughter every once and a
while and can't send them to her now, since I forgot to bring her email
address.
That's all I've got
time for! Talk to you tomorrow!
Aishitemasu!
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