Bonjour mes Amis et ma Famille.
Today's
my first P-day and I get write you this awesome letter while doing the
laundry. This week has been Pretty awesome. I started out in a beginners
French class and our teacher didn't show up. it was pretty crazy
because i had absolutely no idea what was happening. I did meet the most
awesome people in the world though. My companion, Elder Baldwin, is a
good ole southern boy just like me. He's from Marrietta, GA and i'm
pretty sure we're the only people in the MTC from the south. My
roommates include the companionship of Elder Fults From Fort Worth, TX
and Elder Oviatt from Edminburg Canada. Elder Oviatt is hilarious, but
the funniest thing about him and Elder Fults is that Fults means farts
in German and I don't think i've ever heard someone fart as much as
Elder Oviatt! the other companions i room with are Elder Ghirelli from
Brazil and Elder Pederson from Denmark. Elder Ghirelli is really awesome
because he doesn't know a ton of English and it's hard for him to go
from Brazilian to English to French, but he Tries really hard. Elder
Pederson is really funny though, he didn't know the N-word was bad, so
he started throwing it around and everyone freaked out. My district is
them plus Sister Hafen from Michigan and Sister Grunke (Smiley Face U
though) from Germany. My Branch President two days after i got into the
MTC, but President Zimbleman was there long enough to make me District
Leader (which i thought would be all fun and no work, but i was wrong).
Since the First Day my district has been made the Intermediate French
class and everyone in it is amazing at French, well, except for me. I'm
so horrible it's almost unbelievable they put me in the intermediate
class, but I know with some prayer and hard work i'll be able to do it!
My Branch President is now President Merrill, and if that sounds
familiar then i will say YES, he is the brother merrill whose been
teaching The Book of Mormon class at BYU for 25 years. The guy is pretty
awesome and i'm learning a ton about the book of mormon. Right now we
only have a teacher for one out of two classroom instruction times (and
classroom instruction time is like 3 and a half hours), so we have a lot
of free time and most of it we goof off. We've been getting better, and
i'm trying as district leader to make sure we're studying during
classroom and study times, but we don't get another teacher until
Thursday and it's tough to pay attention for that long for all of us.
The teacher we do have is named Sister (or Soeur in French) Judas and
she's awesome. So far the toughest thing about this whole experience is
that one of the Elders we room with has to take medecine an hour before
he eats so we've decided we'll all wake up with him. The only problem is
that we have the earliest breakfast time. essentially we go to bed
between 10:30-10:45 and wake up at 5:30. I'm insanely tired, but i've
started saying "the Harder you work the less tired you are". Elder
Oviatt asked me if that was true this morning after i said it. HAHA, I
told him, "I don't know, but if i stop working then i'm going to fall
asleep". Memorable events include The Devotional we had by Elder Merrill
Bateman of the quorum of the 70, Me memorizing the entire first vision
in French (that's right, I'm Awesome!) and a pretty awesome trip to the
Temple. Everyone make sure to send me emails so i can put them in my
group letters, I need Gigi's, Flora's, Annika's, Ryan Hayes, Doctor
Hassell, Gen's (because i Don't think the email i put is right),
Nikki's, and other peoples! JUST SEND ME EMAIL ADDRESSES! Also make sure
to log on to Dear Elder and send me a letter! Everyone is getting one
and I want one! I promise that if you send me a letter I'll send you one
back. I'll be online for the next like 20 minutes, so Email me if
you're on :)! P.S. I always heard that most of the girls in the MTC were
ugly and there we're a couple of cute ones. let's just say that that is
definitely not true anymore! The work is more important than girls
though! haha, Au Revoir.NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
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