3/26
Howdy papa smurf
hope gramps is ok, that cant feel nice at his age, sounds like hes not too broken up tho.
How did you fix hot Vixi's sun roof? what was wrong with it. ya i was kinda slack on the maintenance but it ran fine for me, but then again she likes me more.
spencer left (dont know if i told you that) but no, we didnt have gym or anything together, so just when we met up did we see each other.
im still a Bawlla (i play basketball - to those of you who dont speak LA) i dont know if i can dunk, were not allowed to try unless in a legitimate game, and so its a little more difficult, but im better than i thought, i just needed to play a bit to remember how.
Spanish is going great, i made some RC calls in spanish, that was intense, but fun. i did have one lady from puerto rico who talked really loud in a super hi voice, it was so hard to understand her, but we got it done anyway. its good practice. I got my flight plans a few days ago, i wont tell you when i leave cuz i dont know if we can trust mom or gina or gma... o well, the next time i email ill be in LA, ill write before then tho. i guess ill catch ya on the flip side.
Elder Anderson
And later...
do you remember my friend christian? well he is leaving the same day i am, but yesterday in gym he tore is ACL playing 4 square... i know, its deadly. hes gonna finish his time here then go home for 3 months to heal, then go straight to texas after that. just thought i would let you know. im writing a letter today, i was just really bored last week and i dont like writing letters in the first place, dont worry.
Elder Anderson
Monday, March 31, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Counting down...
March 19-2008
Sup Fam,
Dis is a holler from da hood...of Provo. The most boring place on Earth. Well, at least the MTC is the most boring place on earth. Since nothing changes here, until 14 days from now, I doubt I'll have much to say. Sorry for ignoring you, Papa Smurf, I didn't realize I was. Thanks for the pics, a guy in my zone was amazed. He's a big elk hunter. There is a sister here that looks exactly like Bailie. K**** N*** wrote me a letter. She digs me. Spencer left today to Mexico finally. He, along with a bunch of elders in our zone, had their visas delayed for at least a week, his was for almost 2 so his district left yesterday and I went and got pics with him and Christian who leaves when I do. So nothing has changed here in 2 months, and according to your letters, same there.
There are 2 really annoying elders in our district, they both are in my room. Everyone else is pretty cool actually. Even Elder B*******. One of those really annoying elders is my companion. Just my luck. I'm glad I got the companion I don't like now so in the field I'll get good ones so we can work well together. At first I thought he annoyed me so much cuz we have to hold hands everywhere but when I poo, but then I realized we're with our district that long, too, and they don't bug me. O well, only 2 more weeks.
Tell grandma thanks for the food and letter. Thanks for the camera and Easter candy, but please don't send me more, I have too much. I'll ask for what I need. I'm not going to have room to take everything I have cuz I only have one suitcase and one bag. Wait till I'm in the field before you send me that backpack please. And when you do, send the all black one. The email server is down today so I won't be able to read emails til next week. 10-6 Wednesday is when I have access. Ok. Bye.
Elder Anderson
P.S. I didn't send a letter last week. Sorry.
Sup Fam,
Dis is a holler from da hood...of Provo. The most boring place on Earth. Well, at least the MTC is the most boring place on earth. Since nothing changes here, until 14 days from now, I doubt I'll have much to say. Sorry for ignoring you, Papa Smurf, I didn't realize I was. Thanks for the pics, a guy in my zone was amazed. He's a big elk hunter. There is a sister here that looks exactly like Bailie. K**** N*** wrote me a letter. She digs me. Spencer left today to Mexico finally. He, along with a bunch of elders in our zone, had their visas delayed for at least a week, his was for almost 2 so his district left yesterday and I went and got pics with him and Christian who leaves when I do. So nothing has changed here in 2 months, and according to your letters, same there.
There are 2 really annoying elders in our district, they both are in my room. Everyone else is pretty cool actually. Even Elder B*******. One of those really annoying elders is my companion. Just my luck. I'm glad I got the companion I don't like now so in the field I'll get good ones so we can work well together. At first I thought he annoyed me so much cuz we have to hold hands everywhere but when I poo, but then I realized we're with our district that long, too, and they don't bug me. O well, only 2 more weeks.
Tell grandma thanks for the food and letter. Thanks for the camera and Easter candy, but please don't send me more, I have too much. I'll ask for what I need. I'm not going to have room to take everything I have cuz I only have one suitcase and one bag. Wait till I'm in the field before you send me that backpack please. And when you do, send the all black one. The email server is down today so I won't be able to read emails til next week. 10-6 Wednesday is when I have access. Ok. Bye.
Elder Anderson
P.S. I didn't send a letter last week. Sorry.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
The Battle of the Bulge
Familia,
Howdy! What's up? All's well here. We've taught our last lesson in English, so now everything will be in espanol. I'm nervous about it, but mostly I'm really excited. It's going to be a good test of how well I can speak Spanish, and how well I can conduct the spirit speaking Spanish through me. I'm jealous, the spirit is fluent in so many languages and I'm barely fluent in English-let alone ones like Arabic or Cambodian. I saw a Preach My Gospel in those 2 languages, and they're written with a bunch of lines and dots; I'm not going to whine about Spanish anymore.
On Wednesday, we'll have been here for 5 weeks, which leaves 4 more to go before I get to see the real world again! Not that I'm not enjoying it here, but I can't wait to get outta here and get to LA. I've always wondered what other missionaries did to be more "righteous" than me and got a cooler mission, but Los Angeles will be awesome and the people I will be teaching will provide me with so many opportunities to teach, testify, and baptise. By the way, why is it that no general authorities, like the apostles, 12, or 70, served on the homefront (USA)? Looks like I won't be able to be prophet then. :(
Gina, thanks for putting that blog up. That will be cool once I leave here and do something more than sit in class all day. Mom said you're keeping the funniest stuff to yourselves...How selfish! That's like making a whole pot of Ramens then only drinking the juice. It's just not right, it's practically a sin to not eat the noodles. Do you see where I'm going with this? Good.
So I've been playing more hoop now, cuz I need to burn a few (2,384,475) calories. That's a bit harder to dominate at. There are a few really tall elders, and most of them played basketball in high school. I still do well tho, 1 or 2, maybe 3 points out of 7 each game. I've realized why I can dominate 4 square. Most of the kids play 4 square cuz they didn't get into a bball game. Not all tho. There are a few of us that are serious 4 square-ers, and can get some good games in. Umphress, Elder I mean, is getting pretty decent at it, which means I'll have to knock him out ASAP. The last game I played, I hit a nasty left hander at Elder Cooper, and got him out, so he had to go chase it. When he brought it back it was flat. My massive leftie popped it. Luckily we still have the old ball, the old lopsided greenone that is so fun to play with, cuz you can't tell which way it's going to go. I was surprised when the next day they had a brand new one for us already. I didn't get to play with it tho, I was playing basketball that period.
I'm really glad I can memorize stuff really easily. Pres. Monson said during one of his talks that if we memorize a scripture a day we will develop a photographic memory. I'm going to do it since I'm 4 weeks behind, and because on Saturday nights we have 4.15 hourse of MDT time. I memorized 6 scriptures in Spanish and English to get a start, and while doing my 1 scripture in Spanish and English a day. I"m going to work on memorizing as much of the BoM as I can. I had the first 2 chapters memorized during seminary last year cuz Bro. Bennett, my teacher, didn't think I could. Ok, so anyway we have 8.30 hours of study time on Saturday nights, with only dinner in between them so we get out of lunch at 12:15, then we have an instructor from 12:15-2:30, then an hour of PST and CST before dinner. Then at 5:15-9:00 is all MDT time. That's ridiculously long. I worked on my TRC scenario this week, so I memorized a million vocab words talking about food or relating to food in any way, plus my scriptures. That kills about an hour...I've been reading the Old Testament since I finished the BoM last week. Hra. Gallacher challenged us to read it once while we were here, and I finished like 2 weeks after that. No one else has finished yet. Reading it that quickly was actually a pretty good thing. When you finish it that quicklye, you get a good overall understanding of the people, what happened where and when, and a good general understanding of it. So the next time I finish it, I will know what's going on, and can concentrate on doctrine and not trying to figure out what's going on.
So I got a letter from S*******. She digs me, and I don't know why, I haven't worked it with her forever, quite the opposite. Ha, just kidding, she doesn't dig me like that anymore, but it was great to hear from her.
Ok Gina, here are your answers. Yes, we use TALL, doesn't work as well as just memorizing for me. Kool exit sounds tho. TRC is wracking, but I really enjoy it. A couple weeks ago, we were teaching this old guy who used to be Mayan, then the Catholics baptized them, and a while later, he joined the church. His wife died recently, and it was very definitely divinely guided, because we were teaching the plan of salvation. He has such a strong testimony, that we were there till like 9:45, 30 minutes longer than normal. Totally worth it tho. We haven't got to teach him again yet tho, but I really want to. We go Friday night at 7 or 8, so if you're going to volunteer, that's when I'm there. Branch is way cool, my district isn't. Everyone in our zone is going Spanish speaking. I dig my teachers. Hro. Brown is a stud, he teaches so well and he's cool about it too. He's not uber-overbearing. We have fun, but still learn a lot. Hra. Gallacher is the other teacher. I wish we could get a different one instead of her, but then I would wish we had her again. She is way cute and it's hard to concentrate when she is teaching. And she sings like an angel. Bad news. It's ok, I still learn a ton from her. We have the best teachers I swear. There is another very good teacher, but he is too serious, that wouldn't fly with me for very long. Our class is in 18M and 5M is too far out of the way for me to pat it, sorry. Now that there is no snow, we clean toilets too, the chemicals smell so bad. Gross. I clean without gloves, more blessings that way...Just kidding.
What is this summer job in Switz? that would be so kool. What will you be doing, and how did you go about getting the interview? That's what I want to do when I get home, just float around the world working in a bunch of different places so I can keep traveling. That's a ways away thos. P.S. Si, yo tengo un libro de himnos en espanol, no necesitas comprarme.
Mom-just use my money to buy a camera, and get me a cool one. Don't send me your old one. If you can, and it's not more expensive, get it in black or green or something. Or maybe if it's only $20 more or something. But just use my dough for some (or all) of it, and get me a sweet one. I don't want an eyesore to drag around. Gratz on passing your math test. I take it you're not taking an English class. Have someone explain to-too-two to you. He he I'm funny.
That's too bad about the fence and the snow. Too bad I won't be there to help repair it. Tell Papa Smurf that the bonus points would be great and he should use my money to get them...
It's a good thing I'm young and can lose 10 lbs. a week by just eating 1 plate and 2 glasses of juice. If I couldn't lose it that quick, I would be so rolly polly right now. My weight fluctuates so much, cuz I will balloon up, then start eating less and drop it, then reward myself with 3 plates a meal then pop right back up. I've noticed that I'm a pleasure eater. I can be not hungry and put down 3 plates of good food no problem, not counting the gallon of Fresca and orange juice I wash it down with. And on the other hand, my liver and kidneys will gang up on my pancreas and eat it cuz I'm so hungry, but if there is no good food I won't mind not eating. Unfortunately (and fortunately) all the food is great here. I think there has been only 3-4 meals where there was nothing good. Ok, I'm running out of room. TTYL.
Elder Odin
P.S. I think Ramses would be an awesome name for a youngling of mine.
Howdy! What's up? All's well here. We've taught our last lesson in English, so now everything will be in espanol. I'm nervous about it, but mostly I'm really excited. It's going to be a good test of how well I can speak Spanish, and how well I can conduct the spirit speaking Spanish through me. I'm jealous, the spirit is fluent in so many languages and I'm barely fluent in English-let alone ones like Arabic or Cambodian. I saw a Preach My Gospel in those 2 languages, and they're written with a bunch of lines and dots; I'm not going to whine about Spanish anymore.
On Wednesday, we'll have been here for 5 weeks, which leaves 4 more to go before I get to see the real world again! Not that I'm not enjoying it here, but I can't wait to get outta here and get to LA. I've always wondered what other missionaries did to be more "righteous" than me and got a cooler mission, but Los Angeles will be awesome and the people I will be teaching will provide me with so many opportunities to teach, testify, and baptise. By the way, why is it that no general authorities, like the apostles, 12, or 70, served on the homefront (USA)? Looks like I won't be able to be prophet then. :(
Gina, thanks for putting that blog up. That will be cool once I leave here and do something more than sit in class all day. Mom said you're keeping the funniest stuff to yourselves...How selfish! That's like making a whole pot of Ramens then only drinking the juice. It's just not right, it's practically a sin to not eat the noodles. Do you see where I'm going with this? Good.
So I've been playing more hoop now, cuz I need to burn a few (2,384,475) calories. That's a bit harder to dominate at. There are a few really tall elders, and most of them played basketball in high school. I still do well tho, 1 or 2, maybe 3 points out of 7 each game. I've realized why I can dominate 4 square. Most of the kids play 4 square cuz they didn't get into a bball game. Not all tho. There are a few of us that are serious 4 square-ers, and can get some good games in. Umphress, Elder I mean, is getting pretty decent at it, which means I'll have to knock him out ASAP. The last game I played, I hit a nasty left hander at Elder Cooper, and got him out, so he had to go chase it. When he brought it back it was flat. My massive leftie popped it. Luckily we still have the old ball, the old lopsided greenone that is so fun to play with, cuz you can't tell which way it's going to go. I was surprised when the next day they had a brand new one for us already. I didn't get to play with it tho, I was playing basketball that period.
I'm really glad I can memorize stuff really easily. Pres. Monson said during one of his talks that if we memorize a scripture a day we will develop a photographic memory. I'm going to do it since I'm 4 weeks behind, and because on Saturday nights we have 4.15 hourse of MDT time. I memorized 6 scriptures in Spanish and English to get a start, and while doing my 1 scripture in Spanish and English a day. I"m going to work on memorizing as much of the BoM as I can. I had the first 2 chapters memorized during seminary last year cuz Bro. Bennett, my teacher, didn't think I could. Ok, so anyway we have 8.30 hours of study time on Saturday nights, with only dinner in between them so we get out of lunch at 12:15, then we have an instructor from 12:15-2:30, then an hour of PST and CST before dinner. Then at 5:15-9:00 is all MDT time. That's ridiculously long. I worked on my TRC scenario this week, so I memorized a million vocab words talking about food or relating to food in any way, plus my scriptures. That kills about an hour...I've been reading the Old Testament since I finished the BoM last week. Hra. Gallacher challenged us to read it once while we were here, and I finished like 2 weeks after that. No one else has finished yet. Reading it that quickly was actually a pretty good thing. When you finish it that quicklye, you get a good overall understanding of the people, what happened where and when, and a good general understanding of it. So the next time I finish it, I will know what's going on, and can concentrate on doctrine and not trying to figure out what's going on.
So I got a letter from S*******. She digs me, and I don't know why, I haven't worked it with her forever, quite the opposite. Ha, just kidding, she doesn't dig me like that anymore, but it was great to hear from her.
Ok Gina, here are your answers. Yes, we use TALL, doesn't work as well as just memorizing for me. Kool exit sounds tho. TRC is wracking, but I really enjoy it. A couple weeks ago, we were teaching this old guy who used to be Mayan, then the Catholics baptized them, and a while later, he joined the church. His wife died recently, and it was very definitely divinely guided, because we were teaching the plan of salvation. He has such a strong testimony, that we were there till like 9:45, 30 minutes longer than normal. Totally worth it tho. We haven't got to teach him again yet tho, but I really want to. We go Friday night at 7 or 8, so if you're going to volunteer, that's when I'm there. Branch is way cool, my district isn't. Everyone in our zone is going Spanish speaking. I dig my teachers. Hro. Brown is a stud, he teaches so well and he's cool about it too. He's not uber-overbearing. We have fun, but still learn a lot. Hra. Gallacher is the other teacher. I wish we could get a different one instead of her, but then I would wish we had her again. She is way cute and it's hard to concentrate when she is teaching. And she sings like an angel. Bad news. It's ok, I still learn a ton from her. We have the best teachers I swear. There is another very good teacher, but he is too serious, that wouldn't fly with me for very long. Our class is in 18M and 5M is too far out of the way for me to pat it, sorry. Now that there is no snow, we clean toilets too, the chemicals smell so bad. Gross. I clean without gloves, more blessings that way...Just kidding.
What is this summer job in Switz? that would be so kool. What will you be doing, and how did you go about getting the interview? That's what I want to do when I get home, just float around the world working in a bunch of different places so I can keep traveling. That's a ways away thos. P.S. Si, yo tengo un libro de himnos en espanol, no necesitas comprarme.
Mom-just use my money to buy a camera, and get me a cool one. Don't send me your old one. If you can, and it's not more expensive, get it in black or green or something. Or maybe if it's only $20 more or something. But just use my dough for some (or all) of it, and get me a sweet one. I don't want an eyesore to drag around. Gratz on passing your math test. I take it you're not taking an English class. Have someone explain to-too-two to you. He he I'm funny.
That's too bad about the fence and the snow. Too bad I won't be there to help repair it. Tell Papa Smurf that the bonus points would be great and he should use my money to get them...
It's a good thing I'm young and can lose 10 lbs. a week by just eating 1 plate and 2 glasses of juice. If I couldn't lose it that quick, I would be so rolly polly right now. My weight fluctuates so much, cuz I will balloon up, then start eating less and drop it, then reward myself with 3 plates a meal then pop right back up. I've noticed that I'm a pleasure eater. I can be not hungry and put down 3 plates of good food no problem, not counting the gallon of Fresca and orange juice I wash it down with. And on the other hand, my liver and kidneys will gang up on my pancreas and eat it cuz I'm so hungry, but if there is no good food I won't mind not eating. Unfortunately (and fortunately) all the food is great here. I think there has been only 3-4 meals where there was nothing good. Ok, I'm running out of room. TTYL.
Elder Odin
P.S. I think Ramses would be an awesome name for a youngling of mine.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Cow Brain Tacos
Hello family. as of last wednesday, i hadnt gotten the letters, but i got them later that day, and i sent one on mondayish...If ur going to buy a camera, send me the new one, not a hand me down :) that would be super. good luck with ur math test. Read DC 84:85 (i think, i dont have my scriptures with me) and follow that council, if its the wrong scripture, do what it says anyway. tell matt that i still havent gotten a letter back, so get him to read those scriptures in alma for me and tell me about them. i did get the valentines cookies, thx a lot btw.
Way cool about aimee and jason, i wanna hear all the details please. lemme know when they set a date, but tell them it has to be after im home. sry. So im just over halfway done here i think, its going by a little slow, i cant wait to get out and start speaking spanish. its getting so good, i can already talk to my teachers near perfectly and i can understand everything they say except when they use huge words that ive never heard of. i have realized that since Mac went to spain and taught us spain spanish, all the words i know are swear words in mexico. im going to have a potty mouth for a month till i get used to it, o well. Tell dad that i dont know about cat, but a lady here told me her son just got back from that same mission a month ago and he said they ate a lot of cow brain tacos... cant wait
k, gonna run
Way cool about aimee and jason, i wanna hear all the details please. lemme know when they set a date, but tell them it has to be after im home. sry. So im just over halfway done here i think, its going by a little slow, i cant wait to get out and start speaking spanish. its getting so good, i can already talk to my teachers near perfectly and i can understand everything they say except when they use huge words that ive never heard of. i have realized that since Mac went to spain and taught us spain spanish, all the words i know are swear words in mexico. im going to have a potty mouth for a month till i get used to it, o well. Tell dad that i dont know about cat, but a lady here told me her son just got back from that same mission a month ago and he said they ate a lot of cow brain tacos... cant wait
k, gonna run
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