4th Letter from MTC - Nov. 22, 2010

Hey everyone I am glad all is well! Just so you all know, I do get all the letters from the post office, e-mail, and Dear Elder it is just hard finding time to respond to all of them. I can only (technically) write letters on P-days so the ones I get during the week I try to address every Monday! I am not really sure how to tell Breck to do the music. Nobody here knows. And really anything is good. It is just for when we are studying and stuff for background music and then at night we have an hour to chill at our residence and sometimes we get pretty bored so music would be nice to have on. I have been just fine without a coat so don’t worry. I always wear that black under Armor sweater we bought at the mall under my suit coat and I brought some ear muff things that I wear also.

I can’t believe Dad is finally doing the shed.  I am so impressed haha it took him until I was gone and couldn't help to start it! I did get those shirts from Mr. Mac by the way. To answer your questions about the Dear Elder letters… If you send a Dear Elder letter before noon, I will get it the next day, Monday through Thursday because they don’t do Dear Elders on Saturday. So if you write it at 11 am on Thursday, I will get it Friday at 4 pm. Hopefully that made sense and to be honest I don’t care about Dear Elder vs. normal letters. Dear Elder is faster, easier and cheaper so I would just assume do that, plus I can read all the writing haha.

700 new kids came in on Wednesday so there are like 3,000 missionaries here now. We got some new kids in our zone, 4 of which are Tongan and one red-shirted at Utah as a nose tackle! He is BIG. I haven't gotten a chance to host yet but I probably will since I am here so much longer haha. It doesn't seem like a month has already passed but we are close to the one month mark! You told me to take photos of things but in the lunchroom we aren't supposed to have cameras so I will send photos of other things. But send back that memory card when you can.

To be honest there are a few really cute sisters haha (no distractions though!) I was actually surprised but a few in my zone are really cool/pretty. I won’t even have to go to the Philippines to get my wife mom :)

The Tagalog is coming along really well! I can understand pretty much anything. Saying things is harder but I can still do it most of the time. The hardest part is conjugating verbs because English has run, ran, running....where Tagalog has like ten ways to conjugate "to run" depending on who is doing it, where you are doing it, and when you are doing it(past, present, future.) But overall it is good. This week I have to write a sacrament talk in Tagalog on baptism haha.

How are the dolphins doing? I have found that besides missing you all (family and friends) I miss football a ton!  We can’t play football here. All we can play is volleyball and basketball now because, due to the snow, the grass field is closed. To be honest it has barely snowed! Yesterday was the first real snow and there is only like one centimeter, if that.

Springdale sounded fun I bet you all had a blast!

Everyone has been amazing, I have been getting letters from lots of people back home and it makes my day for sure! I am excited for Thanksgiving because I hear they have a big devotional with one of the first presidency or one of the twelve? Either is cool.

I never told anyone back home… cuz I didn't want mom worried… but both my companion and I were really sick the last couple weeks with a cold I guess…. coughing and congestion, but we are both coming out of it now!

Anyway I gotta run, I love you all!

PS: If you have time you could send me some garments. No rush though! Also this will sound weird but could you send me a jump rope. Just a cheap one is fine but something to burn time with haha thank you. Love you all!

Britt, sorry I don’t have much time but I will write you a letter! Love you!

Also tell dad I am writing him specifically a letter but I ran out of time so you'll get to my letter Wednesday or something