Dear Mom,
Thanks so much for the letter. I
love hearing about how things are going back home, and I'm glad to hear
they're going well. I hope Katherines back gets better though. Haha I
bet James was thrilled with his farewell topic. Happy late mothers day
again mom, I think I technically broke the rules to send that to you,
but I figured it was a good cause. Thanks so much for all you've done
for me and for all the help you gave me while getting ready to go to the
MTC. It really means a lot to me, and all the vitamins and stuff that I
thought I would never use have already been useful, so thanks for
making me take it.
Oh by the way, Rebecca said she was trying to figure out how I
was doing in a letter she sent me and she said their weren't any emails
or anything being sent out with my updates, so if you could try to do
that and post on my facebook that would be awesome. I know Ashley was
wondering about some of that too, because I honestly don't have time to write tons of letters to everyone and this is my main letter each week
haha. P-day is kinda crazy busy. I'm still doing well in the MTC though,
I'm still going crazy and now I've gained about 10 pounds, but I'm
getting used to it. Some bad news is our visas might not be coming, and
some people think we're going to be reassigned to the states for a
transfer, but every time I think about it I get a peaceful feeling like
we're going to Denmark. I'm perfectly willing to go somewhere else if I
need to, but I just feel like we're going to Denmark, and we all had a
fast and I know a whole ton of missionaries and members in Denmark have
been praying for us to get our visas. They also randomly moved our
travel day back to the 21st so we suspect they might be on their way.
I'm really excited to go, and I can't wait to escape the MTC haha. It's
great here, but I can't sit still all day long and be happy about it.
The language is going well too, I feel like I talk like a three year
old, but I can generally say what I want to now and I'm starting to
understand more. We learned a great phrase you might enjoy its "Sadan
skal geden barberes" Which literally means "thats how you shave the
goat" and is used to say thats how you do it pretty much. There are lots
of other funny things like the litteral translation for eyelashes is
eye teeter totters haha. I really like Danish though, and I'm really
enjoying it. Thanks for the package too, I'm really happy to have more
ties, and I really like all the pictures too. i've actually been wishing
I had some pictures of people lately, so thanks for that. I'm going to
reply to the other email now so sorry if this isn't as long as you would
like. Jeg Elsker dig!
Dear Dad,
It's great to here from you, and
I'm glad everythings going so well. You should read mom's email too,
because I'm going to try to send different things to both of you. I
can't believe Katherines farewell is in a week! It seems crazy that it's
been that long already. It seriously feels like I've only been here for
a week, yet every day feels like an eternity haha. I'm really excited
to get to Denmark though. I'm not sure if I'm going to miss the MTC food
like you did though besides
the fact that it's unlimited. We had a TRC skype conversation with
someone from Denmark, and he said his favorite thing about Denmark was
the food and gave us a big list of things we have to try. I know there's
going to be a lot of culture shock too and I know it's going to be
hard, but I am ridiculously excited to just get out there. I feel like
it will be an amazing adventure, and I'll be helping others the whole
time. I also won't be sitting down all day. according to our teachers
we'll only have about 4 hours of light in the day in Denmark during the
winter, so that will be a change too haha. I'm just really excited to
go, I feel like I'm going crazy in the MTC. I'm still loving it though
and we've been having great experiences. Supposedly theres a special
speaker coming tonight for the devotional, and I think it might be
someone from the quorum of the twelve, so I'm really excited. We
lilstened to a great talk by Elder Holland on Sunday from
a previous MTC devotional. Elder Hollands wife shared with us that in
Elder Hollands patriarchal blessing it said he had been prepared for
thousands of years for his earthly ministry. I thought that was amazing,
and I thought you might like to hear that. I also really like his talk,
he focused a lot on how your mission should change your life forever
and should effect everything you do when you get back. Another thing I
liked was he said we are on the Lords errand, and we have to do it his
way. We have to be exactly obedient, even if we don't understand the
rules. I decided after that to try to do what he said. I don't have any
big problems with the rules, but occasionally I would do something like
rolling up my sleaves on a sunny day when I was to warm, because I think
that's a dumb rule, but even if I think it's dumb I'm going to try to
stick to it. I'm loving my mission so far and I can't wait to continue
in Denmark. Jeg elsker dig.
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