Thank you so much for all the letters this week and for the starburst jellybeans, Mom! They are delicio as always. If you want to send girlscout cookies to all of us it might be easiest to send one box with individualized stuff inside, if that makes sense at all... If you want to send them to each of my comps then they have the same address except it says CZH-PRA instead of SLO-CRO. Same po box and everything else.
And thank you for the olympic update! that was fun.
to answer some questions: yes, you can use dearelder.com while i'm out in the field, but it will be delivered to the mission home instead of to me and I'll only get it when I visit there.
I haven't seen Justin's aunt yet in the bookstore, we're going today right after this so maybe then.
The MTC doesn't really feel like a different country, it feels more like a separate world. Like the outside world doesn't exist anymore. When we walk up to the temple and see other people in normal clothes, etc, it's always really weird. And when we went to the BYU police office to get fingerprints it was really strange to be outside of the MTC campus surrounded by normal people.
So. It's good to hear updates: Jesse, it's so crazy that you're so far ahead of schedule, etc. and that you have to stay home from now on! How are you dealing with it? I mean, is it hard to be in your house all the time and not get out of it? And I love hearing about the kids. We saw a little girl - 7 mos. - today when we were walking back from the temple and she was so cute and it was bizarre kinda to see a little person. And I'm glad your birthday was good, Mom. Did you like the picture on the card? I thought of you when I saw it and thought it was very cute. We got to the temple every p-day for a session and we walk up there every Sunday to take pictures, etc. and see other missionaries. From my high school I've seen Tia Ray, Starley Nuckles, Kaitlyn Pallas, Katelyn Black, Kollin McMullin, Elder Weinheimer, Elder Wilkes, and I randomly started talking to an Elder from Snow Canyon that I vaguely recognized but don't remember his name. It was his first day, so it was funny.
I have class all day all the time - between breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner and between dinner and bed. It's alright, because I really like my teachers and I'm learning a lot about Croatian and teaching and etc.
For pdays we go to the temple, do laundry, write family, have personal and companionship study, go to the bookstore - laundry takes a long time so we spend it writing letters to people. Which reminds me that yes, I would like the addresses for my Grandmas and any other family that you think of. It also reminds me that I wrote to Sister Blackburn and I heard back from her and she said Jack Amundsen is going to England on his mission and he also gets to go to the England MTC, instead of the Provo one. Bizarre, huh?
Croatian is coming along - mostly now I just need to build up my vocabulary, I've learned a ton about the grammar. We have tasks every Thursday night (like greet someone, say your testimony, get to know someone) that we have to do in the language, so that helps me stay focused on learning the words so that I can actually speak when I have to do that. It's really cool. Uh... Znam da Bog je nas Nebeski Otac i znam da Bog obnovio njegovo evandelje kroz proroku Josephu Smithu. Znam da Bog odgovori nase molitve. Uh... Hocete li uciti vise? haha. Um, there are quite a few accents missing from the some of the c's and d's, so I hope if you throw that all into a translator you'll get something back.
I like Croatian because they just leave out all the "the"s and "i"s and "he"s. Those are all just implied when you talk about stuff. So gender is usually based on the ending of a word and when you congugate a verb you know already who you're talking about by the way you congugate it. I like that. It can be harder to remember sometimes because in my brain I take the English words and translate them into Croatian, so I might be thinking "I know" and then "Ja znam," but they usually just say "Znam" so sometimes I get caught up in English language trends. If that makes sense.
The days blur together a lot, because we're doing the same thing etc. and so it's pretty bizarre that it's already been three weeks this wednesday. Oh and we had a really good lesson last night with our investigator, but then we heard some stuff about him, and we're not sure if he's a real investigator or if he's just acting. so that's kinda weird. i'll tell you more when i find out.
And it was Sister Mart's birthday yesterday, it was fun. It was women's (mother's) day in Mongolia and so she got to call home to her family and talk for a few minutes. Which is cool, because she hasn't heard from them at all. Her parents don't have e-mail.
Gym is awesome, I usually play four square and it is so much fun! and it can be pretty intense sometimes, which is awesome, because the volleyball isn't intense for me at all, so it's boring, but the four square is super fun.
And I've heard from Alicia and Rebekah so that's really fun. I like getting letters from you all (dearelders are awesome) and from others. And pictures, too, thx Kelsey! Your kids are always so cute! HOpe you all had really good weeks, and will next week, too, etc.
Volim vi! Sister Laws
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