Goodbye to MTC -12/14

Tuesday, Dec 14

Im sorry this weeks message is really short... Iv spent all day helping my companion get shipped off to texas and then start packing myself. We also got to go to the temple. We have choir practice in only a few minutes!!

 

This week has been pretty good. I am feeling a lot better. Actually 100 percent now! I am definitely ready to get out of here, I am mostly packed. All I need to do is throw all my clothes in the suitcase. YEAAH! Im leaving a whole week before others in my district.  So they are all sad, but excited for me. Same with my teachers, I am going to really miss all of them. Its exciting too, because all of them are planning on going to school here in utah.

 

This week I got to be a host missionary (help the new kids) It was a blast. I thought our departure was really sad,until I saw some missionaries crying twice as much. It was definitely an awesome experience. It was cool to shake the parents hand, and assure them their son is going to be fine. In a meeting before, they told us to not to speak in our mission language so we dont freak the missionaries out. A lot of the people I helped were foreign, Two of them from london. It was cool to talk to them. They though utah was warm =]

 

I sent a bunch of pictures home, you can open them right away and look. But dont open the cylinder package!! Thats for christmas!!!

 

I got some letters from a lot of people this week. I feel bad because I had no time to write letters back today. Tell Sister Homer thanks a ton for the letters from primary. I loved them. And tell mark I say hi too! Aunt Jen sent me a lovely card, So thanks aunt Jen! Same with grandma and grandpa!! And thank you Scotts for your package. It brightened my day!! I found the letters to be hilarious. Especially Darrens buff picture.

 

Thanks for everything. Sorry again this letter is short. I Will talk to you in two days!!! Thats still ok right? Thursday late at night.. sometime before 12:20.

 

I love you all and i will keep you in my prayers. Talk to you soon!

 

Tina's note:  We did talk for about one hour on the phone Thursday night.  He called from the airport.  He was traveling with 7 other missionaries that were going to Nicaragua also.  He had not met them before, they were in different districts in the MTC.  They had a layover in Atlanta for 4 hours before going to Nicaragua. .  He is excited to start living in Nicaragua and meet and serve the people there.