I have forwarded you old
emails and I am starting to wonder if you got them. I am getting mildly
frustrated with the lack of communication with the email here... Any way, all
goes well. No major general authorities have spoken to us. Although one of the people who
help decide where you go on a mission did. My favorite food so far has been the
ice cream, which is from byu creamery and not inside these doors, so I can be
assured its safe... I am really enjoying some aspects of the MTC, although to
me, this feels like a prison.... absolutely no control and no choices. Which I
guess is where I am getting frustrated. I have been getting a lot of dear
elders as of late, which has been pretty nice, but I believe that I had an
initial issue with my address resulting in a backup of mail for the first
little bit. You can stop writing "sorry you aren't getting out
letters" in every letter mom :) I am getting them to be sure. I am down at
the laundry room at ~4:15 cuz that way I can be sure I wont have to fight for a
washer or a computer. I have a pretty awesome district to be sure. I get along
with everyone pretty well, a couple have pretty strong personalities. Ummm,
tell dad that he prepared me for this just fine. Half of the people can't iron
their shirt, the other half don't have needles. No one brought any type of
tools, I have run into a couple odd behaviors in my time here, one of the
strangest involving the communal showers. It is perfectly acceptable to discuss
life with you neighbor while you are both taking a shower. It was a little
weird at first but i got used to it.
Another strange thing has
been "progressing investigators". It began on our 3 day i believe,
and we were asked to teach one of our future teachers, whom we had not as of
yet met, in cebuano. This was rather difficult, seeing as I didn't know cebuano
and he keeps asking who Joseph Smith is... It has gotten a lot better though. I can teach without notes now, but I have no idea what to say half the time, the
point is I can force my points across eventually. Probably the funniest thing I
have done in progressing investigator was to ask my investigator to read a
passage from a book I got with pictures and stories in Cebuano, the idea was
good, but I made on small mistake, I mixed up the word Satan and Saint, so I
had him read the passage and said "Joseph Smith was a Satan".
I haven't gotten in any real
trouble as of yet. I got chased by a security guard and got yelled at. It may
have been warranted by the sling shot they made with elastic bands, I was just
there to film the shot, but a guard was hiding and came running at us at full
speed. And if someone runs at you at full speed, you have the instinct to run.
That is even more so when the others start running in your direction and then
proceed to hand you the slingshot.... In other fun news, you get quite a bit of
free time on P-day, so I bent some wire around and made a catapult using duct
tape, wire and some spring loaded lanyards. It was launching from the back of
our room out the door and pretty well down the hall, but I promised the Branch
President we wouldn't be involved with any more dangerous toys, so I took that
apart at the same time that we took the sling apart.
Anyway much love. I have no
real needs. I am pretty happy, but I will be sooooo much more so when I leave
the MTC and get in the real world. I now have an idea of what prison is and I
really dont want to be there hahahaa
I have taken a number of pictures, and I
recieved your converter and its pretty cool. Problem is I am forgetful in the
morning, so i forgot it, so I may be unable to send pictures today.
Love you all so much. If you
want to reply, dear elder me today :)
Kyle
P.S. Shelby, if you could do
one of the candy making days with the family and then sent me the candy, I
would flip out with joy. My whole district (14 people) want to try the sweets
(caramels, almond roca, mint bar thingy ect) you make, since I have bragged
about them :P So if you could hook a brotha up ;)
