This week has been great! but I´m really really really really really excited to leave and I think I leave the mtc here on the 14th.
The hurricane didn´t hit here. None of the missionaries here even knew about it until this morning when everyone started checking their emails. I guess ever since they built the temple here a hurricane hasn't hit Santo Domingo. But this week´s been pretty much the same as all the other weeks. I don´t know if you remember that yellowish flowery goldish tie that we got at missionary mall but all the latins love that tie. I always get tons of compliments when I where it and sometimes when I come back to my room a find a few spanish speaking elders coveting over it. So i traded it with a nicaraguan elder for this way sweet 70´s polyester tie that looks like someone just cut the fabric out of a really old couch with nacho stains. It´s awesome!!
It´s fun to talk to all the latin elders. A lot of the english they know they learned from watching movies, so it´s not uncommon to hear them unknowingly say malas palabras. One night we were teasing Elder Vargaz and he jokingly yelled some certain words at us without knowing what any of them meant and then a elder next door knocked on our door asking who was screaming the profanitites.... it was really funny. and he was all like¨I not know they are bad!¨ It probably wasn´t that funny, but things that wouldn´t have been funny 1 month and a half ago are now hilarious. We´ve just been teaching him which words are wrong as they start to pop up.
oh yeah! muchisimo thanks for the package! I got it a few days ago. My roommates are very appreciative too. Also do you think you could send a envelope with a bunch of pictures of friends and stuff over the last year or whenever? You could just wait to send themwhen I get my first address but all the pictures are in the folder my pictures on my computer. You could call jonathan to help you or something... but don't send them if they costs a lot.
I started playing volleyball for gym recently. It's a lot of fun, but we play on the concrete so sometimes it gets scary... Gym is one of the best parts of the day. I really like lunch too. The rice and beans are still soooooo goooooood and I always leave lunch way stuffed. But I hope all is going well at home! It's good to hear that you both got classes started! love you!
Elder,
Young
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Thursday August 26, 2010
Padres!
Thanks for the letters! and thanks mucho for the package! I didn´t realize how expensive it is to send packages out here so don´t worry about sending another one. Last Tuesday we got to go to a store and twas suuuuppppeeerrrrr biiiieeennnn!! All the American type food is really expensive here but there´s lots of other native stuff that´s super cheap. It was funny to see the Spanish versions of lots of stuff like pringles and things.
All the Haitians left which was sad but all the native Spanish speaking elders came in today! They split up our trio so now it´s just elder waters and I. Elder Holt from Kaysville is now in our room and a elder from Santiago will be in our room too! I´m excited to practice Spanish with native speakers throughout the day! I´m really really really really excited to get into the field. Time has gone by sooo fast so it seems so close! I can´t send you pictures until my first pday in the field but it´s soo pretty here and I think you´d really like them! I feel like I´m kinda sorta a little bit starting to be able to understand Dominican español but not really...
no sé lo que debo escribir, entonces voy a escribir cualquier cosa que está en mi mente. Fuimos al templo hoy y fue bien. Cuando estaba en frente de las puertas del temple, me doy cuenta que yo había olvidad mi recomend del templo. Yo sé que esta iglesia es verdadera!
I´m not sure how grammatically correct that was but thanks so much for everything you do, mom and dad! Love you!
Elder Young
Thanks for the letters! and thanks mucho for the package! I didn´t realize how expensive it is to send packages out here so don´t worry about sending another one. Last Tuesday we got to go to a store and twas suuuuppppeeerrrrr biiiieeennnn!! All the American type food is really expensive here but there´s lots of other native stuff that´s super cheap. It was funny to see the Spanish versions of lots of stuff like pringles and things.
All the Haitians left which was sad but all the native Spanish speaking elders came in today! They split up our trio so now it´s just elder waters and I. Elder Holt from Kaysville is now in our room and a elder from Santiago will be in our room too! I´m excited to practice Spanish with native speakers throughout the day! I´m really really really really excited to get into the field. Time has gone by sooo fast so it seems so close! I can´t send you pictures until my first pday in the field but it´s soo pretty here and I think you´d really like them! I feel like I´m kinda sorta a little bit starting to be able to understand Dominican español but not really...
no sé lo que debo escribir, entonces voy a escribir cualquier cosa que está en mi mente. Fuimos al templo hoy y fue bien. Cuando estaba en frente de las puertas del temple, me doy cuenta que yo había olvidad mi recomend del templo. Yo sé que esta iglesia es verdadera!
I´m not sure how grammatically correct that was but thanks so much for everything you do, mom and dad! Love you!
Elder Young
August 19, 2010
Madreee/Padreee/Familiaaaaaa,
That's exciting school has started and things! I wish I was there to help you get your classroom put together and that jungle theme sounds quite fantastic!
Thanks for getting that package ready! Sorry but if you haven't sent it can you put a big thing of M & m's in it, and star bursts, and whatever... the food here is really good but I miss all the vending machine food I've enjoyed for the last year. They had the same vendies at the mtc in porvo as I had in the dorms so now living without a magical swipy card that never ran out of money for vendy food has been really tough.
This week's been sooooppaaaiiirrr. I can't believe I've already been here for 2 weeks, I'm almost done with my first missionary planner! The food is really good but has been doing bad things to everyone's digestive systems. Sister Hendricks the mtc president's wife walks around with a plate full of peptobismal pills and hands them out to people with a spoon during lunch. It's really funny.
The weather here is really random. I think it's way hot but It seems more bearable to be outside in the middle of the day here than it was at home. Sometimes there's crazy rain storms that last for about 10 minutes and there'll be a lake in the parking lot but then by the time we get out to gym it'll be dry again. And a few days ago it was thundering so loud that car alarms were going off! I really like gym here, I play basketball everyday, and it's awesome. I think gym in provo was a little better but it's way fun here. Everyone get's so sweaty but yeah... It's still lots of fun!
The two highlights of the week are when we get to leave the mtc. We get to leave on monday for the university and then thursday to do service at the university. There's tons of people who drive around on these little dirtbike/moped things. They basiclly look like a little bicycle with a motor being held on with a belt. Driving here would be way scary too. Like there was a 8 lane intersection I think, or just 4 lanes crossing eachother on each direction and the traffic lights weren't working, so all the cars just kinda blare their horn and drive through... I'm amazed that none of us died trying to cross the street getting to the university. And the power goes out a lot too. If you look at all the street electricity pole things there's just like 9,000 wires all going in to them. And some wires will be hanging down and it's really unorganized. I guess since the power goes out since a lot a lot the people who live here will find a way to just run a wire from their house and connect it to the other wires and steal the electricty.. The mtc president was saying that the reason we'll see people missing arms is because they'll be up trying to get connected to the electricity and then the power will turn on as they're doing it.. it's really sad..... but on that note,
All our teachers are really cool! Hermana Parra is awesome, she's way nice and is one of the easier teachers to understand because she talks a lot clearer. Hermano Sanchez is way cool too, he laughs really really really hard at everything, so class is really fun with him. Hermano Rubio always comes with Hermano Sanchez, he just got off his mission a few months ago and he´s really fun to talk with. I love speaking in spanish to people, I think I probably sound like an idiot when I´m talking to people but It´s way fun! Wellllllll my time is up but I hope all is well at home!
Les amo!
Elder Young
That's exciting school has started and things! I wish I was there to help you get your classroom put together and that jungle theme sounds quite fantastic!
Thanks for getting that package ready! Sorry but if you haven't sent it can you put a big thing of M & m's in it, and star bursts, and whatever... the food here is really good but I miss all the vending machine food I've enjoyed for the last year. They had the same vendies at the mtc in porvo as I had in the dorms so now living without a magical swipy card that never ran out of money for vendy food has been really tough.
This week's been sooooppaaaiiirrr. I can't believe I've already been here for 2 weeks, I'm almost done with my first missionary planner! The food is really good but has been doing bad things to everyone's digestive systems. Sister Hendricks the mtc president's wife walks around with a plate full of peptobismal pills and hands them out to people with a spoon during lunch. It's really funny.
The weather here is really random. I think it's way hot but It seems more bearable to be outside in the middle of the day here than it was at home. Sometimes there's crazy rain storms that last for about 10 minutes and there'll be a lake in the parking lot but then by the time we get out to gym it'll be dry again. And a few days ago it was thundering so loud that car alarms were going off! I really like gym here, I play basketball everyday, and it's awesome. I think gym in provo was a little better but it's way fun here. Everyone get's so sweaty but yeah... It's still lots of fun!
The two highlights of the week are when we get to leave the mtc. We get to leave on monday for the university and then thursday to do service at the university. There's tons of people who drive around on these little dirtbike/moped things. They basiclly look like a little bicycle with a motor being held on with a belt. Driving here would be way scary too. Like there was a 8 lane intersection I think, or just 4 lanes crossing eachother on each direction and the traffic lights weren't working, so all the cars just kinda blare their horn and drive through... I'm amazed that none of us died trying to cross the street getting to the university. And the power goes out a lot too. If you look at all the street electricity pole things there's just like 9,000 wires all going in to them. And some wires will be hanging down and it's really unorganized. I guess since the power goes out since a lot a lot the people who live here will find a way to just run a wire from their house and connect it to the other wires and steal the electricty.. The mtc president was saying that the reason we'll see people missing arms is because they'll be up trying to get connected to the electricity and then the power will turn on as they're doing it.. it's really sad..... but on that note,
All our teachers are really cool! Hermana Parra is awesome, she's way nice and is one of the easier teachers to understand because she talks a lot clearer. Hermano Sanchez is way cool too, he laughs really really really hard at everything, so class is really fun with him. Hermano Rubio always comes with Hermano Sanchez, he just got off his mission a few months ago and he´s really fun to talk with. I love speaking in spanish to people, I think I probably sound like an idiot when I´m talking to people but It´s way fun! Wellllllll my time is up but I hope all is well at home!
Les amo!
Elder Young
Thursday August 12, 2010
Familia,
I really like the DR! Everyday for lunch we have some kind of rice and some kind of beans with some kind of meat. It's different everyday but always tastes sooo good! The teachers are awesome! Most of them speak at least some english but no one is allowed to speak english in front of them, only spanish. I think my spanish is really coming along, I've been reading through preach my gospel in just spanish and have been understanding a lot of it. My companions are not all that great at spanish, so it kinda stinks cause I can't really practice my spanish anywhere accept the classroom since they don't understand much. I also feel like being in a trio makes me miss out on a lot of practice since we have to split up the talking between 3 people rather than just 2. And whenever we're practicing giving a lesson, one of the elders has these note cards with questions like, "What does family mean to you?", or "How is your relationship with god?".. And when we're giving the lesson we'll be talking about the restoration or something, and then look at him at one of those critical moments hoping he'll bare his testimony about the book of mormon or something, and it always ends up randomly being one of those questions in not the best situation.. it's funny but yeah...
Every monday we get to go to the university and walk around and talk with people.. All the dominicans are soo nice and it's so much fun! While we were walking down to the university there were tons of people driving around on little dirt bike type things and people would be honking at us. Our teachers gave us pamphlets and a book of mormon to hand out. The first people we talked to, there was 2 guys and 1 girl. One guy kinda listened to what we were saying and the other started whistling and pulled out his cell phone and pretended to talk to someone when we came up to him. Later we found a guy leaning up against a wall and we all started talking to him. His name was Moíses and he was way awesome. While we were talking to him, an english speaker came up to us wanted a english Book of mormon so my companions talked to him while I talked to Moíses. I told him all about the book of mormon and the bible. And i read some of moroni 10 with him and told him about the promise and showed him 3 nephi 11 and told him he could read and pray about it. And then he was asking me about where church is and how much he had to pay! I could really feel the spirit and it was really cool! I told him it didn´t cost anything and gave him a phone number to call and everything. It was way awesome! The heat isn´t as bad as everyone says. During gym everyone gets soooo sweaty but it still seems bareable. One second it´ll be totally sunny outside and then it´ll be pouring rain for a bit.
There´s a district of 7 haitian elders who are all way cool. They all speak some english and they´re way fun. I think at least some of them are from the more wealthy areas of haiti because some of them talk about all the video games and stuff they play at home and they make haiti sound just like america. They´re all way cool! Today we got to go to to the university to pick up trash for service. This random guy came yelling at my companions and i while we were cleaning and started talking to us about how great mormons are. I think dad would like it here too, everyone likes obama! But as we were talking to this guy then like the president of the university came by and said he was thankful for our work... I think... I couldn't really understand anything... But it was lots of fun! There are tons of lizards all over the place and it´s way sweet! So we tried to pick up trash wherever lizards were...
If it's not way expensive to send stuff down here could you send me some snacks that aren't meltable? Like some beef jerkey and skittles and maybe some of the gater aid powder stuff?? and some slippers too? just some cheap ones that are really small to store? but i hope kansas is great!!
Love, Elder Young
I really like the DR! Everyday for lunch we have some kind of rice and some kind of beans with some kind of meat. It's different everyday but always tastes sooo good! The teachers are awesome! Most of them speak at least some english but no one is allowed to speak english in front of them, only spanish. I think my spanish is really coming along, I've been reading through preach my gospel in just spanish and have been understanding a lot of it. My companions are not all that great at spanish, so it kinda stinks cause I can't really practice my spanish anywhere accept the classroom since they don't understand much. I also feel like being in a trio makes me miss out on a lot of practice since we have to split up the talking between 3 people rather than just 2. And whenever we're practicing giving a lesson, one of the elders has these note cards with questions like, "What does family mean to you?", or "How is your relationship with god?".. And when we're giving the lesson we'll be talking about the restoration or something, and then look at him at one of those critical moments hoping he'll bare his testimony about the book of mormon or something, and it always ends up randomly being one of those questions in not the best situation.. it's funny but yeah...
Every monday we get to go to the university and walk around and talk with people.. All the dominicans are soo nice and it's so much fun! While we were walking down to the university there were tons of people driving around on little dirt bike type things and people would be honking at us. Our teachers gave us pamphlets and a book of mormon to hand out. The first people we talked to, there was 2 guys and 1 girl. One guy kinda listened to what we were saying and the other started whistling and pulled out his cell phone and pretended to talk to someone when we came up to him. Later we found a guy leaning up against a wall and we all started talking to him. His name was Moíses and he was way awesome. While we were talking to him, an english speaker came up to us wanted a english Book of mormon so my companions talked to him while I talked to Moíses. I told him all about the book of mormon and the bible. And i read some of moroni 10 with him and told him about the promise and showed him 3 nephi 11 and told him he could read and pray about it. And then he was asking me about where church is and how much he had to pay! I could really feel the spirit and it was really cool! I told him it didn´t cost anything and gave him a phone number to call and everything. It was way awesome! The heat isn´t as bad as everyone says. During gym everyone gets soooo sweaty but it still seems bareable. One second it´ll be totally sunny outside and then it´ll be pouring rain for a bit.
There´s a district of 7 haitian elders who are all way cool. They all speak some english and they´re way fun. I think at least some of them are from the more wealthy areas of haiti because some of them talk about all the video games and stuff they play at home and they make haiti sound just like america. They´re all way cool! Today we got to go to to the university to pick up trash for service. This random guy came yelling at my companions and i while we were cleaning and started talking to us about how great mormons are. I think dad would like it here too, everyone likes obama! But as we were talking to this guy then like the president of the university came by and said he was thankful for our work... I think... I couldn't really understand anything... But it was lots of fun! There are tons of lizards all over the place and it´s way sweet! So we tried to pick up trash wherever lizards were...
If it's not way expensive to send stuff down here could you send me some snacks that aren't meltable? Like some beef jerkey and skittles and maybe some of the gater aid powder stuff?? and some slippers too? just some cheap ones that are really small to store? but i hope kansas is great!!
Love, Elder Young
Friday Aug 6, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Subject: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!estoy aqui!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hoolllaaa
I´m here in the dr!!!!!!!!! me amo este pais mas que todas las otras!!! When we first got to the airport we were all way confused cause everyone only spoke spanish. They gave us these papers to fill out on the plane and then when we got to the airport we were supposed to hand them out but there were like 8 different lines to get in. And we weren´t sure if we were tourists or visitors or immigrants so we tried to talk and the airport people would point us where to go. So we just kinda followed the crowd. When we got outside of the airport there were tons of people blocked off by a fence holding up signs and stuff welcoming people and it was really loud. fue muy raro. but i felt like a celebrity even though none of them were there for me. Then luckily we saw some random dude yelling Elderes at us. So we followed him to this bus where all these random dominican guys started grabbing our bags and puting them on the bus and then asking for money.. it was awesome!! Like 3 seconds after leaving the air port we all broke out in sweat even though it was dark outside. Driving the bus through the city was awesome too. THere were lots of people outside and all this trash everywhere. The guy sitting next to me was throwing up in a plastic sandwich bag I gave him and everyone smelled cause we were sweating so much, but still, it was awesome!
The mtc is cool, the juice here is soooooooooooooooooo good. and the bananas ajklñsjklsdj There are also like 6 haitian elders here that I met this morning who we could barely communicate with. There´s only like 36 ish elders here, and 30 are american, 6 hatian. The teachers are all way cool, and they make fun of us a lot and it´s really funny. We just went on a tour type thing of the temple and stuff and it´s soo pretty. my companions are awesome, i´m in a trio. and tis time to go.
'elder young
here are my addresses
Elder Jeffrey Young
Avenida Bolivar 825
Los Robles, Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
for pouch mail
elder jeffrey young
dominican republic mtc
p o box 30150
50 east north temple
salt lake city, ut 84150
hoolllaaa
I´m here in the dr!!!!!!!!! me amo este pais mas que todas las otras!!! When we first got to the airport we were all way confused cause everyone only spoke spanish. They gave us these papers to fill out on the plane and then when we got to the airport we were supposed to hand them out but there were like 8 different lines to get in. And we weren´t sure if we were tourists or visitors or immigrants so we tried to talk and the airport people would point us where to go. So we just kinda followed the crowd. When we got outside of the airport there were tons of people blocked off by a fence holding up signs and stuff welcoming people and it was really loud. fue muy raro. but i felt like a celebrity even though none of them were there for me. Then luckily we saw some random dude yelling Elderes at us. So we followed him to this bus where all these random dominican guys started grabbing our bags and puting them on the bus and then asking for money.. it was awesome!! Like 3 seconds after leaving the air port we all broke out in sweat even though it was dark outside. Driving the bus through the city was awesome too. THere were lots of people outside and all this trash everywhere. The guy sitting next to me was throwing up in a plastic sandwich bag I gave him and everyone smelled cause we were sweating so much, but still, it was awesome!
The mtc is cool, the juice here is soooooooooooooooooo good. and the bananas ajklñsjklsdj There are also like 6 haitian elders here that I met this morning who we could barely communicate with. There´s only like 36 ish elders here, and 30 are american, 6 hatian. The teachers are all way cool, and they make fun of us a lot and it´s really funny. We just went on a tour type thing of the temple and stuff and it´s soo pretty. my companions are awesome, i´m in a trio. and tis time to go.
'elder young
here are my addresses
Elder Jeffrey Young
Avenida Bolivar 825
Los Robles, Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
for pouch mail
elder jeffrey young
dominican republic mtc
p o box 30150
50 east north temple
salt lake city, ut 84150
Wednesday, August 06, 2010
Hola!
Thanks so much for the letters padres! It's good to be able to go back to the residence halls and have mail to reeeeaaaddd. I think I can call but I'm not sure how it all works, but when we call I think it'll be pretty early in the morning.
I feel like I don't really have much to share in this email since everyweek is pretty repetitve here but it's still been great! But I met up with emilee and said goodbye! It was sad, but I'm super excited to be in the dominican republic. I feel like have learned a lot of spanish here but at the same time I'm not sure if I've came all that far, so I'm excited to be emersed in spanish! My companion and I have been listening to conference talks in spanish and I can somewhat kinda sorta understand what's happening most of the time but everytime we listen we can catch a little bit more.. And I can read preach my gospel in spanish and understand most of it, but I have the vocab of a 2.8 year old and it's really hard for me to form sentences so I hope I can survive the first few days in the DR. We started packing last night, and I think we're going to be really rushed in our packing. Usually elders take a afternoon off from classes to pack, but none of us really thought to do that and since today is P-day we're going to try fitting packing in between our letter writing and laundry.
I scored my first mtc soccer goal last week which was pretty awesome! The other day we played a macth of our zone vs the two other zones and we lost, but life is still goood. The talks and devotionals have been really great! Yesterday a really funny southern lady talked with a really thick southern accent, and her husband gave a really good talk about having faith and serving dilligently.
I've still been seeing lots of friends from BYU. Jackson left to Argentina yesterday on tuesday. And I saw Sam Swenson this morning before the temple. Every wednesday I always sit at the end of the cafeteria table closest to the entrance so I can watch all the new missionaries come in. I love it because I always see a few friends from byu and I'm excited to see Casey and Eric come in! I'm going to really miss seeing friends here and I'm really going to miss my teachers. They're both way cooool.
I don't think I need a need a new memory card. I can just send you pictures on email when I get a non mtc computer. but thanks for being a gran familia!!!
love Elderrr Young
Thanks so much for the letters padres! It's good to be able to go back to the residence halls and have mail to reeeeaaaddd. I think I can call but I'm not sure how it all works, but when we call I think it'll be pretty early in the morning.
I feel like I don't really have much to share in this email since everyweek is pretty repetitve here but it's still been great! But I met up with emilee and said goodbye! It was sad, but I'm super excited to be in the dominican republic. I feel like have learned a lot of spanish here but at the same time I'm not sure if I've came all that far, so I'm excited to be emersed in spanish! My companion and I have been listening to conference talks in spanish and I can somewhat kinda sorta understand what's happening most of the time but everytime we listen we can catch a little bit more.. And I can read preach my gospel in spanish and understand most of it, but I have the vocab of a 2.8 year old and it's really hard for me to form sentences so I hope I can survive the first few days in the DR. We started packing last night, and I think we're going to be really rushed in our packing. Usually elders take a afternoon off from classes to pack, but none of us really thought to do that and since today is P-day we're going to try fitting packing in between our letter writing and laundry.
I scored my first mtc soccer goal last week which was pretty awesome! The other day we played a macth of our zone vs the two other zones and we lost, but life is still goood. The talks and devotionals have been really great! Yesterday a really funny southern lady talked with a really thick southern accent, and her husband gave a really good talk about having faith and serving dilligently.
I've still been seeing lots of friends from BYU. Jackson left to Argentina yesterday on tuesday. And I saw Sam Swenson this morning before the temple. Every wednesday I always sit at the end of the cafeteria table closest to the entrance so I can watch all the new missionaries come in. I love it because I always see a few friends from byu and I'm excited to see Casey and Eric come in! I'm going to really miss seeing friends here and I'm really going to miss my teachers. They're both way cooool.
I don't think I need a need a new memory card. I can just send you pictures on email when I get a non mtc computer. but thanks for being a gran familia!!!
love Elderrr Young
Wednesday 7/28/2010
hollllaaa familia!!
Thanks so much for the package and all the food! my roomates appreciate it too! What is happening at home?! And how is being true empty nesters?? I love all thy mail but all you really talk about is me in them...
The mtc is greeeaaatt!! The temple reopened and we got to go to a session this morning. It was really hard to stay awake but it was still superrr great! We ate breakfast in the cafeteria there and it was super delicioso! Last thursday we got our travel plans for the dominican republic mtc. I leave august 5th at 3 am! Even though the mtc here is great I'm super excited to get out of here and go to the dominican republic. We hear rumors of weekly beach bbq's at the dr mtc. I get the feeling the rumors might not be true, but i'm still mega excited. I guess you get to go to some university by the mtc and walk around and contact and stuff with people who aren't actually missionaries! And I've heard it's all spanish there so I think the language will come a lot better there than here. I've learned lots of new vocab and been refreshed on some of the grammer, but I haven't really been taught anything grammer-wise that I hadn't already learned in HS spanish. So I'm excited to go to the DR for that reason toooooo! And I'm super duper excited to get to take a nap on the plane over there/ slash be in the real world! It's weird how secluded the mtc is. Everynight they call in over a intercom and tell us to go in our rooms and that it's quiet time. then 15 min later they tell everyone lights out. It makes me feel somewhat slightly like unto a prisoner. But a good kind of prisoner who is learning lots of useful new things.
In one of the halls here there's a picture of a missionary baptising someone in the ocean in the Dominican republic and it makes me soooo desireous to go over there!
We practice our lessons a lot but it's always just with volunteer members or or other missionaries. So I'm excited to teach a non member because I get the feeling teaching here is very realistic. Last week we taught a die hard catholic named Pablo and his brother Fernando who was hardcore atheist. We only made it 5 min in the lesson and then we made them play a different role since it hurt my brain cause I didn't know how to teach two people at once who were so different.
The devotionals are always way good. Last Sunday the speaker at the fireside showed a whole bunch of old LDS commercials and gave like short little thoughts with each one. Some of the commercials were super cheesey but it was fun to watch them! Yesterday the speaker was way good too! HE talked about all the different ways to invite the spirit. After each devotional our district always gets together and talks about highlights from the devotional and we talk about how we could apply those things to our district. Last night we ended up having a 60 min Oprah Winfrey session with a deeply enourmous 12 man heart-to-heart discussion. It was super good, and we all decided to start having a little less fun throughout the day. Sorry if these emails don't make sense, it's hard to type so fast and make coherent sentences and the computers keep freezing so we loose time.
Soccer is basicly the most exciting part of the day. It's the main thing I look forward to. I think it's helpful for the going to the dr to since it's 8009094585 degrees outside when we play. I saw braden come in last wednesday and I think there's a few friends from byu coming in tomorrow. last sat night I met with lots of friends from byu after all our planning and stuff and we took a ward picture! It's awesome seeing everyone all the time!
I'm thinking maybe you could wait to do a blog on my facebook untill I get out into the mission. Since even though everyday is super awesome here and I feel way happy, everyweek is about the same so I feel like I don't have many things to write. But could you put my dr mtc address in my facebook and write like mail here after august 4 or something... that would be most wonderful! Thanks so much for the mail and I love you!! i'm out of time..
Elder Young
Thanks so much for the package and all the food! my roomates appreciate it too! What is happening at home?! And how is being true empty nesters?? I love all thy mail but all you really talk about is me in them...
The mtc is greeeaaatt!! The temple reopened and we got to go to a session this morning. It was really hard to stay awake but it was still superrr great! We ate breakfast in the cafeteria there and it was super delicioso! Last thursday we got our travel plans for the dominican republic mtc. I leave august 5th at 3 am! Even though the mtc here is great I'm super excited to get out of here and go to the dominican republic. We hear rumors of weekly beach bbq's at the dr mtc. I get the feeling the rumors might not be true, but i'm still mega excited. I guess you get to go to some university by the mtc and walk around and contact and stuff with people who aren't actually missionaries! And I've heard it's all spanish there so I think the language will come a lot better there than here. I've learned lots of new vocab and been refreshed on some of the grammer, but I haven't really been taught anything grammer-wise that I hadn't already learned in HS spanish. So I'm excited to go to the DR for that reason toooooo! And I'm super duper excited to get to take a nap on the plane over there/ slash be in the real world! It's weird how secluded the mtc is. Everynight they call in over a intercom and tell us to go in our rooms and that it's quiet time. then 15 min later they tell everyone lights out. It makes me feel somewhat slightly like unto a prisoner. But a good kind of prisoner who is learning lots of useful new things.
In one of the halls here there's a picture of a missionary baptising someone in the ocean in the Dominican republic and it makes me soooo desireous to go over there!
We practice our lessons a lot but it's always just with volunteer members or or other missionaries. So I'm excited to teach a non member because I get the feeling teaching here is very realistic. Last week we taught a die hard catholic named Pablo and his brother Fernando who was hardcore atheist. We only made it 5 min in the lesson and then we made them play a different role since it hurt my brain cause I didn't know how to teach two people at once who were so different.
The devotionals are always way good. Last Sunday the speaker at the fireside showed a whole bunch of old LDS commercials and gave like short little thoughts with each one. Some of the commercials were super cheesey but it was fun to watch them! Yesterday the speaker was way good too! HE talked about all the different ways to invite the spirit. After each devotional our district always gets together and talks about highlights from the devotional and we talk about how we could apply those things to our district. Last night we ended up having a 60 min Oprah Winfrey session with a deeply enourmous 12 man heart-to-heart discussion. It was super good, and we all decided to start having a little less fun throughout the day. Sorry if these emails don't make sense, it's hard to type so fast and make coherent sentences and the computers keep freezing so we loose time.
Soccer is basicly the most exciting part of the day. It's the main thing I look forward to. I think it's helpful for the going to the dr to since it's 8009094585 degrees outside when we play. I saw braden come in last wednesday and I think there's a few friends from byu coming in tomorrow. last sat night I met with lots of friends from byu after all our planning and stuff and we took a ward picture! It's awesome seeing everyone all the time!
I'm thinking maybe you could wait to do a blog on my facebook untill I get out into the mission. Since even though everyday is super awesome here and I feel way happy, everyweek is about the same so I feel like I don't have many things to write. But could you put my dr mtc address in my facebook and write like mail here after august 4 or something... that would be most wonderful! Thanks so much for the mail and I love you!! i'm out of time..
Elder Young
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