Well don’t send the white sweatshirt
I now have a cool Utah State jacket that will be fine. But it would be
cool to get the rugby jersey and CTR ring.
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| Elder and Sister Bake with Elder Romney and Elder Kim Exibit A. the cool Utah State jacket that will be fine |
Thank you for the lavalava it is soo
awesome and really comfortable! That guy we watched on YouTube about the
Marshall islands is one of our teachers he is really cool! haha. We also have
another teacher Brother McOmie that is also now on YouTube, (you should watch
those videos.) He is also a really good teacher and awesome guy. That is
awesome that BYU won. Hopefully I can hear soon about the big Texas game. That
will be the big test, but hopefully they can win. Can't wait to hear more about
the football team.
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| Lavalava I sent him, now we need a picture of him in it. |
It's definitely getting harder at the MTC. It's not
necessarily the language it is the sitting in a classroom for 4 hour block
periods 3 times a day that gets me. I don't function that way. The language is
hard but I think it's coming along. I did here some deep advice from Elder
Salanoa and Weenig (Those two are like me and Elder Kim's good friends in our
district that we hang around with.) There is another four people in our
district and Elder Lesser is also a person I really like and his companion is
cool also. Anyways the profound advice that Elder Salanoa and Elder Weenig got
from a couple of sisters is that you shouldn't worry about your language so
much and focus on the gospel and studying. Because you will learn the language
in the field just fine but it's vital you know the gospel really well and study
it so you can be able to live it better and teach it better.
I day dream about having a rugby ball sometimes just so I can hold one and toss
it around a bit in our room or something haha. For our exercise we can go to
the gym and play basketball, volleyball, or four square. Then we can go to the
field and play soccer or Frisbee or even croquet but there are no footballs or
rugby balls. Not even to just toss around. It sucks. But I try and play
basketball or volleyball most of the time so I can get really good at the
favorite sports on the Marshalls.
Everyone says that I look like Jonah Hill the actor from the funny movie 21
Jump Street or everyone thinks I'm Mitt Romney and it's funny. Weenig told me a
funny episode from New Girl about the main character trying to impress this
girl that's really conservative republican. And the girl comes up to him and
asks him if he is Tag Romney (one of Mitt's sons) and he says no I'm actually
Tug Romney. He then goes on this fake flashback of him and mitt fishing out on
the lake with two beers in hand. The girl says that Mormons don’t drink and
then he says "We don’t, we buy the beer to support American breweries and then
throw it in the lake!" It's just really funny. Elder Weenig also told me
to go up to random people and say: “I’m Elder Romney, Let's get America back to
work. So that's how I’ll introduce myself every once in awhile hahaha.
(Hmmm Jonah Hill or Mitt Romney.... I'll go with Mitt, he's family after all and much more likely to be seen at the MTC!)
It's funny in our zone because the international students love American
culture and the music and movies. A bunch of the islanders love it when I play
Disney music haha. They all sing a long and I feel like we have sung
"You'll be in my Heart" more than we have sung a hymn haha.
Here is a link to the song on youtube
It's a blast to have all the people in our zone that we have. Elder
Buhler is in our zone and I talk to him all the time he is a really cool and
funny guy. He's great! Pretty much our whole zone is really awesome even though
we are dubbed the loudest zone or our zone isn't always the best on obedience.
Our district and the Kiribati district are pretty good at following the rules
and stuff but it's the other districts going to Fiji and Samoa that don't
do a very good job but I love them all anyways. They are all so awesome and
make the MTC feel like home.
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| Elders in his District, one of a few pictures Elder Romney sent home today. I'll post some more throughout the week while we await the next letter. |
For the most part I love the MTC and I learn a lot,
I definitely feel the spirit a lot and it's awesome. Sometimes I'll hate it
because it feels like you are trapped in this uber Mormon utopia (for some people
it's a utopia). I say that because me and Elder Buhler were talking how self
sufficient the MTC is it's like a huge beehive that never stops working haha,
and everything is always nice and the people are great (it is filled of all
elders, sisters, or old missionaries, you can't get any safer or loving than
that! haha) But the campus is kinda small and so it feels like you are confined
in this little Mormon beehive and you can't leave haha. The Hotel California
song comes to mind with a motab twist remix. DJ Roombah in the house! But it’s
a great experience nonetheless. The good totally outweighs the bad. I love my
companion he is awesome and everybody else in our district and zone. It gets
only tougher from here but with my companion and the support of our awesome
district we can all get through the MTC. Even though I miss home and sports and
my music, I know it's a blessing in my life and it's going to be a great two
years.
(Pictures, links and a few paragraph and spelling edits by Dana)
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