MTC Week 7

November 24, 2011

HOLA!!!

So today has been INSANE! Thanksgiving at the MTC is just such a treat. Ha Ha. My day started out by waking up at 5:45 to do my laundry! 5:45 on a holiday! Nuts! Then we have just been running around. Elder Nelson came and did a devotional this morning, then we had "Thanksgiving Dinner" and after I email you, we will be off to service projects and more devotionals. Tonight we have a special program for two hours and we are all praying for a movie. Sad, but true.

So we had the funniest experience this week. It probably won't be as funny because I can't use my hands to describe it, and you don't know these people. So once a district leaves, their teachers become floaters for about 2 weeks until they get another district. One of the floaters is Hermano Movick and he is literally the funniest person I have ever met. He doesn't say funny things, he is just naturally so funny that I can never take him seriously. Anyways, he wanted us to come teach him because it wasn't our day to teach our other progressing investigators, so we said alright, we'll come teach you. We walk into the room and he was like "Oh, would you like some water?" Of course Hermana Oomrigar says yes so he goes to the window and fills up three fake cups of water and then tries to balance them as he carries them over to us. Hermana Oomrigar just held onto hers throughout the whole lesson and kept drinking out of it. Remember, this is fake water. Eventually Hermana Holmes and I had to tell her to stop because it was TOO funny, so she put her cup on the table which made us laugh even harder; all during our lesson. Then at the end, Hermano Movick asked if he could take our cups so Hermana Holmes and I hand him our imaginary cups and Hermana Oomrigar didn't know what to do so she said Oh, I will take mine. O my cow! It is HYSTERICAL! We literally still laugh about it. As I sit here and type this, Hermana Holmes started to laugh and I said Oh, you writing the water story and she said yup. It really was so stinking funny.

So our favorite district is leaving on Monday. Sad day. But it will be okay because we will leave just a few short weeks after that! I am getting so excited! By this time next week, I will have my travel plans! We don't know if we leave on the 12th or the 14th. I guess we will see!

Oh, but guess what! Elder Drollinger (Gallagher's cousin) didn't get his visa in time, so instead of leaving the MTC with his district on Monday, he is just joining our district! I wish I felt more sad for him, but I am just excited for him to be in our district. Yes, I did inform him that I wasn't sad about it and he laughed. He is such a funny kid. We were chatting last night and for some reason, he can't say "pep talk." We coached him for a good 5 minutes before he could actually get it. SO FUNNY! AND I was walking past his class one day and he said hey Hermana (pronounced air-man-a, no se porque) my parents said they got a picture of me from my aunt and uncle who got it from your parents. It still cracks me up how small the world is!

Yes I did get your Thanksgiving package! It was much appreciated by the whole district including the teachers. And I love getting pictures! I haven't gotten homesick yet, so don't worry about that. :) BUT if you wanted to tone down the bike safety letters, I would let you. :) At letter time, the Elders always ask me what my parents said about my bike today. It is funny. But they like the bubble wrap idea.

I am trying to remember if there is something else that I needed to respond to you about, but I don't remember. Usually if you ask me things in Dear Elders, I will forget it, but if it is in an email, I will see it right before I email you back. Interesante!

O I just remembered another funny story. We love our district leader, Elder Peterson, because he is literally like our dad. He eats off our plates and everything. Two days ago we pointed out to him that every time he finishes a meal, he leans back and says, "Well.....yup...." just like an old man. We CRACK UP! It is the funniest thing!

I am going to send all my pictures to you on a CD right before I leave as a back up and so you can see more of them. There are some pretty funny ones of our fort and goofy temple trip pictures.

Well, I need to get going. We have to drop Hermana Oomrigar off at a meeting of some sort, but I love you all and I hope you eat extra food for me!

Hermana Kate