It's p-day, it's field trip day!
How is life? It sounds pretty
hectic for everyone, I hope you're feeling a little bit better! Go 30th
ward tonight! Thanks
for the dearelders, and thank the Ellsworth's for the chips/salsa and
Sister Kimball for the treats. Does she speak russian or did hunter
write out that note to me? I enjoyed it, especially because I could
actually understand it haha..
Life in the mtc is great. The beginning of this past week was kind
of boring but the past few days have been exciting. Oh and me and elder
Schneider got called to be zone leaders, if I figure out what that means
I'll let you know.. ha just kidding it just means we make sure everyone
in the zone is doing good and talk with all the district leaders then
report to the presidency.
Yesterday was exciting! Sometimes the church lets people come from
around the world to see the church things, temple/welfare square,
bishops storehouse, byu, mtc. So a big russian news station came
yesterday, and our district was recommended so they came to our class
and filmed us a little bit. They filmed us doing language practice, and
introducing ourselves, etc. And then they called out Schneider for an
interview and he ended up touring them around the whole mtc! he was gone
with them for 45 minutes. Apparently it was politically driven, because
of the mitt romney situation. They were trying to prove that the church
is preparing our generation to be world leaders--through missions. Ha
one of the questions they asked elder schneider was whether or not he
will run for president after his mission!
Maybe it wasn't that big of a deal but I thought it was cool. The
day before, a church public relations guy came in and told us some stuff
and one thing he said was that we may contact more people through this
one thing than the rest of our mission.. I don't know about that but
apparently it is a big tv station, I think it's called REN. They are
going to send us the link to the video so I'll forward it when I get it.
Speaking of politics how are the campaigns coming? I heard there was another debate a couple nights ago. Who won??
I
am so excited to go to Russia! Did I tell you already that I got a
letter from kevin? It was sweet to hear from him, he said Russia isn't
how he thought it was going to be but it is amazing.
What are your plans for thanksgiving? Turkey trot? I have been
preparing myself! I have a plan to run a turkey trot in russia on
thanksgiving. I started running the other day and I've been running 2
more laps every day. I started at a mile and 10 laps equals a mile. So I
have no idea how far I'll be running by the time I leave because I
don't feel like doing the math.
It snowed this morning while we walked to the temple! I think we might
even get some more tonight. It's not sticking down here but there is a
layer on the mtns. It's good to finally have some change.
Has
there been a change in the stake as far as girl's mission calls? I heard
some crazy statistic from the deseret news but I can't remember it,
something like a 471% increase in mission call applications since the
announcement. Sure is crazy. Here's a cool story--
Elder manning's friend got his mission call and it just had a phone
number in it. So he called the number and they asked him to come to salt
lake for an interview. In the interview they said he is going to be one
of the first missionaries going to mainland china and they just wanted
to tell him face-to-face! That is so cool huh?
Let me know how life is, Amy thanks for the carmels and starbursts!! Love you all and miss you a ton!
Scott
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