MTC Week 8
Happy Halloween! Thanks for the dearelders and emails.. I sent you a package on monday so hopefully it will get there tomorrow or friday. I just sent some stuff that I thought you'd like. There's an awesome poem about russian missionaries I tried to send but I couldn't get it in time. I'll send it to you before I leave the mtc though. That is so fun that Taralynn Kory and Bowen are coming! What is Bowen's first Halloween costume going to be? Take some pictures for me.
So this week has been anti-climatic. The most exciting
thing that happened was I got another letter from kevin boyer! That was
awesome, and I wrote him back yesterday in Russian--I'll give it to the
missionary going to Samara when we leave.
Also speaking of when we leave... Guess what? of course
our visas got delayed!! We were supposed to get our travel plans
tomorrow and leave on the 12th but they just came out with a new visa
for 'preachers' so that is why it is delayed. So now I'm leaving..
drumroll... november 22nd! Ahhhh! Everyone who is not going to moscow is
delayed. (but not people going to ukraine). So I have no Idea what we
will do for the extra week and 1/2, because we won't have any teachers.?
They will have to be with the new younger districts.. It will also be
weird here without elder Bingham, Roggow and Manning who are going to
Ukraine.. I feel most bad for elder Schneider though because he was most
excited to leave and he got delayed the most out of all the missions,
he doesn't leave until the 26th!
Just another day in the life of my MTC experience haha
Other
than that of course my week was great. A couple weeks ago a general
authority spoke at our fireside and said that he reads the Book of
Mormon, 10 pages a day, every day. I thought that sounded like a good
little system so that's what I have been doing. I think it is an
awesome way to read! I like it more than going by chapter
because sometimes chapters are super short and others are long.
Also this is a random thought but I think the MTC is
ruining my taste buds! I remember the first day I was here I got a glass
of the caffeine free coca cola they have here and almost spit it out
because it tasted so watered down. And now I have to admit I enjoy it!
ahh.. The first thing I'm doing in the slc airport is buying a real one
haha! It is always nice to eat a 'real' meal at the temple on p-days.
Sorry I don't know any more of the story about Elder
Manning's friend who was called to mainland China. I told you everything
he was told in the letter. Elder Manning is going to Kiev, UK and he is
companions with the missionary from Germany, elder Roggow. Who, the
other day, casually threw out that his dad drives a Ferrari! sheesh I
thought we were closer, it took 10 weeks for him to tell me that haha
Have an awesome Halloween tonight. That is fun that
they are doing the party in the yard again, I was thinking last night
that one memory I have is skateboarding with Taylor and others during
the Halloween party at our house. And I concluded in my mind that that
was 2 years ago! Holy cow does time go by fast nowadays. Those used to
be the good old days and now these are my good old days.
Tell Hunter that
I'm sorry I haven't written him, I need to do that! But if he wants to
get anything sent to Erica he can send it to me and I can give it to
the missionaries I know who are going to her mission. Also did Nathan
Christiansen take Jake out to lunch yet? Hopefully he has.. Do I
remember right that he has a girlfriend over there now? Atta boy!
Tell Jessica Congratulations and she should send me an invitation!
That is so cool that she is getting married in a couple weeks.
Again
thanks for everything, I love you all have a fun Halloween! They're
putting up the Christmas lights here, so you must be slacking ha just
kidding. The only think I can think of that I might need before Russia
is more contacts. Bye!
-Elder Allen
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