Another week and I'm still alive

Hello family!

Well, I only have 29 minutes now so I haven't read your many emails. I'll pri nt them out after this and read them and hopefully respond via real mail...cuz everyone loves real mail! Cept that would cause mom to go to the mailbox and see all the crap in there. bummer.

So let's see, this week was somewhat less eventful than last week, oweing to the lack of a fire. =P

The food here is still good and I am not sick of ambrosia salad yet. The only thing is that the spaghetti is gross, but that's it.

Let's see. I haven't gotten much mail still, the elders get more mail than me. WHAT THE CRAP!?!?! Explain this to me please?

I got a letter from Eric yesterday though. That was pretty happy. I only got letter number 2 though and he says he sent number 1 at the same time. Weird. Maybe I'll get it today.

So that's enough about mail I don't get. Oh wait. I got your letter mom! The picture of the slug made me laugh. I'm sorry you have crap to write on at home. I took all my cute stuff. Not that I've used it...I still need Aunt Shareen's address so that I can thank her for that binder. It's amazing! And all my roomates are jealous of it.

I also got the package and the elders and my roommates all love me now. I gave all the koala cookies to the elders...but I ran out and Allen choro didn't get any. v.v

Thanks for the tape recorder and the scrubby thing. I'll use it as soon as I find time to take a shower....you have no idea how hard that is. I'm living on the idea of body spray and deoderant...and then if my hair starts to look gross then I take a shower. Otherwise I just don't have the time.

Let's see, So the events of this past week. We had our first TRC visit. That's when we get to teach the lesson to an "investigator"....who is usually a BYU student who's volunteering. That went....badly. I totally froze after "our heavenly father loves us" (and if you look at chapter 3 in PMG that's the FIRST section) and Webb Shimai talked for the whole lesson. Blah. We totally had that lesson down too!

We have TRC again this week...hopefully it will go better.

The japanese went well....we had to introduce ourselves and our purpose to someone in a park. It wasn't too hard but my companion froze on that part.... do we need to work on some things? I say yes.

So after the TRC I was pretty upset but I got over it quickly. It's only my first week...er second. or whatever.

Last P-day we went to the temple. YAY TEMPLE! The provo temple is a lot prettier inside than out. =P

We had a devotional on the life of President Hinckley that night too...It was amazing. Then we all sang "we thank thee o God for a prophet" It was really really powerful. I couldn't sing cuz I was crying.

Let's see whatelse...I should have really organized my thoughts before I wrote this cuz that timer in the corner is making me tense and scattering my thoughts.

I'm sending an SD card home today so you can see pictures and movies of my crazy district. I love them all. Smith Choro is hilarious and brightens my day. He always goes out of his way to say hi to us shimai...which is cool cuz its hard for us to assimilate into the group. All the guys room together and the girls well...we don't. So we often get left behind. I'm always yelling at them "HEY! DISTRICT MEANS FAMILY AND FAMILY MEANS NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND....SO GET BACK HERE!!!"

On sunday we had someone from the primary general presidency come speak to us. It was a really fun relief society cuz we sang primary songs the whole time. The lesson was about children and how we can teach the gospel through them. It made me really miss the primary but I already told the Primary that I think...assuming Bishop read my postcard to them.

I love singing hymns and children's songs. It's so much fun to be in the gym with all the missionaries singing as loud as I can.

So, did you all get to hear the letter I send Bishop? I hope you all enjoyed it. (the letters I've yet to read are probably talking about that so I'll not talk about it further here)

So Aubrey has a calling in primary. You are soooooooooo lucky Aubrey. You are going to LOVE it. The kids are such a blessing to the ward you guys don't even know. (trust me...it's been 3 weeks since I've seen a small child)

But seriously...When we're told we should become as little children just look at the primary kids and you'll know exactly why. There is no faith like the faith of a child.

Which faith I seem to be lacking. Heh...*looks away* Hey look! A bird!

Yeah...so we went to the RC last night and we're on chats which isn't so bad...cept Ward choro got some crazy nut who was trying to tell him that God's body is imperfect because his legs bend the same way as ours and physics proves that's not the most efficient way to bend...I dunno. Our chat...people...were pretty easy. We had a Catholic who felt kinda empty in his religion and so was asking how we knew ours was true. Webb shimai and I were like "YAY! We can answer this question!"

But we're also on inbound calls...and the minute my phone rang I FREAKED. Like I didn't even answer it...I just started crying and my face was completely white and I was breathing really hard. Webb Shimai didn't know what to do cuz she was on a call too and here I was like...dying. So I tried to get the teacher's attention but I missed the call. He was really nice about it and took me off calls entirely...but my whole district saw. =/

They haven't said anything yet...and I actually started joking about it back in the classroom so people didn't worry too much. But yeah...basically it was pretty bad. I said a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long prayer last night lemme tell ya..

Ok well times up and I have to print out my emails so I can respond to you so I love you all and say hi to Yoo jin and didi for me! I miss them!!! Give them a hug for me!!!

Love,
Halliday Shimai