Videt, Vedet

Hello Family!

This week flew by. I think most of them are going to, but this one went by especially fast. It's amazing how long the days seem getting up at 6:30 (still waiting for my body to get used to that :)) but how fast the weeks fly by! had a new bunch of elders come in this week! one of whom is from Lethbridge! so look for some Cook's with a 22 or so yr old mish out here! i think he's going to North Carolina or something.

The devotionals this week were great...learned about paying tithing and obedience. It's amazing how many times tithing pops up in the old and new testaments. it's great. and obedience is like a well-located fastball. You know it's coming but it get's ya every time (and by get's ya i mean i learn something new every time : ) )! In the form of language this past week my companion and I taught a native Czech in the TRC (where we basically teach RM's [since nobody speaks Czech :)] ) It was amazing! incredibly fast speaker but somehow we still understood and were able to get the spirit and teach he and his bud a few things about the BOM! He's playing hockey at BYU so i had to tell him that i love hockey, began playing on my move to MT, it was just a huge blast and now i want to have a Czech pday so i can play hockey with them :) Other cool things as far as the language goes. I don't know if I've told you before but i had another experience confusing "to know" and "to see" in Czech this past week. vídět and vědět. they are so stinkin close and i thought our investigator was wondering why she couldn't see the holy ghost but was rather wondering how she could know she was feeling the holy ghost. good fun! haha but that paled in comparison (well kinda... teehee) to an unnamed person in the district who, in a prayer one day, asked God to bless us to overcome life's many cookies. rather than life's many challenges :) another elder in the district and i love the word for cookie so we often promise them as blessings when we are practicing conversing in Czech druing class. "if you pray everyday i will bless you with cookies" (we took a little liberties with the subject of a few sentences and i think we made some real good material haha)

Good to hear about ASU and Brock. i sat back in class on Saturday and thought to myself, whoa! my fam is in slc... then i realized i was getting of task and had to get back to reading more Czech haha. I have been seeing a ton of people around which is just a blast becuase we're all learning different languages! a bunch of guys from the hall are here so it's great catchin up with them, and Matt Anderson, whom ya'll know, got here a week or two ago so it's been great seein him around too! only wish i had gym with him so we could play soccer and bball together haha. I'll be sending some pictures home soon. i'm just figuring out the details of getting them and such. And sorry today's email is kinda short but they keyboard was set to Spanish keys again and this time i actually know how to change it so i did. then realized i didn't, so i tried. then my comp helped me so i got it hahah. anywho's teaching went pretty dang well this week. as of Monday morning i am now the senior companion... i don't really know what that means in the MTC cause we split the work and decision making pretty dang well haha. This past lesson while my comp was talking i felt like i should say something in particular about what he was saying. And two seconds later he said exactly what was on my mind. it was awesome. really fun to see how we're progressing. OOOOH one pretty funny thing.

so when we study language it's on this program called TALL: tech. assisted lang. learning? i think? but we record ourselves and can then play it back and critique ourselves! so elder gleue and i (pronounced gloi-yay) were recording ourselves and then i yawned.... so i recorded the yawn by accident. but since theyre contagious he yawned, and recorded that by accident too. and after listening to them over and over we probably made ourselves yawn close to 25 times. no joke. it was awesome. our teacher even came over wonder what the commotion was, and as a result, she yawned too! hahahaha


times up but i love ya'll and can't wait to hear how everything is!

Elder STimpson