November 23, 2011
FAMILY!
wow! so much has happened. firstly i apologize. normally we email on Mondays i promise even though you've only received one email from me on a Monday. our preparation day was changed for thanksgiving. :D secondly: can you send me easy potato recipes. i realized i don't really know how to cook potatoes, but we have a nice nice kitchen (oven, stove w/4! burners :D) and micro and such i just don't know what kinda such to get. slash when i go grocery shopping i can't read any of the labels! hahaha but don't worry. that certainly hasnt' kept me from eating. the food here is pretty dang good. i had my first fried cheese. and needless to say i was not disappointed :) tee hee. but on to the work!
thirdly it's thanksgiving. and since i'm all the way over in the Czech Republic i decided you have to send me all what you say at the table you are thankful for and i'll send what i would say haha (this homework is due by Monday so i can read it) I am thankful for... wow. so many things. family is probably the top. followed closely by the gospel. followed somewhat less closely by the MTC's Czech program (otherwise i'd go nuts out here not being able to speak to anybody! haha) family! i'm thankful that i was surrounded by loving people and such great examples. The gospel for me is so family oriented, so i would say it's been a blessing to be teaching some of the people i'm teaching because i get to recognize moreso the other parts of the gospel. so at the table i would probably say family. slash emailing. cause i love all your emails. they are HILARIOUS. and informative. like.. like.. that awesome baked French toast. the perfect blend of tons of stuff that you just get super happy while eating haha.
nextly there is not enough time to say everything so probably it will leak to next weeks (only in 4 days i think haha) but just know the work is, right now, best compared to a roller coaster. except a really exciting one becuase i haven't had any lows hahahaha ex: i got confused for somebody from the Czech Republic after saying some sentence to a Czech person (that made my week) but then trakting later that day i said hi and a few other things, and the guy at the door said nothing in Czech, rather immediately called his daughter who spoke English.... so it's two sides. yesterday, i set up my first appointment with somebody on the street completely in czech with no help from my companion. it was amazing. kinda crazy actually. i don't know how to describe it. then later last night i started talking to someone else and just blacked completely. it was kinda bad/embarrassing? but we had a great laugh about it later haha. Czech is starting to sound natural to me (i hear English and it's like whoa! then i hear Czech on the tram and it sounds normal i guess? i dunno how much sense that makes)
I HAD MY FIRST DREAM IN CZECh. that was prolly too much hype. but it was kinda a big deal for me cause i hear that's kinda a big step when learning a language? no? it was kinda silly though i was at some sporting event back home and i hear people saying děkují and prosím and i was like hey! that's Czech! why do you speak Czech?! nobody here
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sorry i sent that last one becuase some flashing thing came up and told me i had a few seconds left but i guess it was a false alarm. but yeah. it was a cool dream haha then i woke up and realized i had much much Czech still to learn haha. in other news the best golf course in the Czech Republic is 30 min away. how do i know this? may have to wait for next week cause i have no time now haha. but i will write much more in a few days, til then, dobrou chut!
elder stimpson
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