this week was awesome. just to prepare you ahead of time. i
can't include it all so i'll certainly be recording the tape today haha
firstly!
mongolian food is delicious-it was a
huge mongolian holiday this past week so wish all of our mongolian friends
happy saran saar, or
"white moon" elder odell
and i are trying to learn mongolian (cause almost half the people we meet with
are mongolian :) and up to this point i know about 10 words and can say i eat
meat, cake, or little wanton guys in present, past, and future tenses :)
impressive? haha just playing. i'm studying humility this week so no worries
there- i just have to take advantage of the gift of tongues while i'm blessed
and set apart with it right? hahahahaa but in all reality, look up a google
video from the travel channel about mongolian food, our branch presidnet was
playing it with the family while we were over, i'll have to watch it some other
time (in a long time), but i guess it has all the food that we ate-nuts
stuff, but all super super good!
next: zone leader exchanges took
place, so i was in pardubice for a day, it was a blast. got to spend some time
with the zone leaders (always a pleasure) and learn tons and tons from them. as
far as highlights, got to meet some members there, teach some lessons, and try
some enchiladas- with, get this dad, refried beans from mexico! what a find!
haha i will say that refried beans have never tasted so good. mexican food...
well in that case distance had increased my appetite for it haha
but next wild stuff: our skype lesson
with one mongolian family went very very well! super nuts part, we start
skyping with the MTC teacher, and are a little taken back. he isn't at home, in
an office, a computer lab, or any other location that one would expect someone
to translate a lesson taught by missionaries.... he was on a weekend vacation,
and was translating through skype on his phone, from TIMES SQUARE. add that to
my bucket list. it was the coolest thing ever. he's translating our teaching
and the investigators responses and in the background are gargantuan
skyscrapers and all kinds of random people. he did a great job. it was a blast.
he is the man. he's going to send us some mongolian stuff, and i want his
address, so i can send him some chocolate as a present, he's great haha
sports night this past week was
awesome. we have way too much fun with the members. this week i did a little
more tipping than spiking (work smarter not harder, right?) and in games of 3
on 3 tipping can be deadly! hahahahahahaha we may have too much fun with them
haha but it's great, and i think the members enjoy having us as well.
volleyball players in the fam- any tips or otherwild stuff i should try out?!?
:D the gym is a little small for jump serving (i'm still sitting on the fence
about trying it though ahah)
president irwin got the valentines
card! and called to thank for it! so thanks! and president says thanks as
well! he's great. i really can't say enough about him and what he does. i'm
also sure that means that my valentines card is waiting for me in prague, so no
worries.
in other news i gave a talk yesterday
at church, about missionary work. i used lehi's dream and some quotes from PMG
for the meat of the talk. it was pretty nuts, because we found out on saturday
that the talks wouldn't be as president hanzal had planned, so we began to put
some stuff together (only one of us) and then by sunday morning it came out
that the other talks also either couldn't come or whatever. so my little 5-10
minuter got stretched (mixed emotions about stretching talks- i always plan way
way way too much, so that was a blessing in disguise, but i always worry about
boring the audience.) into a good 20 minutes. i couldn't really understand the
branch president when he announced what was going on, that i would give my talk
and whateve time was left would be for testimonies... it was nuts. but a
complete blast. i'd send you a copy of it... but it's about 20 words long
between the title, main idea, and the 3 bullet points i had.... like i said,
nuts. way fun though
this week looks awesome!
love ya tons!!!1
time's up :) argh :)
elderstimpson
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