Jesi-Wow you write so much it is hard to respond. I have been getting a good amount of mail. Everyone is jealous. I get some duplicates from dear elder though. The snow was not fun but that's okay. It seems like the MTC won't open the field until after conference no matter what anyway. My companion is from Holladay by Salt Lake. His name is Elder Price and we are still getting along just fine. The elders sleep on preparation day and on Monday because that is the day we have service but the day of our service is actually wednesday to set up chairs. It doesn't take too long and we do it Wednesday so we were told we could use Monday service time as free time and do our service wednesday. The first investigator was good. We were supposed to teach and commit him to baptism but then we got new investigators so no one got to teach the lessons they prepared. The fundamentals are good and so is Preach My Gospel is too. There are lots of insights, i don't have time to list.. I pray every day and just about the language and small things throughout the day and my prayers are answered. I have general lesson plans, the english part is easy and the language is starting to come more and more.
Hyrum-How is school going? what else have you been up to?
Lyndsie-Thanks for the letter. My companion is from Holladay and thanks for the quote.
Everyone-I got my haircut last preparation day and it was interesting. When they are done, they put a pretty good powered vacuum to your head to get a lot of the hair. I read about some of the culture in one of our Russian study books and it was okay but so far i don't like it. Hopefully i can learn to adapt to it when i get there and love our differences even if i don't actually like it. My companion and I have been getting alont really well and things have been going by faster. I am going to try and send some pictures of things we have done. Apparently i am still super funny. I try to come up with something every day to do. We have these things in our room called narnia holes which are empty hidden spaces (between dressers but inside the dresser for example) and you can put stuff in them. I got in one during one night and scared an elder who came in by moving the drawers in the dresser out from the inside. Yesterday i would pretend to know elders and they would say how long it's been since we've seen each other and pretended to know me. At the end, the Elder and i would have a good laugh but sometimes they wouldn't realize that i didn't really know them. Our teaching is going very well and we teach simple but powerful. A lot of the time i don't understand what the investigator says but we are able to communicate more effectively. Our last lesson went really well and I gave him a book of mormon (the investigators are our teachers). Right now we have two investigators-Olieg and Nikita. Sundays are very relaxing and spiritual days because it is the day of rest. We have the temple walk too which is refreshing to have some good air. We watched the testaments on sunday and it is fun to watch. I recommend it as a movie for HYRUM to watch on Sunday. I don't really have a lot more to say. Yesterday in the classroom next to us two elders were arguing and it was loud for our classroom to hear. I kept saying we should go tell them something but the sisters didn't want me too so we talked loud enough that we eventually couldn't hear them and to let them make notice we were there. Things are going great. I will try and send pictures now. -Elder Elwood
