July 2011
Hey family, I am doing great, the MTC is freaking hard. After I'm
done writing this I have to go right a 3 minute talk es espanol. The MTC
is alright though, I'm in the minority here since I am in a
tri-companionship since one elder didn't show up. My companions names
are Elder Cram and Elder Reber. The food isn't to bad, its all you can
eat too. I've seen a few guys I know here. As for the Spanish, I think
were in something called the pilot program, I'm not entirely sure what
that means. (Darren was in it for Portuguese) I think part of it is that
our instructor says almost everything in espanol, so sometimes its hard
to understand what he's saying. For being in here for 3 days I already
know a little Spanish, but conjugating verbs will be the death of me. When I talk to people they can't always understand if I'm talking in the
past or present or future. Also i need 3-4 more short sleeve shirts ASAP
cause its so dang hot in long sleeves. I only have 4 short sleeves and
since companions always have to match when it comes to shirts they are
not gonna be happy if they have to wear long sleeves. Also send me my
regular shoes. Tell everybody hi for me and that I love them. Yo se que
dios es nuestros padre celestial, y el evengelio es verdado, y Jose Smith resorado la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos
dias, en el nombre de jesucristo, amen.
Love
Elder Allison
Dear family, and whoever else reads this
I'm doing ok, the MTC is pretty hard though. So when i first got
here i was part of a tri-compainionship since one elder didn't show up. But they put me back in a regular companionship the other day so my only
companion is Elder Cram. He's from Nashville Tennessee and went to BYU
last year. Elder Reber who was also my companion until a couple days ago
is from Saint George Utah. He played division 1 baseball over at the University of Kentucky last year. He is now pared up with Elder Weaver. Elder Weaver was born and partially raised in Australia, he moved to Utah when he was like 10 or something. He and Elder Reber are our roommates. If I get them developed today I'm gonna send some pictures
home, otherwise I'm just gonna send the SD card home, but don't erase the
pictures on it, just copy them off and send it back to me. Except copy
the video off and then delete it of the SD card. It's the video of me
opening my mission call.
We pretty much have 6 hours of class with a
teacher everyday, and the other times we spend using computer asisted
learning programs forSpanish or personal study time. The one thing that I find anoying is that there is no rest on Sunday, if you have any free
time they have you sit in our class room and study. There is almost
never anytime to catch up on rest here.
I've seen Miles Wheeler and Mitchel Boberg so far, they are both in the same building as me for
class. A buddy of mine from the singles ward is gonna be here next week.
My regular p-day is Thursday, they just let us do it on Saturday last
week since it was our first week. If you can in the future send all
your emails or letters on dear elder before Thursday that way I have a
hard copy and don't have to spend my email time reading them since we
only get 30 minutes a week and a clock is ticking.
The spanish is coming ok, still kinda hard though.
I love you all
Elder Allison
Hey,
The MTC is going well, Spanish is
coming along mas o menos. My companion is pretty helpful. Today is p-day
so we went to the temple this morning. We decided to try the cafeteria in
the temple and the food there is outstanding compared to the MTC cafeteria.
Being in the class room for 8-9 hours a day gets a little hard. there isn't
much to say about since every week its the same routine until we leave, it gets
a little boring. On Sunday nights they have an MTC fireside and on Tuesday
night they have a MTC devotional. this last Tuesday they had Gerald N Lund who
was a former member of the Seventy speak, I think he was the one who wrote The
Work and the Glory books.Let me know how your trip was to Utah. On Saturday
afternoon I was in class, again. I'm so jealous that dad gets to go to BC this
year.
I talked to one of the teachers for
the other districts who went to Santiago East, and he said it was amazing. We
have also been told by several people that the northeast side of Santiago which
is in our mission is the wealthiest area in all of South America, so its pretty
much the richest area south of the U.S. border since Central America isn't that
wealthy. Also our mission is supposedly the smallest proselyting mission in the
church. I don't know if that's true but its definitely got to be in the top 3
smallest.
Also I sent a couple letters home, I don't know if they got there yet, I said in one of them how I ran into a cousin
of Grandpa Grants and Aunt Connie.
Anyways I love you all and miss you.
Love
Elder Allison
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