SO good to hear the family is moved out of Nebraska safely, there were probably a million ways that could have gone wrong...it's just nice to hear the worst thing that happened was that Sasha drooled a bit...;) Thanks for the mission ties letter! It was awesome!
So, you should know that from here on out, it's a good idea to send mail to the mission field address now, seeing as it can take a couple weeks to get here. AND speaking of MAIL I got my first non-direct family member letter this week, got it from Benjamin! He's doing pretty well, but he dissed on Brazilians. Well, he didn't really diss on them, so much as he said that they have problems in Orlando with getting banned from staying in their hotels from partying a wee bit too hard. Just a weeeee bit too hard.:)
So I finally got a hurcut last week, and now it's wayy short. What's way cool though, is the barber here. The man has a DEEP voice, honestly probably the deepest I've ever personally heard, and he SINGS to you as he cuts his hair (which actually explains some missed spots), and his voice literally MOVES my vocal chords as he sings, it's so intense! The experience is defintely awesome, he's a very nurturing, mother-like guy but...there's not a chance he can compare to your cuts ma;)
This last week after we sang the song Prayer of the Children, something awesome happened! Apparently President and Sister Degn loved the a capella so much that they let us record the song and hopefully get it sent home to our families!!! YEAHH! They totally let us break the rules! It's totally how I would picture it if God came down to earth and was like, "Hey, you remember all that business about not bearing false witness and lying and stuff? Yeah, it's cool, don't sweat it anymore. You know those people you really hate and stuff? Just don't sweat making up nasty rumors about them, it's all good! Just start churnin' out the lies!" Ah, not really, but it was still way funny, because Sister Degn made us promise not to tell anyone, so they didn't have to keep making exceptions for people. So let me know if you get the video!
A new batch of North American missionaries came in this last week, and the bunch of them are pretty cool. One Elder is from Alpine, and I just sent a letter to Benjamin (Elder Reneer the Elder) saying that he knows him, he goes by the name Elder Skousa. Says Benjamin is super-smart and way cool. No lie! Pretty cool to actually have a connection like that with one of the Elders! Also, there's this new elder, Elder Sheppard, and he's a brother from just outside of Orlando. He's pretty legit, and we had a bit of a beatboxing jam. But it STUNK. I was mad, because he started it, and he was like, "Alright, just lay down something simple." And I was like, "Alright, sure thing, probably just lay down the Fresh Prince of Bel Air beat, and have one of my district-mates do the rap, just something basic." And so I did, and it was alright. And then Elder Sheppard turned afterwards to another elder in the room and was like, "Hey man, you should lay down a beat, you know just something easy or something. Yeah, come on man, it's easy, you can do it!" And then he turned to me and was like, "He's about where you are with beatboxing, he's alright." Then in my mind I was like........uh-uh. Nuh-uh. No. Uh-uh. He don't know me. He don't know what I can do. Best believe this isn't over. Honestly though, the elder is WAY cool, but I was just thinking to myself... No.
Life is good, can't complain! I love things here, I love all the time I get to study, read scriptures, pray, meet tons of people, there's just nothing like it in the world. Love you guys! Tchau!
OH and um................yeah I think that's all.......Bye!
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