MTC life is still great, although I'm getting to be about ready to get out of here. The food is getting a little old though, and I'm ready to start teaching for reals. As far as Portuguese goes, I'm loving it. We went a whole day without speaking english this week, and by the end i was starting to almost think in portuguese, which was sort of surreal. I've started throwing small portuguese words into my thoughts generally. Teaching in portuguese is lots of fun, it gets a little frustrating when i know what i want to say but can't say it in Portuguese, but generally It just makes me teach better and ask more questions.
We are now officially the senior district (the elder elders, if you will) and It's starting to sink in that i'm going to be in portugal three weeks from now. Next week we get travel plans. It's going to be a awesome trip, we have 12 missionaries, ten elders and two irmas, all going out to lisbon on the same day. We ought to just convert the whole plane on the way over. I'm really excited to go out into the world. The MTC makes the idea of international travel seem even more sweet, since i haven't been more than half a mile away from where I am right now in the last 6 weeks.
What else has been going on. I'm sick. It was bound to happen eventually, but yeah, I all but lost my voice this week, which was a little prohibitive when i came to teaching and stuff, but i found out that barely being able to talk just makes your testimony that much more powerful. It also helped to keep me from talking too much in lessons. Hm...three more minutes, que mais?
It snowed here this week. It's been unusually warm (80's) up till now, and the snow melted pretty quick, but it's finally feels more wintery. I'm pretty excited about winter. Winter makes it possible to be warm. I'm curious to know if it snows at all in portugal. I've heard it mostly rains, and I'm not a huge fan of rain, but that's ok, it's portugal, so i'll live.
So that's the news from Provo. I only have two more emails and then I'm off to preach and teach and work as missionaries do. Hope everything's great back in Mississippi and all over. Happy first week of novermber. Tchau.
Moito Amor,
Ammon
We are now officially the senior district (the elder elders, if you will) and It's starting to sink in that i'm going to be in portugal three weeks from now. Next week we get travel plans. It's going to be a awesome trip, we have 12 missionaries, ten elders and two irmas, all going out to lisbon on the same day. We ought to just convert the whole plane on the way over. I'm really excited to go out into the world. The MTC makes the idea of international travel seem even more sweet, since i haven't been more than half a mile away from where I am right now in the last 6 weeks.
What else has been going on. I'm sick. It was bound to happen eventually, but yeah, I all but lost my voice this week, which was a little prohibitive when i came to teaching and stuff, but i found out that barely being able to talk just makes your testimony that much more powerful. It also helped to keep me from talking too much in lessons. Hm...three more minutes, que mais?
It snowed here this week. It's been unusually warm (80's) up till now, and the snow melted pretty quick, but it's finally feels more wintery. I'm pretty excited about winter. Winter makes it possible to be warm. I'm curious to know if it snows at all in portugal. I've heard it mostly rains, and I'm not a huge fan of rain, but that's ok, it's portugal, so i'll live.
So that's the news from Provo. I only have two more emails and then I'm off to preach and teach and work as missionaries do. Hope everything's great back in Mississippi and all over. Happy first week of novermber. Tchau.
Moito Amor,
Ammon
