Dearest Family!
It is most excellent to hear from you this fine afternoon! I love reading emails! I do believe that my departure date is Jan 22!!! Two weeks from today! I am so excited to get out there and do some work! I don't know if you could tell from my last email, but I am running out of things to say. Basically I have done some studying and a little more of that and I sleep a little bit every now and again too! I really do enjoy it here though, I've made lots of great friends and I've learned so much! It is great to hear that you all had fun over the holidays! I wish you all luck getting back into the swing of things. I think that winter is going to come really quickly and then the crazy thing is i will only have one more summer here. Its insane to think about. We had mission conference on Sunday and it was amazing! It was very spiritually uplifting! We also have cycled through another pair of Brazilian roommates one more pair left to go. I will miss these guys, they just left this morning. I can't even imagine weather under 70 degrees right now, much less single digits!! Typically the coolest that we can get our classroom here is 75 degrees and it feels so good! The language is really coming along! During mission conference, I could understand almost all of what the speaker was saying! But I'm pretty sure that the accent is very different and they say different words down in Santa Maria.
I'm glad to hear that the jazz and cougs are winning! Their aren't a lot of jazz fans down here, so whenever we talk basketball I always end up having to defend them and that's not always easy to do! I also appreciate the movie quotes! It's great to hear about everyone receiving their mission calls! That's so exciting! I'm pretty sure that Tyler goes into the field this week and Hunter to the MTC, with Xander following next week! Those lucky ducks are on the 6 week schedule now! There are so few Americans here now! We are still the youngest district and we are on week 7! We have gotten only about 30 from Provo and 2 from home since I got here! I think that we are supposed to get 5 or so tomorrow and they may be joining in with our district, if this is the case I'm bummed because I will have to give up the best seat in our classroom to make room for them. We got to go to the temple again today! It was awesome! I can't believe that I will only be able to go one more time. And I don't think that I will go at all in the field. I'm not exactly sure, but from what I hear, I will fly to Porto Allegre and then take a bus to Santa Maria. That might be a long day! I don't know if you could tell, but I was really tired when I wrote my last email. I just read it again and it's kinda all over the place!
I'm glad to hear that the jazz and cougs are winning! Their aren't a lot of jazz fans down here, so whenever we talk basketball I always end up having to defend them and that's not always easy to do! I also appreciate the movie quotes! It's great to hear about everyone receiving their mission calls! That's so exciting! I'm pretty sure that Tyler goes into the field this week and Hunter to the MTC, with Xander following next week! Those lucky ducks are on the 6 week schedule now! There are so few Americans here now! We are still the youngest district and we are on week 7! We have gotten only about 30 from Provo and 2 from home since I got here! I think that we are supposed to get 5 or so tomorrow and they may be joining in with our district, if this is the case I'm bummed because I will have to give up the best seat in our classroom to make room for them. We got to go to the temple again today! It was awesome! I can't believe that I will only be able to go one more time. And I don't think that I will go at all in the field. I'm not exactly sure, but from what I hear, I will fly to Porto Allegre and then take a bus to Santa Maria. That might be a long day! I don't know if you could tell, but I was really tired when I wrote my last email. I just read it again and it's kinda all over the place!
I always love hearing about what's going on up there! You guys are the best and I wish you all luck with work, school, Pocatello (hehe) and life in general! I love you guys tons and tons! You are the greatest family in the entire world!
Love,
Elder Stringer
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