Hey All,
Aaron here. I was on the road sitting in the Sarajevo airport on Thursday when I got Andrew's latest letter-- he sent it for everyone on the blog/facebook sites, so here it is! Time is flying-- He flies to Riga in exactly one month, July 22. We also FINALLY got his fist pictures (thanks to Kari and Matt for getting them uploaded to us) so we've put a couple up here as well!
ALSO he ran into a U.S. friend from Hungary, Nash Miller, who got his call to Russia Novosibirsk and arrived to the MTC this past Wednesday. Andrew actually had traffic duty that day directing cars as families dropped off reporting missionaries. He had the escort duties on that detail last week. Would have been fun if he'd met Nash on the way in, but instead ran into him later that evening-- all those central/eastern Europe / Russia missionaries are all bunking and studying in roughly the same areas.. SO we are still waiting for that photo-- two american guys from the same seminary class from Budapest both going to eastern europe at the MTC at the same time :-)
The first letters he sent via post are finally trickling in as well to our Hungarian home address.
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Aaron here. I was on the road sitting in the Sarajevo airport on Thursday when I got Andrew's latest letter-- he sent it for everyone on the blog/facebook sites, so here it is! Time is flying-- He flies to Riga in exactly one month, July 22. We also FINALLY got his fist pictures (thanks to Kari and Matt for getting them uploaded to us) so we've put a couple up here as well!
ALSO he ran into a U.S. friend from Hungary, Nash Miller, who got his call to Russia Novosibirsk and arrived to the MTC this past Wednesday. Andrew actually had traffic duty that day directing cars as families dropped off reporting missionaries. He had the escort duties on that detail last week. Would have been fun if he'd met Nash on the way in, but instead ran into him later that evening-- all those central/eastern Europe / Russia missionaries are all bunking and studying in roughly the same areas.. SO we are still waiting for that photo-- two american guys from the same seminary class from Budapest both going to eastern europe at the MTC at the same time :-)
The first letters he sent via post are finally trickling in as well to our Hungarian home address.
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Dear family and friends,
This week at the MTC was pretty good. The highlight was on Wednesday, when we got to direct traffic during hosting. I was assigned at the end of the car parking line, which means that I was the first one to park cars in their spots. We had a lot of fun at it, and those of us with walkie talkies also had tons of fun. They made up funny codenames and tried to talk like the military on the network. It was fun for them, until they realized that the cops were also hooked into the same frequency... that was also funny to see. Yesterday, we did another lesson with an investigator, and all we talked about was 1 Nephi 5-7. We basically set the stage for an lesson on chapter 8, Lehi's dream. We also had a devotional given by Elder Ballard on Tuesday. Elder Ballard raised a good point, that 90% of all baptized Latter Day Saints are still alive today. That kinda blows my mind.
I love my district and my zone. It feels like we are part of a family... and I guess that's because we practically spend 16 hours a day with each other. We also have 3 awesome teachers who have taught us and me so much Latvian. I've learned in 4 weeks, what it took me 5 months to learn in the Swiss Integration School.
Love you all and miss you all, can't wait to see you in 2 years
Elder Palmer
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