Week two

January 16, 2013

Hey everyone!

This week has been very great! Except, the fire alarm went off again on Tuesday night... at midnight... another pipe had burst. I hope they fix that problem soon. On another note when we were getting back into bed this week, after having spent an hour in the gym, Sisar Fronk said "Wow! We get to go to bed twice in one night! How awesome is that!" She's pretty optimistic

I got some sad news today. One of the Sisaret (sisters) in my district is being reassigned to the Spokane, Washington mission. She feels so overwhelmed by Finnish. And I'm so sad so see her go. She's really, really inspirational to be around and I'll miss her, but I guess that's life.

What else.... I've taught a few more lessons. Tomorrow morning we get to start teaching in English! Hooray! Although... I am kind of nervous. I'm so used to being like "I want to teach this... but I don't know the language sooo...I'll teach it next time". Now I'm afraid I'll go too deep or something while trying to explain a principle. I can't do that in Finnish because I don't know enough.

My companion got sick over the weekend so, that was no fun. But she's better now. It wasn't anything too terrible. Just an extremely sore throat and now she's back at 'er.

The last couple days have been really quiet at the MTC, tons of people left Monday and Tuesday... including some Hungarian sisters who were in the room right next to us. Sisar Gasser (oh, the a is pronounced like the 'a' in 'father'...she's sensitive about that ;) ) was really sad. Her parents had been mission presidents in Hungary when she was in high school and so she loves Hungary and can speak the language pretty well. The quietness ends today though. We got 850 new missionaries today. This is really the beginning of the influx of missionaries. By the end of August they're expecting to have 6000 missionaries at the MTC! And they say capacity is like 3000.... so we'll see how that works out.

I wish I could tell you guys more about all the people here... but I don't have time.

Sisar Kastendieck

*Note: Just a reminder to go to dearelder.com. You can write up an email which they will print off and send to her by noon the next day. It's FREE so you should take advantage of it while she's still in the MTC.