Hello Friends and Familia!!!
It has been a great first couple of days here in the CCM
(MTC)!! When I first arrived I was whisked through numerous check points and
then I was told I would be staying in West Campus which is the Raintree and
Wyview Apartments. I love it here, but it has been tough. The
thought of two years is really starting to hit me pretty hard. I only get
to read emails once a week, but I love getting your hand written letters and
dear elder letters because those come daily. It is kind of a status thing
here, we have a saying that "you live and die by mail." So as
you can tell it is muy importante!! Mi Espanol is coming along swimmingly!
I have learned more in 3 days here than I did in 3 years of high school Spanish!!
With the help of great inspired teachers and the spirit I know I can conquer
this language. We have and Elder here named Elder Cheney. He. Is.
A. Whack. Job. The older elders told us that he was home schooled his
entire life so being away from family has been very hard on him!! He
never talks, and he always has a pen in him mouth. He even eats, and
drinks with the pen in his mouth!! It's pretty creepy actually!! He always
bring me little gifts at meals like a bowl of chocolate milk, and empty bag of
chips with a rice crispy inside, or and apple that he put on my tray and the
stabbed with a fork. It was getting weird. He then made a Voodoo
doll of mi Cumpanero Elder Duke and wrote "Matar" on the side which
in Spanish means "to kill", and the stabbed it with thumb tacks.
We were both freaking out!! The entire zone came over to our apartment
last night and Elder Cheney jumped up on a chair and looked up for the first
time and said "I'm totally normal Elders" haha!!! We got
pranked by the entire zone!!! Elder Cheney it turns out was chosen as something
called the Spof (german for weird). This is a tradition of zone 135 and
my district will carry it on next week!!! The environment here is so
unique!! My companion Elder Duke is a High Jumper for Utah State.
He went to Brighton High School and took 2nd in state as a senior!!
He is also 6'7 and we must get asked 10 times a day how tall he is or if
he plays basketball!! It gets old fast. Anyways we teach our first
discussion in Spanish tonight so I need to go prepare!! I love you all
and I hope to hear from you soon!!!! Please no more candy haha. I would love
real food Por Favor :)
Elder Easton Ollerton
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