Well I think I'm about half way
right about now, so that's pretty cool, I'm on the downward slope and now I
really have to prepare for going into the Country. This first month for me
hasn't really been that big of a deal, the days feel short, the weeks feel
short, time kind of just slips away, it really feels like it's been 2 days
since my last P-day, Sundays seem to take the longest. I'm learning as
much as I can with the language and all that, as compared to everyone else, our
class is ahead of where everyone else is or was at the time that
we're at. It's a lot because of us only having 3 people in our class and
because we teach fake investigators and that takes around a half hour, but we
do it in companionships and we teach our teachers, so most of the time everyone
else is trying to learn the language on their own, but you know how kids are
when it comes to doing stuff on their own, so they do a lot of sitting around
whereas we don't have that luxury. So as far as the grammatical structure of
the language we are far ahead of a lot of the other classes. As well as we have
1 teacher whose personality is like, you're going to learn how to do this, and
now, and is amazing at pounding in the language and is very dedicated to us
being prepared when we go over there. As well as the other teacher who teaches
more, but is a really amazing teacher all around, we are all in agreement that
they are the best on the floor and they constantly have other teacher watching
their class to see how teaching should be. Everyone is surprised at how much we
understand our teacher speaking the
language and at how we are able to respond to him. We have a lot to studying to
do but we'll be just fine I think. My companions tell me every week that I have
an unexplainable knack for the language and it annoys them haha, So, I don't
know but I'm not all that afraid about going there and not being able to
understand it at all, I just know that I will have Heavenly Fathers help and
that through him I will be just fine.
I'm really interested in giving
tours of church buildings even if I may not be giving very many of them haha. I
met my mission president on Saturday before the broadcast and we talked for
about an hour or so about us and about their family and what's going to happen
in the country. They have 4 kids, a 15 year old, 13 year old, 9 and 7 I think,
and he said that we'll all be able to come to the 7 year olds baptism so we can
look forward to that and boy am I. Their kids are going to go to an
international school in Prague. they actually left today for the Czech Republic
and left the MTC on Wednesday from the
seminar with the prophet and Apostles.
We have since quit the choir and vow
to never return haha. We could read the teleprompter. But yeah it was cool, I pulled out my blue
suit from the Slovakia bag because I'm going to need it regardless when I get
the black one dry cleaned and wore it and the pants actually fit better than
the black ones, the black ones are really long haha.
Some of the Bulgarians in our zone
got their travel plans today and they leave not this
Tuesday but the one after it so they're super excited. They go to
Chicago then London and then Sofia Bulgaria, that is probably what we'll do as
well except to Prague so that's what I'm expecting in about 3 weeks. I'm 80%
sure we'll get our plans in 3 weeks and have about 3 weeks left of actual class
time because the last week is different than usual and we don't have much time
for actual class, because we have in field training
We get sent to the airport like 6
hours early when we leave I think so they allow us to call home at the airport
as well as actually eat some good food, and I'm happy for that. All I know is that I
believe there's a Cafe Rio in the airport and that I will be going to it. I
will buy a phone card from the library so I can use the phones in the airport
because they're like 5 bucks here, so that'll be cool and you can look forward
to that. I'll need to move some money to my checking account when I go to leave
because we are supposed to pay for our own baggage there and then get
reimbursed from our mission president so i'll need that eventually. .
Well, I guess my laundry is getting
dry because we uusally do it during this time (Laundry day is amazing because
some stuff is gross, not even my stuff, haha). I'm surprised at how much I've
written I hope you enjoy it because I don't have anything else to do haha. I
can't tell you how great it is to receive DearElders here it makes you look
forward to something during the day. Dad sent me a story of Al the tatooed
Mormon, I have actually read that before I came here, I saw it somewhere, on
Facebook maybe and have read that story that you sent. Nonetheless, it is still
a really cool story and I enjoyed reading it again haha.
Jackie, Richard, and Samantha all
sent me letters this week which I appreciate endlessly, thank you very much.
For Samantha, thank you for your address and I've sent you a letter yesterday, I hope it arrives not 2 months down
the road, and I hope I put enough stamps on it which I think I did because it
didn't wind up in my mailbox, if I didn't and they send it to you and you have
to pay for it, sorry about that, let me know how much it is and I'll send
another envelope with a dollar at a time so people don't steal it haha. Sorry
for Richard that he has to sell his car because Asha thinks it's a barf bag
haha, maybe someday you'll get to drive your 911 around for more than a couple
months or so. For Jackie, thanks for your letters and for taking the time to
rewrite them haha, I know that can be painful and probably was, and I hope if
you ever wanna have a 1 sided conversation you look for me because I love
reading letters here haha. I got 5 dear elder papers yesterday,
and then the letter from Taylor and the package so that was cool haha. You have
no idea how much it means to me that everyone is taking time to write me and
makes the days and weeks go by even quicker. I hear bits and pieces about Todd
and Jen but nevertheless, Congrats to them both I wish them a happy time haha.
Anyways my time is up and I must go
get my stuff from the laundry room and then prepare for dinner and class but I
want everyone to know that I love them very much and thanks again for the
letters, Oh and I'll try to get some pictures out later today or tomorrow when I can get a SD reader, but I don't
think you need to send me one unless you can get a cheap SD reader and send it
with everything else. Anyways I love you guys!!!
Love,
Elder
Preston Ferrell
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