Hi everyone, how is it going this week, your Dear Elders that you have sent
are really nice to read and keeps me in the loop kind of haha. It's Friday again and we're up at 4:45 in the
morning because we're doing Laundry because the rush that the laundry room gets
during our scheduled time is rediculous and takes an unecessary extra hour of
sitting there and waiting for someone to get back for thier washer to be empty
so we can put our clothes in, and then another half an hour because we have to
wait for our companions to ge their stuff in the wash, it's not that we need
more time in the afternoon to do things it's that we don't want to take 3 hours
to do laundry in the very hot and boring room of the Laundry room so that would
be why. I'm doing more and more in Slovak trying to prep myself to become
independant and I'm memorizing the charts that do the cases for personal
pronouns as well as when the endings of words change due to the casing. It's
funny because my teachers know these cases but neither of them do them right all
of the time and they catch themselves with it and they know that people still
understand and they laugh because people in Slovakia are very kind to foreigners
learning their language so they always want to help but when in reality they
don't do it right either, just kind of humorous. 10 Days from today and we will (hopefully) be leaving
for Slovakia, nerve-wracking but more excited than nervous persoanlly, I don't
know about everyone else since there is 25 of us leaving that day and probably
25 of us flying the same planes to London and then splitting there. Our teacher
thinks that we're ready to go, and will only be more prepared, they've taught us
pretty much all of the principles of the language and now it's just about
practicing the language until we get the principles down, which I personally
know how to perform the grammer but need it to be driven into my head so we're
trying to speak 40 hours this coming week which will be hard but actually not
that hard because 40 hours is about 5 hours and 45 minutes a day which when
you're up for 16 doesnt make it all that hard so we're probably going to try, at
least I will, to go over that.
Today we should be receiving our travel plans and infact they could quite
possibly already be there in the mail which is awesome! So we're gonna check
that before we go back to the residence, I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to
leave with everyone else and I'm excited that I should only have 1 more week in
the boot, it's annoying not being able to play sports and walk at a normal place
even though I will have to sit on it for a couple more weeks maybe months before
I can actually do something on it but that's fine I can deal with that I just
want my shoes to be equally worn haha.I think i'll make it out with everyone
else and I guess you don't actually need a visa to be in the country so I should
be fine ther I think, our teacher said he lived in the country for a month
without having his Visa, so I don't think it will matter so much, maybe but
doubtful he says. I'll get pictures of our zone the last Saturday before we go and I'll probably be sending my
boot home in Friday when I get it
taken off so I'm not sure if I'll be paying for it or if I'll be sending it home
and then you have to pay for it or what, any insight on that would be nice. I
might just tkae pictures on the msall memory card and then just send that one to
you as well, we'll just have to see what's the msot convenient. By the way, did
you receive the pictures that I sent last week, I would think you did but I
don't actually know so... If you could tell me that would be great. So the MTC
gives us $54 to spend while we're here over the course of the 9 weeks so the
I've been stockpiling and would have had $30 this week but I started to buy tuff
for over there like a shoe shine sponge and then also some pads to stick on the
bottom of my shoe for traction and other small stuff like that. As for stuff
that I want to go over there I don't really know, I'll always take Reese's and
the stuff like that so I'll have room, there's some stuff that I'm not going to
have in the Suitcase now that will make it lighter like the whole bottle of
shampoo, and I'm not sure if I'm going to give away or send you home the contact
liquid because I have no use for the giant bottle that I havent opened haha
because I only have 2 sets of contacts now and I'm only done with half the small
bottle so unless you're going to get me more contacts, which is fine, I won't
need that haha. I am thankful for mom packing a lot of stuff that I may or
may not use at all but it's there just in case that has been helpful on many
occasions.
Some stories from this week include me playing softball and standing in the
outfield not moving never getting the ball thrown to me ever so I brought my
chair when I went out and just sat
down because it was nbever going to come to me but at least it got me paying
attention to stuff, the ball never went to me but that's besides the principle
of the thing. We really do have a lot of fun here even if we have to make our
own fun sometimes just to get out of the routine of constant studies, it's nice
to have that time and we use it, probably better than everyone else in the zone,
but it's also nice to just relax and not have to worry about something that
needs to be done, or some grammer idea that we need to learn about, except that
we will be speaking the language some of the time during the day. We usually
play uno when we have free time now, and the zone is trying to play pranks on
the other kids in the zone, it's funny because they're just harmless and no one
actually get mad. Like one time, one of my companions hid under the bed of the
Croations with one of the other Croations in a different room excpet for the
other one got caught and they barely missed my companions, so my companion with
the patience of a mad man waits for 3 hours for every to get asleep and then
very very slowly inches his way out from under the bed almost hitting people in
the process, but once he's out he starts just taking stuff out and putting in on
the ground, so like food and books and shoes out of closets anything that he can
take out quietly. So he does this and one of their elders sleeps on the floor
because his bed doesn't work and it hurts more to sleep on it than the bed and
hemoves the sheet that is under the door and a lot of light shines on this
Elder, so he quickly does it and makes it out of the room without any of the
waking up. So in the morning they clean everything up and we hear them talking
about it and they think one of them was Sleep-walking and taking everything out
haha. So we told them and they laughed really hard because they had looked under
the bed where he was at because they caught the other Elder but then they didn't
see him. it was really funny and crazy that night and my companion got in to our
room without a peep.
Another Story from yesterday
is that one of the Elders going to Czech is really interested in my job because
I told him what his suit was and then also what everyone elses shoes/ties were
here so he gets really excited about that stuff and I was telling him about
Allen Edmonds ( the orangish shoes that I have in the dresser window). So yesterday he gets a Dear Elder from his
Brother who just got home from a mission and tells him that he just bought a
pair of Allen Edmonds and he tells me I was in class reading it and read that
and then started to run to you, and his teacher stops him and asks what he's
doing so he sits back down and is like, umm I don know... So after class he
comes and shows me and then tells me that their blue with red laces, so I
proceeded to tell him about what model, the coolness of it, the the popularness,
when they came out and then how much they cost haha. it was funny because I was
able to tell him the model without his brother actually telling him, as well as
what they look like, which they were Allen Edmonds Neumoks, Blue, Wingtip, new
model casual dress shoe, looks good with jeans, not super expenisve but still
more than the average shoe, popular and good looking, and then also the colors
that they come in also, he was pretty amazed, I think that I may have been
ruined for life with shoes and suits...
So thank you everyone for sending me Dear Elders this week, they were all
funny and nice to know, thanks Jackie for more updates on Jake's wedding you can
tell him Congrats for me as well as it's cool that John Wayne is in a swimming
class and I'm sure that he just wants to play around haha. Thatnk you mom and
dad for your letters, I hope that you are both safe on your trip up to Utah and
it's a shame that you will have to be home by Monday, but I will be calling you from the airport even if I
have to skip my Cafe Rio date (just kidding I'll just buy it for on the plane if
I have to). Let me know what numbers to call, I think that I shouldn't have a
problem with time because I will buy a calling card, I don;t know exactly how
those will work but I'll figure it out so I'm not psedning $40 at the airport, I
don't know if those will come preloaded with minutes and if I'll have to buy 2
of them or what but I'll figure it out and ask them. I got the Donuts on Friday night and of course everyone
wanted one thank you very much I had like 3 or 4, they were delicious! I think
that I've gained about 5 pounds here or so, funny because one of my companions
has gained about 15 and is now trying to work it off. I did use the gun and we
did play our game with it and we will probably play it agian once or twice more
so thank you so much for that and the stars are all over our room and they are
very very cool at night. We made constellations with them and we have the best
room at night haha. Everything has been great, even though I feel bad or having
you spend money on it, but I have been using them and I also have way too much
food and candy, I don't know where to put it all haha but thank you so much for
it, it has made the stay here much more bearable because the food has gotten
progressivle worse as time has gone one, it's not bad but theres definitely a
pattern, my companion also say the streetfood in Slovakia is amazing, so I'm
ready for that!
Anyways time is almost up for my laundry and we want to go check for our
travel plans, anyways I love you guys a lot and I miss you even more, next week
will be my last P-Day in the MTC and that will probably be spent prepping for
monday. 1 ransfer almost down 11
more to go, puts into perspective how short my time here really is. Anyways I
love you all, be safe!
Love,
Elder Preston Ferrell
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