First MTC email
Monday, August 25th, 2008Below is an email we received from Tyler. Coincidentally, we received this email on the same day we received his first (written) letter.
i sent a letter a couple days ago and if you have not gotten it yet then don’t read this one. I got your letter the same day you wrote it from the dear elder site. That seems to work pretty well so i think you guys should send me letters that way and not email me because i only have half an hour on the computer, andrea can send me letters in the mail tho, im willing to let it slide until she learns how to write. Everything is going well here I am doing really well in spanish but i am tired all the time. I give my prayers and testimony in spanish now, they are pretty short but its a start.
I have also started reading The Book of Mormon in spainsh its amazing because when i took spanish in school i could never get more than a few verses in becasuse it was so difficult but yesterday i read almost four chapters in spanish. Mom i thought you should know that i have been using the laundry bag you gave me, no my room is not as clean as it should be but most of my dirty cloths are in the bag and my desk is kinda strait. i guess we’ll see how long that lasts. Kayla asked about my branch in your letter and i cant remember how much i said about it but my district has ten people in it and my branch as about 35-40 people. our branch president is really cool he reminds me of brother beckstead without the flower ties. The MTC is almost half spanish branches with missionaries going everywhere from spain, to boise, to new york. oh and kayla, native spainsh speakers go to the brazil MTC unless they are going state side and there is only one dialect of spanish taught in the MTC but my teacher is ecuadorian so im not worried about learning a dialect that i wont be using. you may be suprised to learn that i have been taking notes. not the kind of notes that most people take but i do take them. what i do is when i hear something that i want to remember or write down later, like an event i want to include in my letter or a good scripture, i write a couple of words down that will jog my memory when i read it later. one of the more interesting rules that i leaned about when we got here was that we can’t say “dude” or “guys” anymore, especialy to each other, my roommate has really stuggled with it because he used to say “dude” all the time but i dont have to many slip ups. i have more that i wanted to say but im running out of time, i hope that you are all doing well and that i hear from you soon.
les quiero,
Elder Walke
