Hey family!
How is life back home? I am doing alright here.
We got a new mission president this week, President Nally. so far he has
been good. this means i will have four mission presidents on my mission,
if you count the ones here at the mtc. thanks for your letters. the
watch you sent me got scratched a little bit. it is not a lot and doesn't
really bother me, but if there is some kind of warrantee, i can send it back,
but if not no worries because I'm sure it would probably just happen again
sometime in the next two years.
over half way now though. the tahitian district in our
branch just left so now those that came on dec 19 are the oldest. we get
one sister this week and then something like 48 the next week. then two
weeks after that another 45 - pretty crazy! I finished my mormon.org
profile, but can't upload a picture here. mom will you do that for me and
then submit it if everything sounds good? thank you. Also i do need
some replacement razor blades. my first is gone and second is being used
right now. no rush, but sometime in the next week or two would be great.
it would probably be a good idea to send me a whole lot that i can take to
africa.
only four weeks for the benin elders, and three for the lyon
and canada elders. that is so crazy! three weeks feels like such a
short time, but 4 seems much longer than a week more. this week we had
our malaria meeting. we picked up our pills and start taking them.
nothing to worry about, just take them and you should be fine.
my french is still improving. i can speak better and
faster each, day and understand more and more, but it still is hard to
understand a real french speaking person. and I'm sure it will be really
hard to understand in africa too.
tell dani that st. petersburg is awesome!! and that i
am so excited for her. she will be a great missionary. i am going to
try to find the st. petersburg elders. i think they are a couple floors up from
me in the classroom, and tell them when they see her to say hi from me. I
have done that with a few other people, especially those elders going to paris
for lauren and natalie haha.
Thank you Crystal for your letter, that was awesome.
trina, curtis and heather you guys are awesome. i love you. if you have
any questions then you should ask them to me and then i can have more stuff to
talk about. oh and elder hatch says hi. he is another friend from
af going to congo, speaking french.
i need to go get breakfast now though, so i think i am going
to go. i forgot my camera so no pictures this week. there is one
picture of elder clarke, elder hatch's companion right after he drank HALF a
jar of queso. it was so nasty!!!! we had it left over from the
chips we were eating, and he was like... I'll drink that. and then he did.
it was so nasty. so far our record
for a eating whole bag of restaurant style chips with queso as a district -
just the elders :) - is 2 minutes 36 seconds. I'm not sure if i should be
proud or disgusted by that record, but i am. love you all! good
luck nathan in wrestling, and way to go sticking it out especially with school
and all that. Emma i will try to get a letter written to you soon.
benjamin i would write you a letter if you ever wrote me.... mom you are
the best! i love you so much!
I'll write you all next week, talk to you in 4 weeks and see
you in 22 and a half months.
love, elder rybin