Hey Family!
Rise and shine, its butt whooping time!!! We are doing
laundry right now and have to get up early because there are just so many
people. the cafeteria is soo packed, it is disgusting. thanks for
the pictures. you said that heather was
getting big but i didn't think that big. she looks completely
different! haha curtis as usual
just lounging around playing with toys and Xbox. that a boy. thanks
for the pictures and stories.
i have seen austin (elder watts) a few times this week. i had to
host someone else right before austin came in so they didn't see me because i
wasn't on the curb, but i saw him that day and see him all the time at
meals. our french branch just got split, so now there are two and we are
anticipating the big boom coming of french missionaries. that means that lauren
(sister hafen) might not be in the branch, but i am almost positive that she will be in our
hall of classrooms. i haven't heard if they are putting frenchies anywhere
else, besides the tahitians.
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| Where in the world are these missionaries going? |
just 2 more weeks for us! we get our travel plans this
week sometime and so i will let you know next week what the plan is. there are
a few rumors from an elder that went home awhile ago that we have a 10 hour
layover in paris, but it is all speculation so i'll know for sure this
week. all the other members in our district leave this week coming up
most on monday.
life sounds pretty good back home, even though it is really
busy and crazy with school. i am not going to host tomorrow so if anyone
was coming in i won't be on the curb. i can't remember when everyone
comes in now - it is all a mess. my french is coming along, still not
perfect but coming along nicely. there are two elders in our building,
one from Tahiti and the other from Guadalupe, that both are learning english
here so they pretty much speak only french. i was talking with them
yesterday and could communicate with them decently for the few sentences we
talked. it was awesome. they speak so fast and the Tahitian accent
is different, but it is so fun to communicate in our broken french and their
broken english. after that elder potter came back and was like
"french is a real language! they could understand me!"
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| District missionaries and teachers |
this week elder karras sends his love. and elder hatch
wants to know where his birthday gifts are. they are right next to me
here and wanted me to put a little bit about them, so that is what they told
me. I am ready to go to africa so bad. we met an elder who works in
the referral center, that went to benin for a month and a half and then came
back for some reason. he talks to us a lot about benin at lunch, and he
said he would bring some pictures by some day. one of the things he told us recently is that all the little
kids have a chant that they sing when the white missionaries walk down the
street, something like "yovo yovo bon soir bon noir bonjour something something
something." yovo is white boy in Fon (one of the african dialects in
Benin). he said you'll get really used to it. everything he tells me gets
me so pumped to go.
not very many picture this week. we are kind of going
crazy in here though. love ya all. have a great week. looking
forward to travel plans!!!
love love love. Elder Rybin