October 8, 2008

hello fam fam!

so i finally got this silly email thing figured out and thats good because i ran out of stamps and i dont feel like going to get more haha. but anyways, How are you all? everyones health is doing great i hope? Hows grandma? make sure you tell her i love her and am praying for her. Man, this mtc thing is a disease pit. I have been sick just about everyother week here. I'm never really sick but its just uncomfortable. its terrible because i sanitize my hands everytime i see a dispenser and i take my vit. C so i dont know what to do haha. but all is well, things are still going great here, its just kinda like the calm before the storm i think because i can speak the language pretty ok (for being in the mtc) so all the teachers are just kind of babysitty i think and were just trying to build vocab, but like i said its the calm before the storm when we all get there and cant understand anything haha.

But this is all very exciting. We get our flight plans sometime next week and then were off the following week! i will be out of the mtc in about a week and 5or 6 days! i'm pretty excited ! last week im not sure if i told you but we had a member of parliment in indonesia come and visit our class, it was really interesting!, he didnt seem that interested in teaching us but his little wife was so funny, she kept on yelling: saya pasti, saya dapat, saya bisa, tidak munkin, etc which just means: i am sure, i can, i can, not maybe.she was just telling us that we need to be sure and know that we can spread the gospel.

It was really cool. even though she wasnt mormon, she is christian and apparently over there because there are so fwe christians, many of the christians that dont believe in us will still really support us just because were christian which sounds very promising. o ya get this the guys name was parlindungan perba which is one letter off from perlindungan which means protection haha which i thought was kindof funny. speaking of which the word duka, which i so often called duke means sorrow hahaha. and adipati means duke...im not sure why i remembered that but i looked it up after being here for like a week haha.but anyways...thats crazy about prop 8...thats doesnt make any since because its private property, if you or dad could let me know more info on that i would appreciate it.

That sounds great about erick and megans house! is it closer to work for e-rock? i shall try my hardest to send the watch home before i leave, thats annoying it doesn't work, i was actually wearing it too. I'll just get a cheap cool one in malasia. I also plan on getting snake skin boots...i hear they have them all over there, so dad i may come back looking like a eastern cowboy if thats possible, haha. dont worry about money mom i they have a atm here. \So about studying i study seriosly about 10 hours a day and the majority of it is language study just because even my scripture study is in indonesian. but sometimes we read out of preach my gospel in english so thats almost about it for english scripture sudy. but it is true i study more language than scripture per say, except all i'm studying in language is religious stuff so i guess that answers the question haha.

And it is getting a little cool here but no i wont be needing a coat thank you though. O ya konfresi umum, general conference was great! i ran out of time i only have 2 minutes left but i got to watch all the sessions and i have tons of notes i need to review but off the top of my head i really really enjoyed the talk by president uchtdorf saturday about hope. harapan. It really was quite inspiring. all of confrence was inspiring. its different in the mtc, its a different experience. Ok well sorry i rambled about not much this entire letter but time is up in 45 secs so i love you all and hope you are all doing great. be safe and know that i pray for you all...in indonesian isnt that cool!

love elder johnson