Disposable Heroes

October 1, 2009

Howdy, family

This will be my last e-mail from the MTC. Pretty amazing huh? My last P-day in here, we, or rather I, call P-day 'El Santa Dia' which means the holy day. Cause that's what it is. It's a holy day. So... Again I don't have too much to say, the MTC is boring. I'm glad to get out of here. Oh, okay, I got something. So on Wednesday, which was yesterday our district had the assignment, along with many others to be host missionaries, which means we get to help the new missionaries like on the day when I was dropped off. It was kinda fun, watching these families drop their sons off and bawling, it was hilarious. I saw the Ebmeyers, I didn't get a chance to talk to Elder Ebmeyer as he was whisked away by the other host missionaries but I did get to talk to Bro. and Sis. Ebmeyer and their other son whose name I can't remember... Trevon or something.... I can't remember anything anymore except churchy spanish stuff having to do with the mission.

Thanks for the phone card thing, I had never heard that we get to call home when in the airport, actually I think I did hear it but I thought it was a rumor or something or that it was for missionaries going international, I don't know. Someone will tell us, but I'll definitely try to call on Wednesday when we're in the airport. The 4 missionaries in my district who are going to Chile leave on Monday while the rest of us 6 Texicans leave Wednesday morning.

So conference will be this week, it will be pretty intense, probably the first time I'll have ever watched conference in sunday clothes, without a pillow or blanket, and without the crash of someone digging through the lego box. So yeah, it'll be good.

And Dad you didn't tell me how to say the joke with the brain sucker that hispanics don't get. I suppose I could figure it out myself though... Oh and Alyssa I want to know how your Latin is going with Dr. Lillian, I would guess that you've learned nothing at all, either because you've dropped the class or the fact that it's Dr. Lillian and she's crazy.

Well that's all I got to say, I've got a surprise for y'all on the way, you might get it on Monday or Tuesday, depending on when I get around to sending it. Oh and I need a couple things. My flip flops and some stamps. That'd be great if you could send that stuff. Okay, Paz Suerte. Which means 'peace out'. Though I don't think hispanics actually say that, in fact I'm sure they don't actually say that, we have a lot of random things like that, sayings we have in english that we translate into spanish but that no hispanic would ever say. They're funny.

-Elder Rice