Week 3-Q & A time

Sometimes you just need to take the bull by the horns.  My bull is mighty cute but just not giving this momma the info needed, so this week I did a Q & A letter so that I could have the questions answered that I wanted.  My tactic proved successful.  Here's the content of Elder Summers and my question and answer session.

1. German?  How's the language coming?  Are you able to speak sentences or is it a struggle?  

  "My German is going swell.  I can speak decent but not as well as I would like to but that's ok."   

2. Companions and other missionaries?  How are the companionship's going?  Getting along ok? 

Elders Jablot, Summers and Quesada

"In my district is Elders Hale and Sorenson, me and Lingen, Petty and Johnson and the Sisters that are in some of the pictures are Price and Forseburg, but my fav Elder is Joblot, he is from *France and I love him to death! He is the one wearing glasses with short brown hair close to his head if you know which one I'm talking about I really like him, yeah he is just super cool. He has shown me pictures of his family and i have shown him pictures of mine, and unfortunately no, he isn't going to my mission, he is going to the England mission.  His English is going good but he does not really understand it that well.  I don't know how to describe it but yeah, he's my favorite.  I'll get his email stuff but i think it might be a while before he understand English well enough, haha"   

*(side not from mom... this is almost miraculous that Ben has such a kindred spirit bond with the French Elder, he's never thought too highly of the French, tsk tsk.  I love how the softening of his heart has taken place, the true love of Christ is showing and that he feels maybe that preexistence connection between a "long time friend" found again.)

3. Who drew the futball dream picture?  Jack is convinced it wasn't you because the handwriting is too nice.  :)  That was one of my favorite pictures, well they all were my favs, especially the Book of Mormon one with the tag and ring. 

He likes to play futball now

 "The person who drew the picture was Elder Johnson, he wants me to go to college at the University of Utah with him when we get back.   I have a question with my Oklahoma promise, will I still have it when I get back? Like I said Elder Johnson wanted me to go to the University of Utah and its about 3-4 grand. How much is OSU?"

4. Can you share one spiritual impression or feeling that you've had since entering the MTC?  If you can't think of any or don't wish to share it's ok. Can you feel daddy around you?  just curious.:)

(I'm leaving this one unedited because I haven't the foggiest what the kid was trying to say for the most part...)

 "Pretty much all the devos we have are spiritual. I can feel something the ne we just had from Bednar was my fav ots about is it the HG of is it me"  good luck deciphering that :)  STOP THE PRESSES!!!  after rereading this snippet several times I think I cracked the code.... "I can feel something, the one we just had from Bednar was my fav, it's about is it the Holy Ghost or is it me?"  Why was that so hard for me to figure out?  :)

5. How is teaching going?  I presume that you've started giving "discussions", weird, strange, or pretty ok?

"Yeah we started teaching our "investigators" our 2nd day here and its not that bad, I just need more German to get better."

6. What have you done on p-day this week?  

"On pday we go to the market and buy things there, mostly candy and other junk like that.   It's just a fun break form the MTC that's why I go anyways, and when we get back we email and sleep haha."

7. Have you had interviews with Pres. Preston?  

"I have not really had chances to talk with him but i love him." (from my mom's letter...)  "Thank you for what you wrote on the MTC wall with the picture. President pulled me into his office and handed me a slip of paper and on it was a print out of what you wrote and he let me keep it so thank you for that I really needed that."   

8. Do you know how the Mother's Day phone call or Skype will go yet?  

 "I dont know if I can skype you on mday but I know I can call you.  I hope I can skype!  I'll let you know as soon as I can."

  I'm a jingle type of gal, so in my head I sing this song almost daily, "after all there's only (insert number of sleeps until pday) more sleeps till P-day!"  Think a Muppet's Christmas Carol and Kermit the Frog singing about how many more sleeps till Christmas day.  Like I've said, getting a letter is like Christmas, it's wonderful, heart warming, and just not long enough.  Have a fabulous week and remember, there's only 7 more sleeps till P-day!