So, cool thing happened this week. our class was chosen out of the entire MTC to be the representitives for the MTC and be the example district for a white house dignitary i honestly cant remember his name but he is incharge of corresponding with all the religions in the US and such, young guy. 31 i think. also the really cool part was that Elder Hinkley (pres. Hinkleys' son and wife came too :) SUPER AWESOME EXPERIENCE!
on the down side one of our brothers went home yesterday, so from a super high to a super low so now im the senior companion of the only elder tripanionship on the zone. its almost scary when one day one of the beds are just empty... but he'll be back. he's not the kind of guy to just quit.
the under classmen got here and alot of them have a buch of japanese background and they are further along than i am and its they're second day. kinda discourageing but at the same time its all good. whats happening at home? how the whole masters thing going? mom you should write me more than just "write me i miss you" because i want to know whats going on over there and in the world. i'm kinda cut off from all news of any sort. i miss yall but time is going so fast here. its like the days are weeks but the weeks are days. its a crazy feeling. only 4 weeks till we ship out to Sapporo. :) super excited. :) languare is coming.
i love you guys, write me back please.
Love, Parker.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Halloween Time Update
I love the MTC its wesome here (the stress is basically gone). I found Phil!!! and Bradly! Phil is studying Portugese on the floor below me and Brad is on the other side of the building but he's on the same floor as me :). Its so cool seeing them again. Phil and I are leaving the same day (I think) apparently all the guys here are under the impression that i'm some cool popular guy. Maybe they'll see the loser inside me but until then its kinda fun having that image. Japanese is still way difficult but things are starting to click now :) Can't wait to hear from you again!
Love,
Elder Sims
Love,
Elder Sims
Pushing Forward
Dear mom/dad/anyone else who reads this
how are you guys? i got those lyrics thanks dad. i memorized them. hahaha im becomeing an ipod human. (its a youtube video. "ipod human" look it up) so how are things at home doing? dad says he's gonna go in for his masters and then the missionaries are moving in dec 1st? lots of crazy stuff. sounds exciting! we're still learning japanese. all the missionaries that were here left las week and this comming wednesday we get our kohai (under classmen) and we become senpai (upper classmen). my district is the example district but it doesnt feel like we are. probably because we're always studying and not paying attention to the other choro/shimaitachi (choro = elder) (shimai = sister) (tachi = put on the end of a noun to make it plural). i've definately been feeling a little homesick but onle 22 1/2 months to go so its not that bad. i have a feeling that by the time i do have to come home, im not going to want to leave. there are so many elders here from all over the world its amazing! all going to diffirent places around the world and learning diffirent languages some even learning english. yet we all have one purpose in mind. i've seen steven a few times and even had sunday icecream with him. ( i picked up a couple russian words too) its fun to trade stories anytime. and call eachother tools in our respective languages. i've been working out a bunch and my muscles are in some serious pain but it feels good to be in shape. how is everything? tell me about your lives! someone said something about something happenening to some elders down in texas (any news?) please forward this over to mary so she can throw it up on the blog. is she keeping up with it at all? Oh! we started teaching eachother. so we each have a character that we play and we get taught twice a week along with teaching our other "investigators" so we now have a total of 4 investigators that we teach every week multiple times a week. its fun but some of our investigators are kinda tough (the other elders) but we'll deal with it. i love you guys
Love, Elder Sims
P.S. thank you so much for the care package :)
how are you guys? i got those lyrics thanks dad. i memorized them. hahaha im becomeing an ipod human. (its a youtube video. "ipod human" look it up) so how are things at home doing? dad says he's gonna go in for his masters and then the missionaries are moving in dec 1st? lots of crazy stuff. sounds exciting! we're still learning japanese. all the missionaries that were here left las week and this comming wednesday we get our kohai (under classmen) and we become senpai (upper classmen). my district is the example district but it doesnt feel like we are. probably because we're always studying and not paying attention to the other choro/shimaitachi (choro = elder) (shimai = sister) (tachi = put on the end of a noun to make it plural). i've definately been feeling a little homesick but onle 22 1/2 months to go so its not that bad. i have a feeling that by the time i do have to come home, im not going to want to leave. there are so many elders here from all over the world its amazing! all going to diffirent places around the world and learning diffirent languages some even learning english. yet we all have one purpose in mind. i've seen steven a few times and even had sunday icecream with him. ( i picked up a couple russian words too) its fun to trade stories anytime. and call eachother tools in our respective languages. i've been working out a bunch and my muscles are in some serious pain but it feels good to be in shape. how is everything? tell me about your lives! someone said something about something happenening to some elders down in texas (any news?) please forward this over to mary so she can throw it up on the blog. is she keeping up with it at all? Oh! we started teaching eachother. so we each have a character that we play and we get taught twice a week along with teaching our other "investigators" so we now have a total of 4 investigators that we teach every week multiple times a week. its fun but some of our investigators are kinda tough (the other elders) but we'll deal with it. i love you guys
Love, Elder Sims
P.S. thank you so much for the care package :)
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