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| Elder West and Elder Bramell showing us where Vanuatu is |
Hey so this email is only for us to say a quick little hello. Our pday is wednesday so that's when i'll be able to write more. But I'm doing good so far. The food's fairly okay and everyone is real nice. I have 8 elders in my district and no sisters. There are some sisters going to Vanuatu but they aren't in our district. 4 of us are going to Vanuatu and the other 4 are going to Trinidad. My companion is Elder West, and the other 2 elders going to Vanuatu are Elder McQuivey and Elder Thomas. The other 4 elders are Elder Plumb, McGee, Birch, and Mahelona. They're all good guys. I'm sorry I don't have any pictures I'll be able to send those Wednesday. On Sunday President Nelson is going to be here so that's exciting. Alright I don't have a lot of time to write much else. I want you guys to know I miss you and I love you guys, tell everyone else I love them too.
Elder Curtis Bramell
09 DEC 2015
Hey everyone, how's it going? It's been all good over here. I've got one week down at the MTC. I leave for Vanuatu on Sunday! I fly from here to SF to New Zealand to Fiji to Vanuatu. I am going to get there on Tuesday. I'm the travel leader which basically means I make sure no one is getting left behind. But it's still exciting! By the way Elder Nelson didn't speak to us but he was here. Yesterday we had Sister Oscarson speak so look it up. On Sunday we watched the Christmas devotional and it took a while to get connection so the whole audience here at the MTC sang 9 songs in a row. Then we watched the "Character of Christ" by David A. Bednar and that was like the greatest thing ever you guys have to watch it.
But you know my district is basically the best district here. Just 8 of us Elders. (Mahelona changed his name to Siliva) but Elder West and I get along well. Elder Thomas, McQuivey, West and I basically hang out all the time. We love to play volleyball together. They are all some pretty cool guys. We have a lot of fun together.
We get to go to the temple later today at like 3 so that'll be nice. Yesterday we got some instruction on Malaria and some pills. They also took some blood samples. When the lady was taking my blood something broke and so she felt bad and gave me 2 pounds of candy. It doesn't hurt that much. But I have to take a pill everyday for my whole mission. But it's not so bad. Alright I have to wrap up this email because I'm in the middle of laundry so I'll be back on in a second...
So I'm exhausted. The MTC is so busy all the time. We have been teaching "investigators". One of them is our teacher so obviously it's just role play. We are really good with him because we already gave him a BoM. But then we have a TRC investigator ( I don't know what TRC means so don't ask), and it is going terribly. The first lesson we started off bad. We thought he said "come in" but he said "one second" so he doesn't really like us. The second lesson was singlehandedly the WORST teaching experience of my life. We were going to talk about the Restoration but he asked us like 5 extremely difficult questions that we didn't know the answer to, so we just fumbled our way through it making absolutely no sense at all. It was the worst. Apparently he's that way for all missionaries; and I don't know if he's a member or not so it's just more stressful. But we get like hardly any time to ourselves. Elder West and I taught Priesthood on Sunday and that went very well. Everyone here is super jealous that we get to leave so quickly and go somewhere so cool. We are the only guys with short sleeves. You are required to wear suit jackets to big meetings but our district doesn't have jackets so we don't have to. The food here is pretty good. They only have original life cereal so that's sad but I just get chocolate milk all the time. I will have to send some stuff home because of the airline rules. the airlines require 50 lb bags with 15 lb carry-ons.So I'll be sending stuff back. Other than that its been pretty good. I'll probably email again on Tuesday or next Monday so until then!
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| In front of the Provo, Utah Temple |
11 DEC 2015
OK so the most frightening thing just happened. I got a message in the mail a couple days ago saying I will go to Vanuatu without my visa and so did all the other Vanu's. Then today some other Vanu's got a letter saying their visas were delayed and they were going to Arizona. I thought I was fine until they said they got the message saying they didn't need visas as well. So we started freaking out! I did NOT want to go to Arizona (no offense Arizona). So we went down to the mail room and...
I'm still going to Vanuatu straightaway. Biggest relief of my life! I'm still sad for those who can't go straight there, but maybe that's were they need to be for a little bit. Anyway other than that I'm okay. Everything will go as planned. Whew. Stay safe guys. Love you all!
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| The District |
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