Thanks for the Packages!

Hi Everyone,

HEY THANKS FOR ALL THE PACKAGES!!! HOLY smokes everyone came through this week! and everyone in my zone appreciated it! I am still having fun and doing GREAT!!! I cannot beleive that I am only eleven days from leaving its nuts!! I cannot wait but I also have enjoyed this alot more then I thought I would!

Spanish came along really well this week! it seems like every week I have a period where it feels like I will never learn the language then, it all comes together and I feel like I will be able to actually really speak it some day. and this week was no different. Sunday it felt like I could not put to spanish words together then on Tuesday "yesterday" when I taught in the TRC in spanish I literally just talked and I did not even really feel like I was speaking spanish. I got done and I kinda looked at my companion like was that spanish or what? and he said that it was the best I had ever done! I was kinda excited about that! He has kinda been struggling with spanish so he usually gets frustrated and has me teach alot of the time. the thing is that he has alot more vocabulary then me and is ALOT better at memorizing stuff, but he just gets nervous I think... He is a smart kid and he is alot of fun, he will figure it out!

Ok for the funny story of the week, the zone across the hall from us in our Condos "we call our rooms the condos" are really really like uncomfortable and just kinda boring, its one thing to be obedient, and its one thing to be boring, and THEY are boring. So I have started talking to some of them and kinda become friends with some of them that are trying to enjoy themselves at times and so I was walking through there hall giving out stickers "which emily sent in her package" and most of them have erally supportive sayings on them like "your number 1" or "Keep on Going" or "A+" and so I was coming out of the bathroom one night when I had a idea... and it was a fantastic one. I started giving out stickers to people after they came out of the stalls and saying cheesy sayings like " do you know what you are... Your NUMBER 1". Basically I would find a way to associate whatever the sticker said on it into what I told them. It made a few really uncomfortable, but most of them really enjoyed it!

I really like the new district from last week. They are really cool and not doing anything stupid. And we got a new district this week which puts our zone at 33 people. they all seem really cool and there is a kid from cincinnati who said that the spanish missionaries there are definately the cooler ones and he says he knows a whole bunch of them. so that is cool, and I met a kid whose brother went there spanish speaking and said he learned spanish like he would of had he gone to mexico! so that is always good to hear! on other news There is one bedroom in our hall that is not in our zone, and I saw this big Elder talking outside it and I was like whoah, is that Quentin Johnson! The answer is yes and he is not in my zone but sleeps 3 rooms down from me. We had a nice talk, he seems like a nice kid and it will be fun to kinda catch up with him considering I probably have not talked to him in 8 years or so!!!
Basketball has picked up here. all the kids who were in college are now here so it is far more competitive!!! I have been playing with all the best players and holding my own... I ruined a kid who was on a full ride at QB for BYU in football and was like some star basketball player in high school he is 6'5''... He dunked on me but I outplayed him outscored him and blocked him silly... and my team won... and his team was way better. I like basketball alot better then soccer. my 10 year scoring streak ended cause I played goalie. so there is nothing to play for anymore!!!


So the jist of this email is that life is Great, I cannot wait to get to cincinnati, but I am actually gonna miss the MTC. I have made so many friends and learned so much it has been really a great expirience for me, but with that said I am not going to ask to stay back or anything!



I love you all and thanks for the packages! It is always nice to get mail!

Love Elder Stiles