So much of really nothing has happened this week. We did get to hear from Niel L. Andersen in a Tuesday Devotional, but I might've already said that. It was a good talk about how the Preach My Gospel book came about, and how all of the apostles had something to contribute, even those that were bedridden, and how it is a great message for our time. Pretty cool.
Beyond that, though,
the only semi-interesting thing is that 19M, the Gym/Devotional Area,
has been closed due to floor finishings. Because of that, 2 things have
happened: 1st, all of the devotionals will be at the Marriot Center on
BYU campus until the 21st, and 2nd, I have been playing Sand Volleyball
for every Gym time (since indoor volleyball took place in 19M), and I
have found that any sand in Utah is guaranteed to hit a couple hundred
degrees, at least that's what it feels like!
Yeah,
really nothing new here, just learning more Finnish. I have a pretty
good grasp of the language now, and am personally focusing on different
ways that the 16 cases are used.
I am so happy that Zandi and Megan want to go on Missions! I think that
the 3 of them (Nathan included) will go to the places as follows:
Zandi - Estonia
Megan - Denmark
Nathan - Sweden
Yes, they're all relatively
the same area, but that's fine! Nathan might be called Spanish Speaking,
though... That's my secondary guess!
I
haven't yet gotten any sort of package from anyone (except the belt
from Father), but I'm holding out hope! :) That being said, the
DearElder letters from you and Father both arrived on Wednesday, so I'm
not quite sure if that worked like you planned, since you narrated as if
I was getting it on Tuesday. Oh, well, I know that stuff will come
eventually from you guys!
Oh,
the fact that I just wrote "guys" reminds me: We can't say "guys" or
any sort of slang in my Zone, because if someone corrects it before we
correct it ourselves, we have to do 15 seconds of wallsits... Bearable,
but it can stack up FAST.
Umm, nothing
else really comes to mind... I trust y'all are doing well? (Y'all is NOT
slang here for me, since I'm from Oklahoma and apparently it's just
understood that I say "y'all" a lot.) I hope that everyone is surviving
their summers! Something I'd like you all to try to do for me while I'm
gone: Do kinda what Captain America did in the Winter Soldier: write
down anything you come across that I need to experience when I come
back, and compile it into a list! I don't care if it's an internet meme
like What Does the Fox Say, or if it's a movie/tv series that I must
experience; I'm open to all suggestions to catch back up to pop culture!
I just hope that America doesn't become super-technologically renovated
by the time I come back, I can't imagine missing a new piece of
technology like Virtual Reality or something like that! ...It's gonna
happen now, isn't it? Oh well!
I want to be able to send you a
few pictures later today, but I won't be able to upload them to the
Google Docs, since I'll be doing it from the Laundry room which doesn't
open anything but myldsmail.
Thanks
for always posting things to my blog! I'm gonna send a few specific
pics that it'd be cool if they could go on the blog. Pretty sure it can
host pictures... I'll also send them with some explanations, so it's not
just a random snapshot of random people/things!
That's
almost all I can think of... Oh! Remember Elder Burr? I guess his name
was actually Colten... either way! One of the Finnish Sisters (let me
rephrase that: the ONLY Finnish Sisar) said that she'd known that I was
going to be going to Finland because she knew Colten Burr! He
apparently came to her Single's Ward at least once, and when he heard
she was going to Finland, he told her about me and how I was going at
the same time! Apparently she friend-ed me on Facebook, and messaged
saying that she was going to the MTC at the same time to the same
mission as me. But, I never really checked Facebook in the months
leading up to my mission... Oh well! Funny how it's such a small world
and there's always at least one-person-steps to someone knowing cool
stuff about Finland or the mission there!
Well, my companion is getting antsy and pacing around, so I guess I'll close here! Message you some pics in a bit!
Love you,
Vanhin David Milligan
Vanhin David Milligan
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