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this week has been great it's the same as normal nothing different
really, just doing the same stuff over and over again it gets boring
sometimes but its all good... I saw Uncle Shawn on Tues it was amazing
seeing some family and see some outside world right haha.. New Years was
good... I got a Subway from my mom which was amazing the MTC food gets a
little old sometimes... we all went to bed at 10:30 so really wasn't
much of a new years but it don't matter... the first fast Sunday as a
missionary was great so many great testimonies shared in our sacrament
meeting... our district is still way close and we all get along so
well, I feel like they're just all my friends from back home doing the
same stuff but instead learning about the gospel and preaching it... I
saw Sam Pedro and see him quite often. It's great I love having some of
my friends from back home in the MTC... there is this elder from
Minnesota in our zone he is going to Cambodia... crazy but he has been
telling me allot about it and about the Hmong wards and stuff there
sounds great he and I are really close he plays sports at Southern
Virginia University he said that I should go play basketball there ha
ha, but he also said that the missionaries aren't aloud to proselyte if
its -30 below so that's good but even if its - 20 that's not good never
felt cold like that... there is this elder that is amazing at beat
boxing tell Hunter and anyone else to look him up on YouTube his YouTube
channel is called "PKeliteBeats" search that in YouTube its crazy but
anyway yea nothing much has happened around here just the same ole same
ole.. Dad will you tell Grandpa Crandall to send me Travis and Brooke's
Address cause the elders that room right next to us one of them knows
Travis really good because he went to Mt. Crest... he wants to write him
and send a picture of us so if you could do that that would be greatly
appreciated, everyone in gym calls me Sacajawea cause I just drain
threes from way out and they call me rain man and jimmer so its funny
there is not much competition in the MTC..... I thought there would be
more but oh well,
Some things to send,
My lebron jersey:)
send me a Jimmer jersey ha ha from the Chinese website.
Dr pepper would be so nice to have
oh also I really want you to send me a ukulele cause this kid that
rooms by us is poly and he said he will teach me how to play it if i
get one so that would be nice cause i want to learn ha ha....
Camera Memory card 8gb
Oh also there are about 4 native Hmong speakers here in the MTC one
rooms right by us and is in our zone so we try and talk Hmong to them
it doesn't work out very good ha ha they speak so fast and we don't
understand most things ha ha..I also found out a little bit about Hmong
culture there beliefs are shamanism so kinda weird they worship there
ancestors so that's crazy cause it talks allot about my ancestors in my
patriarchal blessing, they do like rituals and stuff.. Hmong is a
dialect of Chinese its spoken in the northern parts of Laos, Vietnam,
and Thailand so we have to take a trip to Laos when I get home that's
where my teacher said we could understand most of what they were saying
in Laos, cause in the other countries they mix it with Thai, and
Vietnamese, so idk but they also speak it in south east China its really
different though o idk if i would understand it, he said its really
close to Mandarin Chinese. I told him that I knew how to read Chinese
and so he helped me with some sounds in Hmong that where related to
Chinese so when I get home I will learn Chinese to so that me and Hunter
can start our own business with his business skills and my language
what more do you need so be ready Hunter cause we will be on Forbes
magazine some day haha ha.
Mom I will send those pictures back as soon as I have a chance to
write on them.. will you send me another memory card and I will just
send the one I have now home when its full:) everything is going great
family thank you for all your support and prayers I pray for all of my
family including my extended family every night so don't think I'm not
praying for you cause I am.. Trevor and Owen are amazing little boys
such sweet spirits I got cards from them and I hear they are praying for
me every night I cried when I heard that.. I love those boys so
much. Love all you guys have a great week talk to ya then.
Love,
Elder Crandall (Tub Txib Leej) Hmong name
anyway sinb tsib tua (goodbye)
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