MTC:  Week 8

Oh my gosh, less than two weeks left.

Hello! This was another good week.

I saw a few more people I know, which is always fun.  I've seen Elder Woodward around a couple times (picture in folder :) ), talked with Elder Bradley Matheson briefly, and met Elder Church from school, who's going to Korea.

We're totally the old district now. It seems like just the other day that we were the new guys, but all our friends we got here before us are leaving.  The Koreans left last week, and our good Ukrainian friends left this week (pictures of both groups in the shared folder. The one eating chips and guac is with the Ukrainians.)  

Yesterday Dale G Renlund came and spoke at the devotional, which was really cool. I think we've seen like 5 apostles total now? It was a great talk, I learned so much about using personal and companionship study time to focus on those I teach.  When I learn new things, I add to my "arsenal" of teaching material, and the holy ghost brings things to my remembrance and testifies of truth while I teach.

This week we had our first real non-member TRC.  It was English speaking of course, which felt really different that teaching in Armenian. You'd think it would be easier since I'm fluent in English, but it felt scarier because I'm expected to come up with answers and responses basically immediately, and there's no downtime in the conversation. Whereas with Armenian I have to talk slow, giving me time to think while I speak. Anyway, it was a good experience.  I'm glad we taught in English at least a little bit since I'll be teaching in English fairly often in the field.

Speaking of the field, one of my teachers said he got an email from the Armenian Elders in Arcadia for me to read!  We didn't have time, but hopefully I'll get to read it tonight in class. I'm so excited.

Mom, I'm sorry, I think a few weeks ago you asked me about the pictures of the Elders doing that "floating" trick and I totally forgot to mention that.  They did it by sitting on the ironing board that sticks out from the wall.  If you get it from the right angle, you can't see the board at all. Pretty cool. 

Also, is there any way you could send me some new exercise shoes?  The soles of mine are ripping apart and becoming unusable pretty quick.  I'm pretty shocked they're so beat up already, I only wear them for an hour a day!  Anyway, I don't really care what kind of shoes, just a size 10. Thank you so much

I love you all and miss you a lot!

Elder Clayton