Sick this week

2 November 2013

This week has been a week of sickness. Everyone has been getting sick and then when you get better, someone passes it back to you. We had a few days with half our district missing. I ended up going to the clinic and was just sent out to go buy some drugs. It was weird going off the MTC it was my first time leaving in about 7 weeks. I was sick at the beginning of the week, got better, and then last night caught it again. So lately I've just been pondering the question of how the body can store so much snot in a place so small as your nose.

The language is coming along awesome we mostly study how to teach in Japanese, so it's not super useful for real world talk. However I'm lucky and have studied Japanese for 6 years, I feel as though I can say most things now. Like "can I go to residence in order to take some medicine." except I still need to get better at thinking Japanese because I ended up saying "Can I take medicine in order to go to residence." Close enough though, right? They really encourage us to SYL (speak your language) here and that's probably the best thing to help improve the language.

Halloween was interesting. The MTC really didn't do anything besides offer caramel apples at dinner and lunch. But everyone from Utah (and thats a lot) got huge packages from family with cookies, and other assorments of goodies. I dressed up as my companion, so we switched name tags, ties, and watches. I also did my hair, which is weird because I can't remember the last time I put a comb through my hair.

On Wednesday we had a Skype lesson with people from Japan. We had a sister and her little girl, who was three. She was probably the cutest thing I've seen for awhile. She would keep popping up on screen to show us her toys. And then at the end when we were saying good bye she let out a "Bye bye missionaries do your best in Japan!" It was about the cutest thing ever. But it was really cool at the same time because when we practice here at the MTC we do lessons with our teachers or volunteers and it never came to mind that in real life we might have children in our lesson. And it completely changes the way you talk and present things because you want the child to understand too.

Well we have 16 days left at the MTC so you'll only get two more of these letters and then they will be filled with adventures in Japan. Hope everyone is having a nice week!

Love,

Elder Davies