Elder Myers Sept 22, 2009

Hey everyone!
I am going to try to make this email less chaotic haha

Business items:
one of my favorite scriptures:
-Moses 1:36-39
-how long does it take for my letters to get there? also please date your dear elders...
-pics: i know you said you were sending me a book.. but could i have some to put on my wall/bulliten board thing...
-are the pants from missionary mall supposed to be black? i thought we ordered one navy of the silky material and one grey of the regular wool. I have recieved a grey wool one and a black silky one...
-MOM: the scripture from the initiatory is Exodus 40:12-13 (i went to the temple today and we did sealings (as children) and initiatorys. Very cool! and the scripture was on a card on the wall...)
-did you pay my tithing (i forget if you ans that)

stuff to tell you:
for the benifit of everyone (but especially ben and sarah because they have asked me) here is my day to day events: everyday besides tuesday and sunday is pretty much the same with study in the morning then breakfast then gym (basically work out, soccer outside, basketball or volleyball- i usually play volleyball) then class with this really funny guy (he is exactly like me except 24 and a little taller and he likes to watch football haha) who is at BYU and went to mexico city. then lunch, then study with companion- scripture and language, then dinner (food is ok avg cafeteria food which im not used to :( then class again with a more organized mature guy who is married and at BYU... went to madrid on his mission. then read letters/write in journal/hang with the other elders then sleep! the bed is a twin and not at all like my throne of a bed at home haha... sunday is mostly church,study, devotional (with everyone at the MTC) choir if i decide to go to it, and a (church) movie!!

i tallked with ian at the devotional/movie on sunday for like 30 mins before it started. he happened to sit in front of me... haha

here are the names of the people in my district:
my companion elder riska from NC and going to LA
elder whitney (DL and guy from cafe rio) going to monteray mexico
elder weir, linden utah, LA, currently has a broken foot from v ball
elder orem from portland OR going toDC
hermana hogawoning from san diego going to oklahoma city

the following are leaving in a week and a half to go to the puru MTC (various missions in peru)
elder bies, san diego lives in utah i think, arikipa (sp) peru
elder boulter (2 of them-twins), orem utah, one loves sports, one didnt play but both are obsessed with BYU football
elder seryul (sp) from idaho, has a farm with 500 cows,he is hilarious

devotional with elder holland last tuesday was amazing! no time to describe it but it was very motivational, told us to not have any regrets when we come home from our missions...

spiritual expierence that i had in the referal center (RC)- place where you make calls, usually about people requesting church DVDs/bibles/BoMs anyway saturaday i prayed to be lead to someone who would listen to me (all the other times i went i had gotten calls requesting life insurance etc) anyway i talked with her for an hour on saturday and 2.5 hours sunday and 1.5 hours monday. she is an extreme born again christian, from MO, and is totally accepting of the gospel except priesthood authority (she has been basptized 7 times by immersion and doesnt recognize the need for priesthood auth and also she doesnt get the concept of the gift of the holy ghost or the fact that if you sin the HG leaves...- she says shse doesnt think that the HG is schizofrenic (sp) and comes in and out of you...) my companion and i talked with her yesterday like i said and we challenged her to read a few scriptures and to recieve a priesthood blessing from the missionaries when they came (if she consented-she said she had to pray about that and the blessing bvefore hand) we are checking in with her on thursday so ill tell you how that goes.

another spirtual exp really quick: i gave my first priesthood blessing to elder weir (broken foot) before he went to the BYU hospital to get a cast.. that was so cooL! i didnt anoint or seal the oil since that had already been done...

loved to hear about the stake president switch! cal monson as 1st counselor! nice agree with mom saying about james finsihing up with dad and me

thats all i have time for but how are you all? how is school? especially emma... how is jack? how is swim season?

LOVE YOU SO MUCH! dont worry about me please (mom)
ans via dear elder

love
will

Elder Myers Sept 15, 2009

OK so i only have 26 min 30 sec to write to you because i had to set up an account... first off i am doing fine! I got your food package, camera package and clothes from missionary mall. my mailbox number is 181 NOT 328 i have been getting letters but i think you should probably have the right one also put elder mark william myers. OK so the reason why i have a new mailbox number- on Friday an elder and i got moved to a new district,zone and building! it was kinda scary at first but i got moved into intermediate spanish from beginning... i got tested by this secretary person (she just had a convo with me... in spanish) and they didnt really tell me what would happen if i moved (i didnt think that i would be in a new district) anyway- i dont know if you got my letter that i sent to you on the first day... i just got your dear elder note today (Tuesday 9/15) and it didnt sound like you did... but my p day is tuesday now so that is when i will be emailing you... my new companion (from my old district is OK he is nice but a HUGE molly mormon (except for elders) he is from NC and what i gather not a huge town.... we havent fought or anything don't worry we get a long) the new district is really funny and nice but 4-6 people, i forget are leaving to go to the purivian (sp) MTC in three weeks. the elder we met in cafe rio is in my new district- he actually is the district leader. the teachers are awesome! hermano vance is young 24ish and unmarried at BYU went to cuidad de mexico for his mission and is going to be a dentist. He reminds me of myself a lot., he loves Q&A sesion that we have at the beginning of each lesson. we talk about everything including some deep doctrine! i have a lot of questions as you can guess... the other is married went to madrid Spain (has a lisp when he says Cs... haha) is in his final year at BYU and is more organized stereotypical teacher but is nice none the less... a Yesterday a sister and an elder moved into the district and another elder moved back down to his other beginning spanish district because he felt that that district was the right district for him. 

Sorry this is so disorganized but i am trying to say a lot in a little amount of time. ( i dont really know how long 30 mins is for writing an email) but some business things as mom said in the dear elder- i am fine dont worry about me! i am figuring everything out. that being said i still have some business that i cant take care of here (you can buy just about anything here at really cheap missionary prices so all i need is money... they have an ATM... i am going to buy a camera case here and a bike backpack thing. They give us 6 bucks a week that adds up so if you send me food in those care packages things then i could save up for those things. the backpack is like 30 bucks. also i thought that my perscription changed for my contacts...? that i recieved.... also i want pictures! please! when i take enough pictures i will send you the card. but it wont fill up for a while and we can print pictures here i think but i know you will want pics from me... but enough business because i only have 9 mins left...

i love you all! and i miss you! i hope you got my other letter! tell me if you didnt. use the dear elder site! tell others about it and how to work it because i have no idea really what it is... but ill send letters to friends today becasue we have time to write letters that isnt limited to 30 mins... by the way i went to the temple today! it so so big on the inside! haha it was a nice expierence we just did an endowments session... i love P days and sundays! they are nice breaks from our ridiculous schedules, but they are still busy... we got to watch the church movie testaments after our MTC wide fireside on sunday. i almost forgot to tell you! i joined the choir on sunday. its huge and everyone in my district did so i thought i might as well. it didnt go horribly! haha my companion is a very high tenor (but his voice is normal, kinda odd) and the other elder who sat next to me is a very deep bass so it was hard but its all good. there is a chance that they will pick the MTC choir for general conference!!!! so i might be able to go to that (the real reason i joined the choir... haha) i miss everyone back at home and ill try to send everyone letters if i can.. you can forward this as i know you will even though it is chalk full of typos etc because i am typing at the speed of light... next letter i hope i can be less busnessy and imparrt some sage wisdom as dad would say... also tentaviley the thing i miss the most from home besides poeple is my toilet ahhaha the bathrooms arent bad or anything but yeah.... anyway i have to go pretty much there is a timer that couints down and right now it is flashing that i ahve two minutes left give everyone my love! also can you pay my tithing for me? dont worry about me mom! i am taking my vitamens and so i wont get sick! haha btw an elder is alergic to wheat in my group LOVE YOU! no more time