How is everybody doing? So dad you should probably stop hurting yourself.. its a good way to avert death AND death related symptoms.
So first things first, Word of the Week is "Sinspiration." I think you can figure out what that means. It was given to us during a fireside and the speaker hadnt planned on saying it but did, and then laughed at his own joke. Lulz. Scripture of the week is found in 2 Kings 2:23-24. Just read it, and remember to never make fun of prophets :)
K so thanks so much for the package.. i now have enough food to feed a couple of lifetimes. JK. But really, that was a lot of stuff. Good joke josh with the paper towel.. probably should have seen that coming. I appreciate the iPod but uhhh... dont want to sound ungrateful but someone missed the mark on what i selected haha. I was lookin through it and its all good but was just wondering where all the OTHER stuff went. Cool. So this sunday we are giving a District lesson on revelation so i figured, hey... send me farewell talk no? While you are at it, if we still have my talk from BYU that was on the fridge send that one too.. i want to see my thoughts again from each of these cause both have come up this week.
So this week was kinda crazy. Hess and I did successfully do the week of Thai. Of course we still spoke english, but we did a lot better than we thought we would. On top of that, we had our first TRC that was all in thai. The results? Not bad. It was difficult ESPECIALLY cause the volunteer we got spoke Eastern Thai, which is basically Laotian. Pretty much thai has a ton of "r's" and in laotion every R is replaced with an L. So certain things just werent clicking for us. But we did well anyway. Our lesson kinda got off track cause i was talking about the many different religions out there and why ours is different... the word for religion is "sadsanaa." The word for prophet is "sadsaDAA." So i was talking about religions and then she thought i said sadsadaa and then asked about those.. so i had to basically stop dead about religions and throw in an explanation of prophets. Basically we ended up just confusing here. Awesome. But for a first lesson it wasnt bad. This week we also learned SO MUCH grammar. Seriously.. we have a grammar game at the end of every week before the TRC and usually we have like a jeopardy set up with 5 rows and 5 columns. This week our game was 11 by 5! Took 2 days to do. Its all coming along nicely. My brain wants to explode every now and then, but whatever.
So big news as of last night.. 1 is that Freddie is already gone. Sad face. But before he left the 4 of us (Roach Dallas and Freddie) gathered together to open up Cody's Dear Elder with his MISSION CALL! Any last guesses if you dont already know? Romania Bucharest Mission! How insane is that? Only problem is that he enters exactly 1 week after i leave. Bummer. Either way, congratulate him on my facebook or something. Im sure you already have Josh. Speaking of Josh, he said that Inception was pretty amazing? That so? Did you see it with him Mom and Dad? Just one more awesome movie that will join the marathon when i get back.
Hmm.. trying to think of anything else.. oh! The temple opened up today so we are going for the first time since being here. We get nccngthays tommorrow afternoon. Thailand has amazing fruit! Brother Saakha went through everything with us and there are so many, some ive never even heard of. And on the street they are about 5 baad (baht) which is like nothing for us. Maybe a nickel, i dunno. Oh i almost forgot.. i was super excited for the SD card, but i dont know what you took it on cause they are only pictures on my camera. Ima send a different one back with some new pics for you and maybe try again? If you put them on the computer try draggin them over to it maybe? I dunno, but try again cause they looked funny.. especially the one with you mom and the hula hoop. Ugh.. i feel like im forgetting something again. Hope not.. if not ill remember soon and write another letter, but this week just expect the SD card with a little bit of writing.. since we go to the temple we have a lot less time to write letters. We'll see. Either way you will be in Utah right? Exciting! Make sure Aaron and the Powells know how much i wanted to be there! K well i gotta log off.. Hope you enjoyed the previous letter with my little doodle of notes. Meant a lot to me and that kind of stuff happens frequently. Ok seriously im getting off now :) Love you!
Elder Gudmundsen
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