Family!
Ok, so I have a lot to say and not a lot of time to type it, so I won't fill this email with a lot of colorful vocabulary and such.
Wednesday, I saw Sperry, Teresa, and Grandma Hope!!!! It was awesome. I was selected to be a host on monday. Elders are hosts, and then if it is a sister missionary, they are taken to a place where Sister missionaries are also hosts. I didn't see Jessica that day, but I was glad to know she was there safely. I forgot to ask if we are related to Moses Sperry. Are we? It was my first time hosting.
I got the cookies that Uncle Gary and Aunt Dorthy sent me, they were good, but they sent me too many, so my district likes them (aunt Dorthy and uncle Gary) too.
Next week, I will send home some stuff I won't need. For example, an English Preach My Gospel, my shoes and such (I am going to take a chance with those shoes . . . you will understand why later.) I will also send the tuperware back. It will have the letters I got here at the MTC in it along with my memory chip from my camera. I don't have many pictures, but some are better than none, I guess.
I saw Jessica on Thursday! we are meeting up on Tuesday instead of sunday because I forgot it was fast sunday.
Ok, so the MTC called Dad yesterday, and I about died when i heard his voice, it was so hard not to say anything. They asked me not to say anything, so I decided to be obedient and not say anything. My financial stuff that mom requested is in my hand written letter. The wart on the side of my thumb grew back. I wasn't worried about it, until I was playing basketball, and it split open and looked sort of cool (Megan would say gross, but the rest of us would be thinking it was cool), so I thought that I should just make sure that everything was ok, and they are sending me to a dermotologist on Monday. Since I had it before the MTC, they are using Aetna. (we believe in being honest)
About the gel in my hair. I would use it, and yes it is allowed, but I don't have a blow dryer. I might just have to get one in Portugal, I like the duck butt better than this.
I have gotten 1 haircut and will get one more next friday before leaving.
The phone call that mom is talking about is left up to the branch Presidency and is generally for telling parents the travel plans, but it is possible that I will be able to call to. If I do, i will know next week, and may have to call before my last P Day here, I will call mom's phone.
Dad, can you see if you can get on that scripture program of yours and get a bible dictionary for me in Portuguese. It would be really nice to have it during study. They gave us a very small thing that we can use that doesn't have near as many entries. If you can print that off for me and send it to me, that would be much appreciated, it would have to be soon if you can, so that I can get it in the USA, and you won't have to worry about international shipping.
I got my travel plans!! Apparently the phone call info comes in that, and ours don't say anything about the call. We leave on April 5 and arrive on April 6. we fly from Salt Lake to Denver to Frankfurt to Porto. I sent more specifics in my handwritten letter (flight numbers and such if you want to track the flights). I was told that I would have to stay in the MTC if my wart thing wasn't cleared up by the 5th, but they think it will be and I will only need 2 visits. (One to remove, and another a week later to follow up and make sure they got everything), but the MTC doctor doesn't see any problems with me leaving on the 5th. The reason I am going to chance the shoes is that I only get 1 carry-on that is a max of 18 pounds (not a lot by any means) and 1 personal item. They said a backpack counts as a carry-on and the personal item is like a scripture bag or shoulder bag. We have to check with the Travel office to see if my shoulder bag is a carry-on or personal item. If it is a carry-on, I will have to pack it in one of my bigger suitcases. The 2 carry ons can be 50 pounds. My problem is weight and space in my suitcase. We get 2 hours in Germany though!!, and it is a total of 19 hours of traveling strait. The Denver to Frankfurt flight is roughly 9 hours assuming we are right on the time zones.
Jessica and I are meeting on Tuesday, I hope to have pictures for you then, and I should get my care package stuff from her then. If you have any more questions, just send them on Dear elder and I will respond on Friday. I will also email you the results of my wart on Friday rather than writing a letter, you will get it faster. i wouldn't have authorization to write the letter until wednesday, and it would get in the mail on thursday.
Love,
Elder Hope
Eu sei que português é a lingua dos anjos!!!
(I know that Portugues is the language of the angels!!)
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