Family:
I saw Jessica!! She is the only sister missionary I don't call Sister, because it is wierd . . . so I try and call her Irmã but sometimes I call her Jessica or Jess on accident. This is my last email of the MTC!!! I leave on Tuesday! Ok, so a few things you will want to know. I am sending home a package of stuff I don't need or won't need. Unfortunately, I didn't want to get rid of some of the things, but I had to. Sorry I am sending some candy back for Megan, Mom, and MY GRETA!!!
I am responding in response to my wart removal that everyone is intersted about (at least in our family) First, the lady numbed my finger (the whole thing), and then she pulled out a scalpel and cut off 2 of the 3 warts on my thumb. She cotorized it and then froze how she said "the virus out of the thing" it was ok, because I couldn't feel it until the lidocaine wore off. She cotorized it again and then sent me on my way.(I think she said Lidocaine). Today, my finger is black, scabby and gross. Puss (which some people in my district think is plateletts and it very easily could be) mixed with blood is still coming out of the wound. I have another appointment with her on Monday where she said she would give me some drugs to try and prevent the wart from coming back. She said warts like the one on my thumb are stubborn and said it looked like it had been removed once before because the part at the top of my thumb wasn't fully back . . . whatever that means. So on monday I will get the info.
I should be able to call my family before leaving the MTC. I find out on Monday if I do and we will either call monday night or tuesday morning before 1 pm. We don't get to chose the time we call on Monday night it could be as late as 11:30 pm your time (10:30 my time). We only get 5 minutes and we have to pay for the time, but I think it is worth it. I will call mom's cell phone and hope she answers if not, I will default to dads. . . not that I don't like dad, but I think he would perfer for me to call mom too, and I have already gotten to hear dad's voice it will be nice to hear mom's voice too. (I really hope I am not digging myself into a hole here) Please take the last paragraph as I intended it, not the way it sounds.
Ok, so on Wednesday I got to escort again and I escorted a guy from Lisbon! He was very fluent in English, but he could understand me. He said all the new missionaries sound like I do, but then improve a lot faster in Portugal . . . if they speak Portuguese (that is the plan). Apparently most people in Portugal are Fluent in English too because they have to take english in school for 5 years. I plan on speaking Portuguese. He said the People of Portugal will respect me more if I try and speak portuguese and help them with their english. He said that everyone (he was included) had a hard time pronouncing the "th" in English, because they don't have that sound in Portuguese. Americans have a hard time with the "lhe" because we don't have that sound in english. It sort of sounds like the mil-LI-on, in the word million, but it isn't. it is a wierd sound, that our teachers have said good luck on, and they will help you. The guy said "the" like "Te", our teachers taught us how to teach them the "th" and they will teach us the "lhe" or "lh" just depending on the word.
Well my time is almost up. These are the quickest 30 minutes of my week. I sent dad the bulleten from Portugal. I didn't get to really read it, but that's ok I will.
Thank you for your support, love, and prayers,
The next sacrament meeting I have will be in Portugal and next email!!! (general conference)
There is a special on the MTC in conference between sessions on Saturday or Sunday, I don't know what day . . . I might be in it because I was there when they were filming it!
Love
Elder Hope
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