HELLLLLLLLLOOOOOO EVERYBODY!!!!!!!
I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!! i miss you all! thanks for all your emails and stuff. it really warms my jimmies to hear from you all. thank you for your prayers! i can feel them all the time! keep praying for me to learn how to speak thru my nose, cambodians are so talented!!!
i killed my first full week at the mtc and it was all i ever hoped and dreamed of! so much fun! much cambodian! wow! we talk about Jesus all day every day and i love it! i think my stick-it-to-the-man-eosis is finally in remission. one of our branch presidency members kinda chewed us all out in our district meeting and i only said 3 rude comments about the size of his ears in my head!!!! your prayers are softening my heart! but forreal tho i think i'm turning into a missionary or something, no matter how hard i'm fighting it. its kinda cool, but i kinda miss my hiphop jams and my rock and roll lifestyle yaknow!?
AND NOW ITS TIME FOR A RAPID FIRE Q&A SESSION COURTESY OF MY NOSY MOM!!!!!! (bare with me if you don't care at all)
Q1. can i check my email daily???
A. YES!!! we have computers in every classroom!
Q2. is that against the rules except for on P-day???
A. YES!! wow you ask such good questions mom!!!
Q3. can i write email everyday??
A. (see questions 1 and 2)
Q4. can you print emails???
A. YES!!! i print them out in the morning and then read them and then reply in the afternoon and then i tape the good ones to my wall. so for nobody has written one worthy of my wall except colby johnson and myself.
Q5. please explain dear elder to a 60 year old
A. not going to happen
A. jk, you just make an account and then its same day delivery to the mtc and whoever gets the most that day gets crowned champion of the dinner table. so far Sister Sheffield is the 6 day reigning champion and its killing me......
Q6. can you write a hand written letter???
A. yes but only in cambodian script.
Q7. do you eat food?
A. Yes i eat food. lots of food. 3 times a day.
Q8. do you want some crocs??!?!?!?!
A. YES MY LIFE WOULD BE COMPLETE! SEND ME SOME CROCS!
Q9. exercise???
A. correct! 1 hour a day! i'm the knockout champion. jk i suck so bad
Q10. do you ever rest??
A. never!!!!
Q11. temple??
A. YA! every pday! its so cool!
AND THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE FOR THIS SEGMENT FOLKS!! THIS Q&A HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY: SARAH MCLACHLAN AND HER DYING DOGS!!! THANKS SARAH!!
anyway.... life is good here. my companions are literally the best! they're so funny and we laugh so hard every second of every day. i love them, were going to be bffls. They talk about lord of the rings every day, but other than that I love them forreal. i'm kinda jealous of elder maurer tho because he has frosted hair and the swaggiest suit ever. elder lambert is like our father figure. me and maurer are his little whippersnappers running around and climbing on his back. he makes the best dad jokes too. lol. to my real dad: step it up! elder lambert just grounded me for saying all that...lol
we got a new teacher this week! he was pretending to be our investigator last week but it turns out he was actually our teacher tho whole time!!! wow what a surprise!! (its not like he was my cambodian tutor for 2 months at byu!!!) hes awesome! so energetic and it makes everything awesome. when we were teaching him in cambodian we actually got him to commit to baptism so that was pretty cool! we're getting pretty good. we can almost teach the first lesson already!!! so crazy!
LIST OF THINGS FOR MY MOM TO SEND ME VIA AMAZON PRIME!!!!:
3 POCKET PROTECTORS
1 BOTTLE GEL SUPERGLUE (don't ask)
1 THING OF CINNAMON ROLLS (my companions and i are having a competition of who's mom makes the best cinnamon rolls. make me proud mom(read: buy them from costco))
i'm really trying hard to make the most out of this super cool experience!
okay i think that's all i have to say this week!!!!!!! love you all!!! write me!
SPIRITUAL SHPEEL: i love this church. i love this gospel. we had a discussion in class about the difference between church doctrine and church policy. i really love every bit of church doctrine. i know sometimes church policy can rustle some peoples' jimmies and mine too on some occasions. i think it just takes a lot of faith to look past those things and accept the gospel for what it really is, which is a message of happiness. i'm excited to share that with people because i know its true and i know it can bless every single person that allows it to. amen.
love, elder sam
