Hello,
Its getting tough to write mtc emails already at week 3 cause everyday just goes into one in my memory. We have the routine and obviously learn new things and progress, but its all pretty similar.
My french has been improving and ive been learning lots of vocab still. I read the Book of Mormon in french everyday, but do it side by side with an english one, so im pretty much reading the book of Mormon twice. If you think old English is hard, try old English translated into old french. Its not even old french. We've continued teaching in french and also did an English fast and only spoke french for a day. We broke it a few times but tried.
For some reason I keep getting whole wheat bagels for breakfast thinking illl like it. We go in looking for the cheddar one, they dont have, and then I settle on whole wheat with cream cheese. I literally like neither of those things.
I also got kicked out of the gym kind of for wearing a bracelet ( burn bracelet I cant take off). I told her I couldn't take it off and her brilliant solution was to cut in. Wow! didn't think of that. Obviously im not cutting a bracelet ive had for a year for 10 more minutes of basketball, despite being wet. I just wear silver duck tape now which also isn't allowed, but whatever.
Im known in my district for my dancing too. We're not actually supposed to dance, but it brings all joy, so I figured its okay. Someone got mad at me for dancing though, he was most likely jealous. Probably. I do all the dance move Samantha taught me, to songs she taught me. You're welcome for the shout out Sam. Ive been teaching guys how to do some moves too. Student becomes the teacher. Ive been trying to convince the teachers to arrange an MTC dance.
We also took a 20 min sunday nap. I was fully dressed in my tie and all. I keep falling asleep literally everyone so it was needed. In class, choir, church, meals. Its been bad. I think i need more iron. Or sleep. I've been looking for iron.
Our french teacher gave a hype speech about fearing no man in the mission field and in life. How we shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes in the languages, to be bold, and to share what we believe to everyone.The opposite of faith is fear, so how to show faithfulness is be fearless. He gets me so excited to get to Tahiti and to continue learning.
Oh and I bumped into my cousin Abby! I was on the English fast thou and shes not cultured enough to know french, therefore we did not speak at all.
Good luck with everyone at university. Sucks to suck. You have homework ha,
Elder Fiore
1. Me and Abby (uncultured cousin)
2.. Selfie with moses mural
3. Temple Friday! With the district!
4. Me falling asleep (Iron levels)
5. Im holding Moroni and Elder Pugh holding the temple.
I love Fridays because first thing in the morning I get a message from Zach. Last week it was "Should I buy Shout or Spray n Wash" and this week it was "so what time FaceTime". No time for pleasantries, lol! We use the chat to go back and forth about logistics - in case we forget when we talk. The big discussion this time was his Visa. HIs passport and Visa had arrived and I was able to creatively create an authorization letter to be the one to pick it up. His friend Rachael is leaving for the MTC on Tuesday, so we arranged that she will take the passport to the MTC and give it to him. Next is trying to figure out how to return the temp passport and activate the new one. Options include flying to Vancouver or Calgary. He's not so keen to fly their on his own (no movies on the flight as he said!). Rob spoke to the Canadian consulate in Denver (closest one to Utah) to see if he could fly out there. A lovely lady said she would look into perhaps doing it by mail! That would be a miracle! Zach has a pact with himself that he will never buy food on his own throughout life (its a running joke around here) so that might be a challenge if he has to travel! lol.
Other little details - he made a list of things he needs and asked if Rachael could bring those too for him. So I'm busy preparing a little care package for him. Batteries, tape, gum, plus needs a new music set up as he's missing some key songs and I'm throwing in a tie that matches his black pants (as he said his ties don't match black, lol)
He sounded good - super tired, but good. Said he's enjoying himself, but his stomach struggles with the unhealthy food (just lots of fried food, heavy sauces, butters, cheese etc. It's like eating our every night!) He also sent a pic of his little room set up. He's on top bunk.
He loves his district - although it sounds like one guy is a little less than thrilled and patient with Zach's shenanigans. We chuckled about that because we know Zach is truly just being his slightly irreverent, edgy self. I guess it's hard for some to deal with! We are just used to him and it's truly one of our fave things about him!
We miss him, but it helps hearing him and reading his words and knowing that he is happy and where he wants and needs to be.
some Q&A's at our family blog Raising Flowers and Skids
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