MADE IT SAFELY

July 14, 2010

Dear Mother and Family,

I'll try and get in as much as I can, but I'm only given a half hour. That seems sooo short to me to be able to read emails and then write back, so I think what I'm going to do is print out the emails and respond to them the next week. My P day is on Wednesday(obviously), so you'll need to write tuesday night if you really love me.

My plane took a while to get going from Detroit because we were waiting for the staff to get to the airplane, and it took them forever. We took off like 40 to 60 minutes late, but only got there a half hour late. When I arrived in Atlanta I just made my way to the place(terminal??) where I needed to catch the next flight. As I got closer to the correct gate I started running into missionaries- woohooo- and by the time I got to the gate there were tons of them. Overall there were I think 25 missionaries on the flight. Most came from a Salt Lake flight, but there were some others. At the MTC there are 30 of us. 2 Sisters(from Ohio and Hawaii), 3 Europeans(1 Scot, Brit, and Sweed), then I don't know what the count is for Utah(a lot of them) but there is a fellow Pennsylvanian, 1 from Tennessee, Arizona, Washington and a couple Idahoans). So that's the make of the missionaries here for ya.

Jet lag was rough for the first couple of days, but after that I think we're all just tired because of the strenuous schedule of a missionary. You don't seem to have many breaks and you seen to have to keep going and learning and learning and going and then you lay down and sleep and do it all over again the next day. It's rough, but I'll be getting used to the tired feeling and still being efficient.

We got companions the first night. My comp is from American Fork, Utah. His name is Elder Aubrey. He's a very nice kid and is pretty similar to me. We seem to work pretty well together and we are very willing to do whatever you need for the other one. It's very nice that we're both very concious of the other one and don't just think about ourselves. We are just trying to learn how to use our companion study better so that we can learn more and improve.

I've been learning so much since being here. I can see why they equate a mission to 50 years of being in the church. You learn so much so quickly. We study the Lessons on our own and in companionships and then our classes consist of teaching us how to be better teachers. They have told us that there are 2 parts to a missionary, skills and knowledge, so they are helping us with our skills, but our knowledge has to be improved and worked on by us and in companionships. I don't have much more time so I'll try to fit in stuff to the best of my ability.

One thing that has been an annoyance, well not really, to me is that no one here can really sing......... and everyone has to participate in the MTC choir. I just keep trying and just tell myself that they are singing with their heart. I am singing tonight, woohoo. Well I better go- my time is up.

I love you guys tons! I am starting to love this work. Mom, put my email address on facebook.

Love,

Elder Hulet