This week we got two letters from Griffin so I condensed them into one. Here it is:
Hey this week was great. We had a devotional on Sunday and the guy speaking was a BYU football player who was named Cody Lewis, he jumped over someone in a game. My district is getting along pretty well, my companion, Elder Udall, is still the district leader and its really weird. Everybody else in our district are older, or have been to college, they're also from bigger cities, so its really intimidating to be in the class because we're both small guys who are younger than everyone else, but then it comes to learning the language we're coming along pretty well. My biggest fear right now would be becoming district leader when we switch out leadership, because our district has some some people in it that don't get along very much and I don't want to deal with that. I didn't take any pictures this week, there really isn't a lot of things to take pictures of. The first week or so of the language I was able to start reading in Mongolian, now I've gotten to the point where I'm starting to use simple sentences on a daily basis. Okay so past all the mushy stuff, in the next care package could you send me some pictures of home like; people, friends, places, family, the pothole, the lake, and lots of pictures of animals, not just our animals but also pictures of deer and other wild life; next send me either that wooden flute or another instrument that's small and instructions on how to play it and easy, simple songs too with it. It's nice to see you guys. How's everything been back home? What's Campbell up to? What's everybody up to? Love all you guys.
Oh yeah I forgot to tell you all of the funny things taht have happened in the MTC, so the first week we were here me and my companion both took showers after exercising and got locked out of our room (it was like our third day here), so we were stuck in only towels for an hour and a half, then someone had a birthday and the whole floor make a present made from old stuff, but someone had smuggled in a road flare (we couldn't find any candles) so we lit it when he walked into his room where we were hiding, he freaked but the flare was going for a bit, then exploded in the room, it was pretty awesome. So the other day me and my companion were giving a lesson and the girl we were giving it to, her name meaning "my light" but it sounds really similar to "will you marry me" in Mongolian, so I said her name (wrong) in the lesson, she just looked at me and was laughing, she said she already had a husband. Then the other day I was giving part of a lesson and I said "to seek for the gospel of Jesus Christ" but the words for seek and kill are literally only one letter off so what I actually said was "To kill for the gospel of Jesus Christ" he just laughed at what I said, a lot. Finally an Elder going to Vietnam broke his tailbone falling down the stairs, and now he sits on a pool floaty all the time. So he's in a lesson with his pool floaty and the investigator asks why he's sitting on it, well it turns out in Vietnamese brake and violate are very similar words, so the Elder meant to say "I broke my butt" but he actually said, "My butt was violated" and the investigator just laughed for their whole lesson.
Elder Griffin Hansen
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