Ester the 85 yr. old phenom!

Another week! It's gone quick luckily! Thanks for all of the letters and packages! You are the best. I received the bun things on...Friday I think? And then the package with all of the fun stuff a few days after that! You are so great. The allergy meds are wonderful, thanks a lot. The memory cards are the bomb, the little card from dad about "My Calling" is neat too. I took the program from church in SLC that had that and it was neat to get a little laminated one. Dad-Thanks for the article on unity, it was a good one to read and there were lots of good insights. That's neat about Tyson going to Nova Scotia.

It will be good practice. The discussion on Saturday went great. It's crazy to put

your notes under the couch as you're teaching and just hope that it all works out.

Somehow, it all worked out and I was able to say everything I wanted to say and a

bit more.



The language is coming along really well. We are grouped with the Mongolian elders

and their language is nuts. It's hard for them to make sentences. I'm lucky to be

able to learn a language that is pretty reasonable. OHH!!! On Monday night, we went

to the RC and I hadn't really been able to get through to anybody. I called this 85 year old lady

from Indiana, we'll call her Ester for our purposes, anyways Ester had ordered a Book of Mormon.

I asked her if she'd received it and if she'd read it. She said she had but forgot to read it...funny

how that works haha. We started talking about it and she said "well...I don't think it's a bad book...

nobody has told me it's not true!". I'm thinking she was a little crazy haha. We talked about tons of

stuff haha. She asked how many wives I had so I talked to her about polygamy haha. I think she

just wanted someone to talk to and it was great to talk to a real person. I told her I had to go and

she said "One last thing!Do you Mormons believe in birth control?" Woah! Not expecting that from

Ester haha. I told her I was just a little boy and that I didn't know but as far as I knew, it wasn't

frowned upon unless you were like a 30 year old lady that was married and didn't want to deal with

kids. Haha it was kinda strange. I told her I had to go and she asked for my name. "Brett? That's

a nice name! Where's that from?!" ummm I dunno? A baseball player that played during the time

of me in my moms belly? Who knows haha. She asked where my family was originally from and she

was impressed with my good English name haha. I'm going to call her again on Monday so that will

be great! She is a funny old lady that just wants someone to talk to. I'm fine with being her bud. Tell

me about Jake! About his talk and all that jazz. Time here has gone fast though .You better send

me goodies and trinkets from Europe! It's the least you can do... 


I gotta go! Love you all!
  
Love, Elder B-rett!