The hermanas that were in our zone left this past Monday for Mexico! It
was cool to have them in our zone, and we got 6 new missionaries this
week! 4 hermanas, 2 elders. One of them is 6'7"! I'm not the tallest
person in our zone anymore! They all seem like nice people, and I'm
sure they are. I also got to see Tevin yesterday! He was one of my
roommates in school, and I knew he was coming in, and I saw him in the
Cafeteria, and went over and talked with him for a bit. It was good to
see another person I knew.
Okay, so in this email I have 5 pictures included, I will send
another email with just pictures because I can only get 5 to fit. There
are some pictures of me at the temple, and one of my companion. Oh and
by the way, he speaks 5 languages now, swahili, kerundi, french,
English, and Spanish. In the next email I will send some pictures of us
at the big map. I'll try to remember to get lots more pictures with
the rest of my district today.
Spanish is coming along pretty good so far. We did this thing on
Monday, where we meet some volunteer members who let the missionaries
teach them a lesson in Spanish, and it was pretty cool and fun. Our
teachers also pretend to be investigators during the first hour of each
class, and 2 companionships are assigned to teach them. I think those
are coming along well. We can understand the questions that they have
for the most part, but the hard part is responding in Spanish.
I realized I might need a couple things in the package you send me.
I could use some more socks for gym time or P day, some of my socks
disappeared, and they might be in my room but I don't think so. I could
also use some eye drops, I don't know what it is out here, but my eyes
get itchy a lot. Also, send lots of pictures of back home. Some of the
elders in my district got pictures of them, and their families and
should them to us, maybe you could send some to me like that.
Thanks for all of the letters, keep writing lots! That's great
that other people want to know more about the church because they hear
that I'm serving a mission! Tell lots of people to write me! Getting
letters is the best. My time is almost up, so goodbye! Happy Birthday
Olivia!! don't have too much fun without me! Good luck with school, its
almost summer! I'll email again next week!
Love- Elder Austin Carey
Elder Carey and his companion at the Provo Temple |
Elder Carey and his companion at the MTC |