phillip.larsen@myldsmail.net
Date: Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Subject: Email!!!
Bom dia minha Familia!
I only have 30 minutes on the computer but I have been waiting to wrte/email for so long!
Where to start. The MTC is great, although it is a bit of an adjustment. My companion is Elder Smith, and our district is great. The food here is good, I don't know if I'm gaining any weight. This is quite the place! We are the biggest Zone/branch at the MTC. I forget which, but they are usually 25 elders/sisters big but ours this upcoming wednesday will be over 100! Otimo!
We have already started learning the language and it is going well, I can tell that the Espirito Santo is helping us learn Portuguese. I don't know how to do the accent marks so you'll have to excuse my misspelling.
The first day here I felt a little distanced from people, didn't know anyone. 9 out of 11 of the elders we have here are from Utah so they are seeing all their friends here but I don't know anyone here from our stake. I did see Jordan Hopkins though, who visited us from Georgia. He is going to Oregon. Lots of Brazilian Elders are waiting for their Visas, 6 came a few days ago to Elders in our zone so there is hope.
The classes are great and I like my teachers Irmau Taylor e Irmau Call. (Brother Taylor and Brother Call) I also met a teacher here that went to Teresina on his mission. I also met 2 other Elders Larsen, although one was spelled Larson.
This is an unusual week, my normal P-day will be Friday but since I was not here a whole week we had a half p-day today. Oh a joke I heard from one of the elders in my district:
"Why do Elders always have their legs crossed?
Because they only have one P-Day! :D"
So there is so much to say and so little time to say it. We've soaked up a lot of information in these past 3 and 1/2 days. I'm a little overwhelmed by the amount of work we are doing. I know it is only a few days in but I don't feel quite like the Elders seemed to be from our ward.
We got portuguese scriptures and a lot of portuguese materials when we first arrived here too. Argh I am still getting used to this schedule! Have the trees started to change yet in NH? Being at the Provo MTC has been a blessing and it has also been sad to some degree because I see all these other missionaries from Asia. I am excited to go to Brazil though! I might get reassigned though like Ricky if my visa doesn't come but it looks like they might come soon.
One thing that I noticed was that a few weeks after we sent in my papers I remember dreaming about learning a language and I thought it was Italian. Portuguese sounds a lot like Italian and I think I might have been dreaming about that. It is great here, still adjusting but I am excited.
I'm sorry if I didn't talk enough and if this sounded very rushed, we only get 30 minutes to use our emails and there has been a lot that happened in the past week.
I miss you all very much and hope to hear from you soon and a lot :)
Love your Elder,
Phillip Larsen
Phillip at the Machester, New Hampshire, airport just before leaving for Utah.
Phillip with his Papa and Oma Acomb in Murray, Utah, the day before entering the MTC.
Phillip dropped off at the curb at the MTC waving goodbye!
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