July 31, 2013

While we were at the Rodeo on the 24th of July Dixie got nervous and tore our closet apart.

Poor Brycie!  No Pie!!

So first off I hope you are all doing just great. Hearing from all two of you has been fun;) loved the last package(which i will tell you about in a second) but the pictures of Dixie were HILARIOUS!!!! I miss her so much. so anyway. i will tell you my funny story. So after lunch and dinner everyday we check the mail. at lunch i didnt get anything so i figured i would at least have your package that night. so we were all waiting for the District Leader to come back and pass out the mail when he handed me this paper from the travel office. I had seen em before and it was just a check out sheet. But no one else had gotten one and i didnt know what that meant. so we all got super excited and everyone was like oh VISA!!! or youre getting sent out early, just stuff like that. and then i got my package slip. and when i get a package from you guys everyone gets excited cause it means food:) so i ran back, picked up the package, gave it to Elder Atwood for a second, and ran into the travel office to ask what the slip was     about. so i walked up to the desk and just asked what it was, hoping to get some big balloon shower and confetti saying i was being sent out and needed to clean out my room. well all the guy said was, oh thats nothing, just something we send out before you go. and instantly all happiness was gone hahaha it was funny the way he said it. like that must happen everyday. but i still had the package and it was massive and said this side up and keep the towel. (we speak Package) haha so we knew there was food or something delicious. we booked it back to the room and cut it open. and oh my gosh. there sitting right on top of the towel... was a freaking note saying they had STOLEN MY PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha i was so unbelievably mad/sad. haha it was a sad day all around but really funny. everytime i cant find something now they all say, oh is it with your pie? just a bunch of pie jokes. haha

The MTC has rules, you know!

    So i have been Packing on the LB's ive gained like ten pounds since i have been in here... and i love it. my goal is to gain like another six before i head out. i eat so much every meal. unless everything looks awful. which happens more than i would like. 

    We just sent off a new district monday morning, and the saturday before we decided to see if we(as an entire zone) could empty one of the columns of cereal. so we got to lunch, i got a wrap, some chicken strips and like two bowls of cereal, and we all started eating. well this guy came up and got all mad at us saying that we werent allowed to compete and that we were breaking everyone of the ten commandments.... ok not really he just made it seem like a way bigger deal than it was. anyway our old district leader, who only will speak spanish no matter what, started talking to him, and thank heaven that guy spoke spanish other wise that woulda been bad. but we kept trying to explain that we werent competing with each other we just wanted to empty column. that speed had nothing to do with it and no one was fighting over anything. well he took that to mean that we were totally competing and that this would lead to gang violence or something cause he got way mad and walked off. so we watched him and he started making phone calls and pulled out his white bible and got on the radio. and i just started laughing. it was so funny. but a couple minutes later this worker came out carrying a huge box and slammed in on the counter, and we were like five feet behind him, and started filling up the column. it was just funny, dont ya hate it when you have to do your job. ;)

  I look normal now but i forgot to tell you about the hair cut. so before landon left we scheduled our haircuts so we could see each other, even though i only said hey man whats up. but i walked in and this girl asked me what i wanted and we talked for a sec. well then she put the guard on the clippers, which was rubber, which sucked but also thank heavens it was, and she started trying to scalp me!!!!!! the grabbed the top of my head and dug the hairs out i swear! brad just goes up and follows how your dome is shaped, well this girl tried to train my head to be shaped how she thought it should be!!! i was just waiting for the blood to flow, like not even kidding my head was sore when i walked out. 

   Our teacher is super cool. he is just really inspiring and we had a coaching session where you just have a little interview. and he said something that his Teacher said to him. and i am going to assume it came true. but he looked at me and said, " Elder Whitaker, you are going to baptize a lot of people." he told me that when i am ABLE to speak(my comp gets carried away and i end up just sitting there for a while) but that i am easy to relate to and very personable. but the biggest thing i got out of it is that i got to be a leader for our class. he says when i focus and share every one else does the same. but if i get off topic and loud they will follow right along. so thats my goal now. i am going to be the missionary that people can look up to and follow. we had a talk last night that said. we dont know the influence we carry. and we are going to leave a legacy. just up to us on what that will be. 

   Another thing i though of yesterday was this old crossing guard and this elder were talking. and the old guy asked where the elder was from, cause he was latino and had an accent and he said he was from lets say columbia or something, i didnt catch it. and The crossing guard said oh my Grandson just left there or is there. once again i was farther away. but then i thought this. What if that elder had asked who his grandson was and the Crossing guard had said oh, elder (Taylor) or whoever. and That elder that was standing there said, "Oh, well youre grandson is the one the baptized me and he is the reason i am here." like when i thought that it seriously blew my mind. i just thought that was really cool. we dont know what we can do or what one baptism can change. 

   Last thing. Can you see if you can email songs to me so i can just put em right on my iPod without going into Itunes. Have Scott work on that. or should i just mail it home and you can load more and then mail it to me. anyway. whatever you decide, dear elder it to me and i will mail a letter back or send it home. Deal?

Thanks for the letters and pictures. its always fun to see you guys and hear whats going on.

Love you all

Elder Whitaker