Here is Tom's third e-mail home. The same day we received this, we also received an e-mail from Mr. Cheney's saying Tom had picked up his package and they sent us pictures of him and his companion, Elder Fox! This really, really made my day to see my sweet, smiling son! And to know he finally got something we sent. Sounds like he has plenty to eat, though and doesn't want me to send any more. I e-mailed him back and told him to share with everyone! It is just like Joan told me... your whole week revolves around hearing from your son and I start counting down the days to the next e-mail as soon as we get one! I think the oregano he is talking about might be oregano oil... I read on-line that it is used for a lot of medicinal purposes, but should always be very diluted with olive oil or another oil because of it's potency and it can be very hot. Sounds like they had some fun with it, anyway.... boys!
Feliz Ano Novo, Everybody!
Thanks
for the snacks mom! but I don’t think you need to send any more because
the food here is just fine and there is plenty of it, and I don’t know
what I will do with it all, especially
the big box of cereal, since I have just over a month left in the MTC
and my suitcase can’t weigh more than 44 lbs when I fly to Belem. I am
going to try to eat it all before I leave but I might just share it with
my roommates. About the roommate, Elder Taylor,
with the small tree, it was only about a foot tall and because he is
going to Curitiba, and not Belem he doesn’t have anywhere near as strict
a weight limit on his bags and he was also able to bring three
suitcases with him, so he is nowhere near as restricted
as those of us going to Belem which is 7 out of 11 of us in the
district.
But
this week has been pretty crazy. My district decided that everyone
needed to try a drop of oregano, so I did and holy smokes that was
painful, and I only had one drop! I was choking and
even had a couple tears drop, it was that bad. A couple weeks ago my
companion tried 4 drops, and the other day an elder in my district
decided he wanted to beat his record, so he tried 5 and was actually
crying and said that he couldn’t breathe because it
hurt too much. Well my companion would not stand for that so he took 6
drops of oregano so he could keep the record and he ended up puking...
luckily he made it to the bathroom in time though.
So
I have been using my camera a little and have taken a few pictures, but
I will try to get more by next week and send them to you. Missionaries
are not supposed to take cameras with them
outside of the MTC but I might be able to sneak a pic of me in front of
the temple next week. We do have a view outside our window but we can
only see the opposite side of the MTC, but the window out the hallway
has a nice view of the city, which I did take
some pictures of and I will send next week. New Years Eve was awesome
because you could see fireworks all over the city and by the time they
were done you could only see like a mile out of the window because there
was so much smoke, but I did not get any good
pictures of the fireworks. I tried taking a video for like 15 seconds
but you can’t really see any fireworks in it. We sleep on the top floor
of the building so we have a nice view, but they don’t let us use
elevators so we have to walk up 7 stories of stairs
multiple times a day, which is okay because it is nice preparation for
the walking we will be doing in Belem. But I will definitely have
pictures for you soon. Though, we can’t send them through email so it
may take a few weeks for them to get to you.
About
laundry, there is washing and drying machines here which weren’t too
hard to figure out but one of my instructors, Irm(brother) Mauro, is
from Belem and said that washing and drying machines
aren’t common so I am probably going to have to figure out how to hand
wash my clothes and how to iron them at some point here at the MTC.
Hopefully there will be someone nice enough there to do it for me
*crosses fingers*.
Well
that is all I can think of for now. I can’t wait to receive your
letters and to e-mail you again next week. I love you and miss you all
very much and I will keep you updated as much as
I can. Also, let me know how the jazz do this season... just tell me if
they win or lose their games every week, the games should start soon,
right?... Okay, Tchau!!
Love Elder Williams
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