Thank you all for your support. I love you all very much and miss you dearly.
!!!Please do not send me any pictures via e-mail!!!
I have nothing to store them on, and I'm not even sure this client would allow them, as it is a pre-groupwise vintage of Novell e-mail. The browser client is no better as it is, as I said before, a hacked version of IE 4. If you could, I'd rather get prints of the pictures.
I want to again tell you how awesome DearElder is. As long as I'm in the MTC, I can receive letters from anyone, free of charge, on any day of the week except Sunday. I would love to receive more letters.
I am doing quite well, and will elaborate on the details thereof more in my snail mail, which I promise will be sent off on time this week, as opposed to last week's which is sitting on my desk stamped and postmarked.
To answer the letters sent to me:
I HAVE stopped eating dessert. I never ate much dessert in the beginning. Most days I get an entree and either fruit or spinach salad. (They have spinach salad almost every other day!!!) However, those entrées are so rich. I've been pining after simple foods like sandwiches, good bread, lunchmeat, ramen, and cheddar cheese. (They only use American most of the time.) However, they had some fantastic pastrami and Swiss sandwiched the other day, and I was thrilled, even though the bread was cut far too thick. Not all of us are starving 19 year olds, you know. Oh, wait....
In addition to being rich and heavy, I have never been so gassy in my life, which is embarrassing at best and physically uncomfortable at worst. I'm thinking it's because of all the fat and sugar that’s in EVERYTHING. I'm serious. I had clam chowder the other day and it tasted like they had added a spoonful of cinnamon and sugar to it. And they put sweet corn in everything. The corn is like eating Carmen's sweet potatoes... you know, the ones that are 50% marshmallow?
To answer father's note about tracking Spanish league soccer, I'm not sure that will be feasible. I certainly can't now, and while in the mission field, I'm pretty sure I won't be allowed to use a radio (not that I have one) or purchase periodicals (not that I will have the allowance for them.) I will talk to my mission president about it... when I get to the field. right now tracking anything besides the BYU home games (you can hear the booing all the way over here) is nigh impossible.
Please Do:
Tell myr to put my lamp back or I will NOT try to procure a souvenir from Uematsu's Distant Worlds concert (Not that I think that will be likely, but that doesn’t mean I won't try. One must hold on to good composers like they are going out of style... oh wait...)
Please post this and all other correspondence to the Forum.
Please ask Myr very nicely to post this letter and all others to BMoG, and ask him to put in a plug for DearElder as well. I would love to hear from the D&D gang while they are still in one place. I imagine they're going to scatter fairly soon...
Please make sure that the Aoyamas know about both my e-mail address and DearElder.
Please tell those of the CBC administration (Mainly Alice and Tim Still) of DearElder and my e-mail address.
I love, love, love you all. I miss you and hope all is well with you.
Happy Halloween and all other such things.
PS - I have ALL of my immunization records. As time provides, I will return them.
