5-17-2013
Manahoana fianakaviana! Salama ve?!
Wow... Haha I'm a freakin missionary! It's such a crazy feeling to look down and see a badge that says "Elder Roush Ny fiangonan' I JESOA KRISTY ho an' ny olomasin' ny andro farany," it's pretty neat I guess haha. I dare you to try to pronounce it. Jesoa Kristy is like Zesoa KRRistie with a roll of the R haha. Wow I have so much to tell you guys haha, well first off I have forgotten to send the letter that I was supposed to send the first night here... so be expecting that hah... Anyways it was crazy to walk into the MTC and be in that environment, freaking nerveracking though. After I received all my material I went straight to class, met my companion and learned some different Malagasy greetings. My companion is Elder Weber from Dublin... Ohio hah he has red hair and stuff, we've gotten along pretty well up to this point. He is 19 and half and has been in the BYU marching band for two years haha, he's a bio-chem major and just LOVES chemistry. As today as dragged on, I've come to know that he is a know-it-all, he doesn't believe in breaking any rules, follows our schedule super strict and yeah he's kind of been super annoying the past couple of hours. But you know... it's whatever. i'm over it... Not really but hey it's a growing experience, it will make me better and i've just been annoyed today! So I guess all of that is good. I have two other roommates, so there are 4 guys in my district haha. There are 7 other Elders going to Madagascar and they're in my zone. The guys in my zone are total studs, I love them. Elder Payne and Elder Christiansen are my favorites. They're in the room next to me. Fun fact. My DL Elder Lee Chip Sao (elder lee for short) from Tahiti who is in my room, can speak 8 different languages and now he's like super good at Malagasy. The guys in my district (Elder Lee and Elder Fisher) are very, very studious and I don't know if they know what fun is. They are super serious haha so i really wish that we had some of my other buddies in the zone in my room. Oh! Also. We're getting moved to Raintree on the 30th I think haha... so yeah... there's that. Also. I head to Madagaskaria on June 24th... Oh and my P-Day is on Thursday, we didn't get one this week so you people are lucky that I get to write you. And fetching holy crap some of the rules here make it sound like a prison! I just want to DANCE! There is no dancing allowed and you like can't look at girls and yeah... haha its fine. Oh and there are two sisters that are the first sister in the Malagasy mission in like 5 years so that's exciting furr sure. So... I like go through these bipolar stages of missing home and then just being like amped on the spirit... I usually miss home when I'm in class. We had 5 hours straight last night and I swear i've never had such a headache. We taught our first lesson in Malagasy this morning, yeah... haha it was sooo cool but i had absolutely no idea what I was saying, I was pretty much just reading the phrases off of a paper, but hey! It's progress! We have to teach again tomorrow and I've memorized a couple phrases to add onto the like 30 words I know.. Atonement... Sopaonaofotaon. Yeah it sounds like Soup on a Futon.. dope right? Haha but really. Malagasy is so freaking hard everything has a rhyme to it, the words are the longest words of my life, I roll all the R's, J's are dz's, o's are oooo's, tra makes the CH sound. So like yeah.... I'm dying haha so like pray HAAAAARD for me; cause that would be prime, also I'm still coughing and have a cold so I must have the black lung or something, who really knows. yesterday was like the longest day of my life, we were in class for like forever and I feel like I barely learned anything, haha I was so discouraged if we're being honest with ourselves. But today was a new day and that is all that matters and there were many tender mercies. Today I saw Elder Blair (i almost cried cause we both said OH HONEY) and Elder Gustafson who are some of my really good friends from BYU and I saw Elder Giacalone who had his SYL day today where all he can do the whole day is speak in Hungarian... haha that's in 4 weeks for me! It's gonna be TIGHT. There are so many Elders and Sisters here haha like really. The tools of the MTC are the ones who try to talk to you in their language to show off... I just say manahoana, ny anarako dia Elder Roush back because that's just hello i'm elder roush and it sounds freaking sick. Our teachers are talking about Madagascar and it's getting me stoked, haha i'm gonna lose like 50 pounds of weight and I won't understand a word that anybody is saying until almost the year mark but i'll be in MADA BABY! Haha i'm so scared about this stupid language because it's been the hardest and most discouraging days of my life these past couple days but i've been told that I just need to make it to Sunday and keep moving forward and everything will get more fun and a lot easier haha. But yeah prayers would be much appreciated, oh and AUNT KIMBERLY AND THE SHIELDS CREW I love you people, your package was one of the highlights of my day; it gave me the push to get through the second block of classes today so.. tiako ianao (tikooyanow) Which means I love you! But really, I just love you all super much. Oh and a shout out to Caleb b/c it was one of THOSE days at the MTC... hahah. hah.. hah yeah. VELOMA! I love you fianakaviana! (family)
MUCH LOVE,
Elder Roush
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