May 15, 2009

It's funny when people ask me what I'm doing for p-day. I tend to have a short term memory and so am just focused on what I'm going to be doing just a few minutes from now, rather than a few hours, so a few tiems today I've mentioned that "I'm going crazy, want to come?" then I remember what we've planned on doing so I tell them what's really going on.

That was put in to respond to becky's comment "I have to say that being on a mission has not diminished your silliness at all, if fact, it might have made it even more defined. But what else can we expect huh?" It's true. What do you expect with me living with about 150 girls and interacting with them daily... and living with 3 of them 24/7? I mean it was bad enough with just 4 of us in one house. :P

Hmm... random answers to random questions:"What would you like for your first birthday in the mission field? "Usefull stuff... maybe short sleeved shirts. I have mainly long sleeved so I may melt before the summer's out... or at least my short sleeved shirts will get VERY well loved. >.> I'll let you know if I think of anything else :D"Do you have a favorite chair to sit in? "umm... Sure? I like sitting on the couch in our apt.... and then there's the Massage chair in the lounge on the square (usually occupied by one sister missionary or another :) ) On the note of the Massage chair, I have lots of people who want to take me home because I give them minni Massages. The Piipo's are some (a senior couple who just barely went home, their name is pronounced like People, but with out t he L Peeeeppoooe!) and so on. Tis fun."What is your favorite meal when you eat at the cafeteria, if you ever do/have?"Hmm... well we don't really have a cafeteria, unless you count the one downstairs in the COB (Church Office Building) If there... I like going on fridays 'cause if you can guess how much the ice cream will cost (they do it by weight) then you get it free, but... their soup is really good, and their food is overall just really good etc. :D
"Do you love me?" Of course. That's a silly question :P
"Aren't you loving this great spring weather? " Yes! But when it gets hotter, I'm gonna be a little Sister Missionary Puddle. Full of sweat and nastyness and stuff. thankfully most if not all of the buildings are air conditioned. YAY cool air!
"Aren't you excited to be able to talk to us in a little over a month only 5 days after your birthday?!?!?!?!?!? " YES! YAY birthday call! hehe. A little late, but that's fine with me :D. I'll be 22... weird... >.>

:D YAY! go CAmeron! Way to be a Doctor!I'm excited to see a picture of Elisabeth with her cool hair now :D And when you all get to Texas, I can't wait to see a pic of your house!And I'm on a mission to loose weight too. From the MTC I've gotten rid of 15 lbs (Which had found their way to me while in the MTC and in the Orem house... so now I'm back to where I was when I was in Florida :P). Now to get rid of another 35 or so :D
Okay, now I need to go through my planner and see what things I wanted to tell you that I wrote down...
Mom and Dad, say 'Hi!" to sister Senator for me! :D And thank you all so much for your prayers, etc. They're really helpful...
Oh, after I talked to you, someone randomly came up to me while I was waiting for my compy out side the bathroom and said that I liked like someone called "Kelly Mcguellis" from Top Gun, so that was interesting
Okay, so something I didn't mention in my last email/talking on the phone was that I had an appointment with a Physical Therapist on Monday, because my knees have been giving me grief. So I found out that because my knee caps are small for my size and my hips are wide, and I'm too flexable (Hyper Mobile he called it) I'm gonna have knee issues the rest of my life. Fun eh? So I found that out and had/have to learn how to avoid going up and down stairs (which is okay, there are several elevators in most of the places where I have to go.) and do some 'fun' exercises to strengthen the muscles around my knees. And I've also been working on getting rid of weight because he explained to me that every 10 lbs I get rid of is 140 flbs of pressure off my knees, which is a good thing.So since I went to the Physical Therapist twice this week, it feels like it's been two weeks since I talked to all ya'all, not just one. And yet it only feels like yesterday at the same time.Some things he asked were if we have any history of bad knees, etc, but I didn't know, so... do we?

I also met a senior couple on tuesday that know a Walter Durtschi who's 99 in Midway, who's a son? of Fredrick, who came from Switzerland. Cool eh?I also was able to look at a book of the durtschi side of our family, and I saw a pic of Grandpa Durtschi as a kid, his father, his grandpa and his great grandpa, Friedrick. It was so cool :DAlso on Tuesday, I made a goal to read the whole Old Testament and read the first 15 or so chapters in 2 hours while my compy wasn't feeling well and had to rest for a bit.
On Wednesday I found out that "Mormon" means "More good" Or "Happy Man" hehe. I think it was from the book of Mormon Student Manuel.
thursday was our Zone Conference, and that was really goodFriday was my second trip to the Physical Therapist, and he gave me "homework" which came in the form of some excersizes to do at home, which I did this morning, and... yeah... we'll see how I feel tomorrow. Strenghtening muscles is messy business :P

I've met a lot of people from Germany, and something I found out on Thursday was that sis. Stali lives in the same place our durtschi ancestors came from! sooo good. :D
Oh and we also had Fleet Training this week, Fleet is basically being able to drive, so... yeah... Dad is there any way you can request for my Driving Record? And since it's a month till my License expires, can you request for that too? :D
LOVE YOU ALL LOTS!!!! be happy :D
The Sister of the Durtschi sort on the place with the Temple type thing on it.