Letter dated 26Jan2012

[Dear everyone, here is today's letter from Weston! As you can tell, he LOVES hearing from you. If you want to get him a message, simply reply to this letter -- and I will get it to him! We are so happy to hear that he is enjoying his stay at the MTC! Much love, Weston's editor - BWS] Dear family and other loved ones, Hola, . It's amazing that I've already been here for just a little bit over three weeks. I can't remember if I mentioned this in my last letter, but time here goes by both fantastically fast and definitely very slow. It's a difficult thing to describe but I want you all to know that I love it here at the MTC. I know I forgot to mention it in my previous letters, but I did see Camilla Jones a few weeks ago right before we were doing our temple walk. It was a cool coincidence to see her, especially since I wasn't expecting it. I have seen Adam Jensen too a couple of times, but he's been working in the kitchen so we didn't get enough time to really catch up, but it was awesome to just see him and say hi! Two other familiar faces I've seen have been Elder Pierce and Elder Anderson. Elder Anderson actually lives in the same hall as I do and we'll talk about how we're both doing and I think it's great that I have been able to see a few familiar faces! I have not, however, seen either Elder Wilson [they are twin sons of Julie's cousin!], probably because they are not in my zone because we are all going to be speaking different languages, and I have not seen David Archuleta yet (although, the rumor is that he will be coming to our zone. I didn't say it, I just heard that from some people). I did get the box (FINALLY!) earlier this week and I was happy to recieve it. I'll also be sending out quite a lot of letters today, since I've just had very little time to write them. Every letter, though, that I have recieved so far has been a highlight of my day! I'm glad that you are writting me on DearElder every day dad, but it's so nice to hear from other people! I'm also glad I missed out on all that super cold weather you all got hit with in Michigan. We have snow, but it's never been bad enough that I've needed a coat. We did, however, have a good January rainstorm before it snowed. That was sweet! [Weston LOVES the rain!] Every Elder in my district is great and we do our best to work together so that we can prepare ourselves in the way we ought to before we all arrive in our Missions. I don't think I've told you about my district yet. As I mentioned before, the other Elders in my district who are going to Barcelona are Elder Rockwood and Elder Lindsay. I used to be in a trio companionship with the two of them but I am now companions with Elder Norman, whose original companion left the MTC for health reasons. Elder Rockwood comes from Sandy, Utah and is a whole lot of fun. He played football back in high school and made a whole lot of money doing sales before he came out on his mission. He has a girl back home regarding whom he has a semi-mural set up in his room with pictures of the two of them together. He always talks very highly of her (almost to the point of annoying the rest of us, but I think it's funny in a sweet way). He is very laid back but has a strong spirit and has had some past experiences that has helped guide him so he knows what his mission will do for him. Elder Lindsay is the polar opposite of Elder Rockwood, but in a good way; he makes up the other half of their companionship. He is our District Leader and he is very studious and determined to get everything right here in the MTC. He's from Boise, Idaho and went to BYU for a semester. He's one of the few Italians I've met and he did want to go to Italy but he's also very excited to head out to Barcelona. Elder Norman is from Corinne, Utah and he is going to Chile. He had a lot more formal education in Spanish than I did and I'm trying my best to catch up to where he is and he's helped me learn to study more and stay on task more. He's the kind of guy who just always has something to say about whatever you are talking about, but the thing he always talks about (besides wanting to hold a girl's hand) is soccer. He got mad at me when I told him I didn't even know that Barcelona had one of the greatest soccer teams in the world (true story) and he's asked me to trade missions with him. I declined since I'm not a huge fan of sleeping on dirt floors (kind of a true story). Two of the other Elders are heading to Chile, who are Elder Fergusen and Elder Curtis. Elder Fergusen is fantastic and lived in Dallas Texas before he came to BYU. He's a lot of fun and always has nice things to say. Elder Curtis is a huge fan of basketball and has stated that it's his life. I don't know if he's gone a day without mentioning Jimmer (pronounced like Himmer when he's speaking Spanish) and he is definitely the goofball of our group. The four other Elders are all going to Honduras, and the two companionships are Elder Evans and Elder Unitt, and Elder Comstock and Elder Oveson. Elder Evans is from Utah and worked as a personal trainer at a gym and he is very energetic and very outgoing. He doesn't know how to play the piano, but he's memorized some songs and can play them very well! The songs are either Disney songs (like Under the Sea) or Billy Joel songs. It was awesome to hear him play them, since we've been listening to church hymns for the past three weeks. Elder Unitt is more of a book worm but he's a great guy. He and Elder Evans clash a lot though and it's hilarious to see the two of them argue over little stuff. Or it at least makes me laugh. Elder Comstock is a big sports fanatic and is usually serious about everything but he has his days. He's stated that he thinks that he's hit a road block in teaching the gospel but I know he'll get to where he needs to be as long as he continues to work hard and not get discouraged. Elder Oveson is from Sandy, Utah and went to Alta High with Rockwood and he wrestled in high school, but he's one of the biggest nerds and funniest guys in our district. He's really good at Spanish (compared to the rest of us) but he knows his weaknesses and flaws and does not boast at all about how much he knows and how much he can do. He always gets the class laughing which really helps with the stress of learning Spanish. With lots and lots of love, Elder Weston Schindler P.S. Could someone hop on DearElder and send me the lyrics to the Hercules song "Go the Distance"? I would very much appreciate that! Also, if anyone finds my old Book of Mormon I would also love to have that. It's probably floating around the house somewhere. Oh.... and I would also love those pictures I left to be printed.