Letter dated 9Feb2012

[Dear family and friends, here is the latest letter from Weston. I hope you enjoy it! It is good to see Weston's humor coming out! We hope that all of you are enjoying a very mild Winter! Send a response to this letter and I will forward it along to Weston. Much love, Weston's editor -- BWS] Querido Familia, Hola, ¿Comó estan? Estoy muy bien, gracias. Lo siento, necesito ir.. Hasta luega, Élder Alejandro Westón Schindler P.S. I´m going to write the rest of my letter in English so that I can write more in the short amount of time I have to let you know how my week has been. Earlier this week, I had the pleasant surprise of seeing Elder (Jared) Henrie here at the MTC. He´s going to Ukraine and he´ll be learning Russian, but we´re in the same residence hall (I´m on the first floor, he´s on the fourth) but it was nice for Elder Anderson and me to see another familar face. It was sweet to catch up with him and hear how he´s been doing. I will say that I am so glad I am learning Spanish and not Russian (or Czech. Boom, roasted Joseph). This week marks the fifth week I´ve been at the MTC and on the schedule it is the sixth week we´ve been here. It´s weird to see some of the other missionaries going to English speaking missions show up and leave while we still have quite a few weeks more to go but it really helps that time flies by so fast! It´s nice, but at the same time it´s making me worried about if my whole life will just fly past and I really don´t want to miss any of it (before I know it I´ll be 50 years old and I won´t know how to work a TV *cough cough* dad). [Ouch!] I'm having the greatest time though, being with guys who are all the same age as I am and while we are very different in most every aspect, we all have very similar things in common, and there's a strong sense of brotherhood and comradery which makes the learning and training experience all the better and worth while! Now this part is to all the people that have written me so far. I hope that most of you have recieved my letters that I have sent and I have sent a lot! I actually did only send a few last week but I'll be finishing those and writting more today so I hope that those letters find their homes in your mailboxes. I only have one day a week (today) that I can write letters so I try to get as much done as possible, but it never seems like enough time to send all the letters I would like. Oh, and there is an Elder that requested some addresses of some of our friends, so I gave him three of my friends' addresses. I'm telling you this now just so you have a little bit of warning if you recieve that letter in a couple of weeks from him. To everyone else who doesn't get a letter from this Elder, don't worry about it. I would like to also mention that I have not gotten sick during my stay here. I hope I can keep up the good health since all of my roommates have had sicknesses at some point during their time here over the past month. I think it's partially due to me just living better too. At the cafeteria I eat the heathy foods and I don't eat more than I need to. The wraps have become my favorite lunch time and dinner time food (and yes mom, I take my vitamins every day. Well... maybe every other day). Also, 5 days out of the week we have 50 minutes of gym time, where I have consistently devoted my time to playing vollyball. I've gotten a lot better and I'm probably going to start running a mile every day starting tomorrow and I end each night with some ab workouts. As I've heard from some of you, mom and Daniel, that you are all on diets, I figured I could do more to also participate in the Heathy Schindler Program (HSP). I've also been told (on the note of my massive legs, namely my calves and my ankles) that I have the perfect legs for weightlifting, so don't be surprised when I come home 5 sizes bigger from all the mussle I'll gain over the next two years. This was a joke, I hate weightlifting, but it is true that they said my legs would be great for it. Okay, I'm done rambling about that. As I've been getting asked by everyone asking me, I'll be leaving the MTC early in March. Depending on when my Visa is completed that will determine when I head over to Spain. From March until I arrive in Spain I will probably be located in a Spanish speaking mission in the USA for a transfer, which will be cool wherever I go. The MTC is great but I'm ready to leave. Probably the biggest reason for that is the fact that most of my days consist of 10 guys sitting in a small classroom and with the food here it can get rather smelly in the room. I will finish with that. Thanks for reading my letter! Can't wait to hear from you before next week! P.P.S. You should definitely let me know when you'll be sending my stuff. I'll be sending my stuff next week most likely just so you are informed. P.P.P.S. Thanks for all the ties that have scriptures on the back of them, Joseph. They become my scripture of the day whenever I wear them!