Canada here he comes!

Calvin will be leaving the MTC tomorrow 7/31/12. He has completed his language and teacher training in the last 8 weeks and we are so excited for him to be in the next "chapter" of his mission. Calvin is very excited too, as evidenced by his email last Tuesday:

Hey,

  I  got my travel itenerary this week!!!!!!!!!! I leave from the MTC at 4 IN THE MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then, we go to the airprot , and leave at 7:05 to go to Detroit. We arrive in Detroit at 12:31, and then leave for Montreal at 2:05. Then, we get to Montreal at 3:57. So, I want to ask, when would it be best for you to have me call? Oh, yeah, we get to call our families at the airports. I have been told there are no limits, but I'm thinking a half an hour to 45 minutes at most. Does that sound ok to you? I was thiking about doing it here in Salt Lake, but I could do it in Detroit, if I have the time. Anyways, that's my flight itenerary. I enjoyed all your letters, especially the handwritten ones. Goodness, time seems like it's flying by right now. It seems like just yesterday I was here doing P day emails, it's sort of encouraging, but I still hope I get everything i can out of my mission. Oh, I will try to send you a map of the MTC, so you can see on goole Earth where i am. I'll mark on it my residence hall, and where my class is ,etc.

    I have really found the joy music gives me. I miss being in band, and I love being in choir. Unfortunately, I will not get a chance to sing in the chior again, but I got to perform in the chior at least once. I REALLY want to do more music with Chantal and Miranda, so practice hard! I miss playing classical music. Maybe when I get back, I'll join some sort of orchestra, or something. I miss the French horn.

   Anyways, It's great to hear that you went to an Art Gallery. I REALLY have been missing fine art. I haven't been getting distracted by it, but I keep fondly remembering our last art gallery visit. That was a COOL place. [The art gallery he's referring to is The Spool Factory in Johnson City, and is owned by one of Todd's college professors. We went to his show opening a few days before Calvin left for the MTC.]

   Umm... reading back through the letters, I think I missed something, what was that expirement you were trying? [He had sent us the SD card from his camera so we could download some photos, and we tried to send him some photos of us back, but it didn't work.]

   I have begun to earn a love for this work. My French is getting better too, but out of the two, I want to get a love for this work. I want a love for the people. I am very excited to get out into the field. I'm sorry this is so scatterbrained, but when your trying to fit EVERYTHING important into one e mail, you get sort of scatterbrained. I found today, that I need to read my scriptures more. For the past couple of weeks I have been reading Jesus the Christ, which is a good book, but I found great peace and comfort reading the scriptures, and my Patriarchal blessing. I feel super comforted now.

   The past few days I have also wanted to just work out. To just get some weights and go until I can't any more. Working out is one of the few things here that gives me solace. I'm really excited about that. I have been drawing as well, but I have been focusing on not doing it too much. I use it to help me concentrate, in class, and I think for the most part it helps. Miranda, I know what you feel like when you said that you feel really antsy without being able to draw. I just can't concentrate.

I Love you all SOOO much, I think that's why theLord sent me here to realise just how much I love you all

Be the Best you can be

 

CALVIN

Calvin's new address will be:

Elder Calvin Messinger

Canada Montréal Mission Office

470 Rue Gilford, Ste 300

Montréal, QC H2J IN3

Canada