Salutations

Ma chere famille

Bonjour!!!!!! Comment ca va? All is going well here, and I'm having fun! I'm just hoping that I'm focusing on the work enough. Our two progressing investigators are doing super well, keeping their commitments, and getting more and more spiritual knowlege. I've found out what my problem with my French is. My companion and a rescource teacher said that I'm not taking enough time to think through what I'm saying, go figure. The rescource teacher said that my french is very good when I slow down and think about what I say. I'm much more encouraged now. Today we get to go and clean the temple today. It's an awesome experience, but we're going to be there for 3-4 hours, so I don't know what to think, since that steals some P-day time from us. Well, I'll do my best to enjoy it thouroughly, since we only get to do it this once. It was a miracle that it rained, we were really happy that it did so, it cooled the place up a bit. I haven't gotten your package yet, but I anxiously await it. Here at the MTC, letters and packages turn whole days around. Let's see. Oh yeah, tell Grandpa I saw the organist here, and thought about his trip to Europe, and was wondering how that went. I talked with the organist too. I went to my first choir rehersal Sunday, and had fun with that, but I'm not sure we will be going to the one tonight, cause we may want that personal time. What else is new, I don't know so why don't I tell you a little about how things run here. We get up, shower, etc. then go to personal study. Then we have breakfast, then more personal study. Then we have class for three hours, which is where we also do our progressing investigator lesson time, along with "personal study time" like we really get any studying done at all, then we go to lunch, have language study, and then either go to gym or class again. Gym is one of the highlights of the day. I just get to work out and be lost in that. Then we go to dinner, and then either have class or gym. Then it's daily planning, and then it's off to the residence for a half hour of personal time, and then quiet time. I like to do some quick ab exercises during personal time, talk ,and just relax. Then during the 15 minurtes for quiet time, I write in my journal, pray, and do companionship prayer.

I really want to go out into the field and get used to that schedule, and get comfortable, so that it's not so "looming ominously".

OH, my companion and I will now have to share our beautiful room with some other missionaries, because our zone is receiving 44 new missionaries: 11 sisters, and................. Wait I can do this!!!...................33 new Elders. Yeah, our residence is being flooded by them. This ought to be interesting. Well, I can't wait.

I love you all lots and lots, and when I continually think about how awesome it willl be to see you when I get off the plane. I'm not homesick, but I'm just looking foreward to seeing how you all changed, especially Sophie.

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calvin Messinger