Ah, there is so much I want to tell you! I wish I could get it all out in my email,
but I can only email once a month! The
chances of me being in Arrak for the first 12 weeks are pretty high! Mainly because I’m with my trainer, but who
knows what will happen! I don’t know if
you will get this before I email you next or not! Hopefully snail mail doesn’t take too long! Better than most foreign places in the
world! That’s for sure!
In the two weeks that I have been here, I have read 280
pages of the Book of Mormon! Probably by
the time you get this I’ll be done or really close! Sometimes it’s hard to write because I don’t
have anything to respond to yet! I try
my best to guess the questions you have and answer them! We teach a ton of lessons a day. It’s awesome.
The more obedient we are in waking up on time, daily personal and
companionship study, the more we show the Lord that we are ready and prepared
to teach His people. And because of
that, we end up teaching more lessons and having better days! So that really motivates us to work hard!
It’s going to be sooo much more fun out here when I start
understanding the language. I know it
comes with time! I try my best not to
get frustrated with it. I like the
challenge. Just give it a few months and
I will be set. It’s not hard, but the
way they all speak is hard to catch up on!
Crazy to think that I’ve been out here for two weeks, been on my mission
for two months… Pretty soon it will be
two years. It’s going by pretty
fast. Again, once I know the language it
will be so much faster!
Did Conner and Ricky enjoy spring break out in Utah?! I hope they did! I hope they got to chill with Lorenzo and
Geoff, too! I miss them and BYU! Can’t wait to go back after the mission! I’m glad I went out in the summer. Things would be a ton different if I
didn’t. That’s for sure. I’m glad I’m out on my mission at this time,
too! Any later would have been hard on
me! Crazy how everything fell into place
the way it did! My handwriting may not
be any better, but at least it’s smaller and a bit more neat! So I can write you more! Writing letters after a while becomes pretty
therapeutic for me! I’ve written a bunch
of people out here, but usually we don’t have a way to send them out right
away. So I write a letter, then it sits
on my desk for a couple days. But all I
have is time out here. My level of
patience is unreal! You wouldn’t even
recognize me when it comes to patience!
Crazy how this mission is tailor-made to me. I know all of us boys’ missions are! Please wish Conner, Dad, and Macey a very,
very happy birthday for me! I’ll be able
to email on the 1st of April probably, so depending on when you get
this and such.
I’m collecting a bunch of cool shells to send you guys! There are some pretty amazing ones out
here! I want to make you guys some
stuff, so if in your next package, you want to send me bracelet/necklace
things, and fishing line, that would be amazing. I guess I have some other needs/wants/desires
that would be amazing if you sent to me, because everything is rather
expensive out here. So maybe in the next
package or two you could send me a new belt, 1-2 casual shirts to work out in,
MORE PICTURES!!! (Thundershock included), some church music CDs (the ones
Tanner got me for Christmas last year!), a study journal for notes, some candy
(Sprees!!!), 1-2 cheap $5-$10 watches (that aren’t Velcro!!!), sunglasses, AA
and AAA batteries, and if you send Gs, make them smalls! I know that’s a lot of stuff, but little by
little, I do need it! And most of that
stuff is really expensive out here so it would be best to send it! Thanks!!
Anyway, I’m doing amazing out here. The first of anything is hard. But I’m getting the hang of it! You’ll need to update me with all my friends’
mission calls! I bet there are a lot! Definitely Geoff and Bunji should have theirs
by now! It’s killing me that I don’t get
to know by now! But it’s all good! I’m just really excited for them! If it helps, when you send a package, include
an SD card full of pictures and I can transfer it to my 16Gb flash drive then
use that SD card in my camera, fill it up and send it back! I’m having a grand time out here! Don’t worry about me, I’m in good hands (The
Lord’s hands!). With all the studying
and planning I do out here, I’m going to be set for life! Studying is something I never really had to
be good at or even do—so coming on a mission and having four hours of it a day
get to be a lot! Hopefully, I get really
good at it in the next two years so I can do really well at BYU!
I know time is constant, but it feels like it’s going so
fast! The other day we were finding and
we decided to go talk to the only American house in our area… They were
Jehovah’s Witnesses… Uhh…that was fun. I
feel bad for the people who do not have the Gospel in their lives. Hopefully they accept it in this life or in
the life to come! That was a real
testimony builder, that’s for sure. Every
boy needs to serve a mission. I hope
Conner has that desire! I know going to
BYU will be awesome for him! Make sure
to tell me what track he gets on! Tell
me stories! Say hi to Steve, take him to
church again! I love you all! Oh yeah, wish Sara a happy birthday for me
too! Much love! Hugs and kisses! I miss my Mommy J Heeheehee.
I LOVE YOU!
--Elder Dallin
Ingalls (3.0) P.S. I love you!
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