dear Family,
Ok this is going to have a lot of
errors because i have a lot to sy and still only 30 minutes lol. ok so first
TRAVEL PLANS!!! We are flying delta. My first flight is salt lake straight to
amsterdam!!! 13 hour flight!!! crazy i know. we are thinking it might stop in
seattle to pick up and drop off but we wont get off the plane, we dont know. So
my flight leaves at 11:15 am utah time and it lands in amsterdam at 8:30 am the
next day local time. so crazy long. i am curious to see what kind of a plane it
will be. would be cool to fly iona 747 but probably not. idk why i want to fly
in one but it would be cool. probably not though especially since its coming
from salt lake. we have an hour and a half lay over in amsterdam and then on to
berlin which is only about an hour and a half long flight. we land 11:20 AM
local time. My flight numbers if you would please look them up and posibly give
me more details like type of airplane, and any other details about the flight
that would be great. first is 232. that is from SLC to AM. then flight 9571 AM
to TXL. so ya any info would be great and those are my flight numbers so you
can track me in the air :) i would assume you should expect a call from me
about 10-10:30 on tuesday. So make sure someone is near the phone or dad is the
only one who gets to talk to me because i will just call his cell. sorry julie,
your going to be in school. oh and possible around midnight that night i might
call from amsterdam so be ready for that! im sure you will be tired but then i
could [possibly talk to others that missed the call or something. idk. just
stay home and be ready around 10-11 and midnight or so. so thats my flight
plans...oh look at delta restrictions and tell me if im allowed to take my
doufel AND backpack on the plane. the information they gave us said only one
carry on, but we all say other wise wiht our experience flying. so we are
confused. any information on luggage, the flight, or anything please send to
me!
Ok now for notes from the week that i
wrote down and such. first. thanks for the package. i love the new shirt, the
space food and my new tie pin. oh and elder brereton was so stoked about the
cd. thanks for burning him one. that was cool. we listened to it and we was so
happy lol. The tie pin is awesome!!! unfortunatly i have bad luck with tie
pins.. :( i lost the back of it while wearing it :( i know right. totally
sucks. im probably going to buy some cheap pins as suveneirs and only use the
back of them for my tie pins lol. probably the best way to buy replacement
ones, unless you can just buy me like 5 or so backs to those lol. maybe they
sell them at a craft store. idk. all i know is i have bad luck with them, and i
need more LOL.
So my white shirts. i also have bad
luck with them two of them have stains that im not sure will come out. i will
try and bleach today but it probably wont work. So if you could buy me two to
three more shirts and send them before i leave that would be awesome. my size
is 18 -18 1/2 neck and 35-36 sleeve. i dont care what kind, button collar or
not. but prably should send that today or tomorrow to get to me in time. i
would appreciate it.
Ok so thought. idk why i wrote this
down but i felt i should tell you to start learning german!! lol. it would be
cool if you guys could try and speak some when we all go. idk just a thought
that i wrote down. i might send home some of my text books if i dont need them.
probably not until later in my mission but we shall see.
Oh i met about 10 NM elders this week
lol. all on different days. they are so excited to go. i told them where i was
from and what ward, but they wont be meeting you becuase we have the sisters.
PLEASE SEND ME WEATHER EVERY WEEK! im
tired of not knowing what the heck the weather is going to be like and havign
it be a surprise. it pisses me off lol. Please send me the weather with the
upcoming week in a weekly email. please please please. it would make me so
happy to know what the heck is going on.
So family history. i explored the
website this past week and i looked at some names or possible names i could go
to the temple with. there are so many that the work has already been done!! but
most of them are locked. accoridng to the website anyway a lot of them are
locked. have nana and papa reserved names and so they are locked? i noticed
that the "ustach" line goes back to the mid 1600 or so and then stops
in polland. i assume this is because records stopped and the only way to keep
going to to actually go there? i dont know. i just noticed that. it was really
cool to see where i all came from. meik comes from scotland and far far far
back in scotlnad. it is so cool. i just kept clicking and more scotland kept
coming up. ustach is obviously poland, and carlson which i believe if i
remember right is nana's mother. they are from sweden and they also go WAY
back. so cool to see all of that.
update on the work out stuff. my wieght
has stayed steady or slightly gone up. funny thing is though, i have never ran
a mile in under 9:58. which is barely under 10 minutes and that was back in
baseball. on monday i ran it in....9:10. boom!! owned that. i dont understand
my weight but i cna run faster. my goal is by the end of the week to get under
9 minutes. loads of fun and made me really happy to see that.
If you want to...no it is a necessity!!
you must go onto lds.org
and watch some mormon messages. watch "will of god" it will make you
want to change your attitude in a second and be better. its so cool. also
"love her mother" really awesome and "rescued by
christ", oh and "sanctify yourself" love your mother is for the
guys. resqued in for everyone as well as will of god. sanctify yourself is
really for younger preistyhood holders. but it goes for anyone. i highly
reccomend watching all of those. they are all short but watch them!!!1 you
must!!! anyone who is not a member reading this, go watch them to. they are
awesome little videos. they are also on you tube i believe.
So we have figured out that with the
timing of when the prophet is coming to germany, where he is going in germany,
and the timing of general conference we predict that they are announcing a
temple in hamburg. it would take a while to explain but if there is a hamburg
temple announced this weekend or next conference we are so right!!! lol.
Ok so some other things to please send.
a hackeysack. i know random but i totally want one please. the two-three long
sleeve shirts. some strips of fabirc that are brightly colored so i can tie
them to my luggage!! please. and anything else you cna think of. please send
that stuff today or tomorrow so it gets here fast enough. i will be sending
some stuff home that i wont need and that just adds weight. i dont think i will
be over weight for my luggage so that is good. all of my books will be in my
carry on so thats a lot of weight and im sending other stuff home so ya. i
should be fine.
PLEASE talk to the bank and inform them
i will be in germany october 9 so thye dont freak out about my card being used.
should do that this week or on monday. i will be sending some pictures home
later today. i am way over time but who cares. its my last time before the
field and i wont email for about two weeks because i skip a p day so i wont
talk for a while.
HI KARI!!! she said hi in a letter so,
HI! :) Oh so the ambassador. that was cool. it was a really short meeting and
we still dont know why he came lol. he just came. we all introduced ourselves
in german and then we watched us for a little, asnwered some question and then
he left. he was there wiht his wife and about 5 other people all from the MTC,
and other places. it was cool. Oh the german airforce came as well. ok before
you think it was cool, dont. lol i imagined some cool like mid 20 to 30-40 year
old guys, all cool and awesome. no. lol it was like 50 year old guys and their
wives. now that was still way cool. but we were expecting like young pilots and
such or something like that. idk. it was so funny though because one of their
wives was so so so funny. little old german lady who just kept talking lol.
they were cool. they trian in new mexico !!! two of them were from alamagordo
and they knw las cruces. totally awesome.
Sorry kira. no time for spiritual
thoughts today. i will be sure to include some later. i am already 8 minutes
over my time, but again...who cares lol. Thanks dad for the letter/. oh and
whne you discussed being humble and such. thats not my probalem. i know wierd
right? totally not me but everytime we discussed it the one thing they alwasy
said that was good about me was i was humble and willing to accept thought sand
ideas of others....wiat who am i?!?!? lol mtc changes people i guess. well
actually im just not sure of knowledge here and i have realized that i cant do
this witout the lords help so i try not to puish my ideas or thoughts into
others because i am worried its wrong or its not good enough. That is one of
the thigns we had our companionshop problems over. was my inability to trust
myself. i have faith in the lord and that he will help me but whne i get that
help i have a hard time acting on it because i dont trust myself to do whatever
it is. anyway. lots of that in the letter i sent.
ok ten minutes over. i have to go. i
will send pics later today. with description so you know who everyones is. oh,
the names for the temple didnt get here fast enough so just get new cards for
all of the anmes. i dont want to have to make those people wait for the time i
finally get to go to he temple in germany and i might not even get the chance
so just get new cards or i will jsut send them back in the package right before
i leave. no big deal.
Oh and dont call bear a dumb dog mom.
he may not be to bright but he is brilliant in his own way :) i miss them so
much. i miss all of you. I love the pictures of them on the swing and with me.
those are deffinetly my favorites. I will be sending lots of letters today to a
lot of people so if anyone asks or emails you where i am to send me something
back, thats why. love you all loads. tell me how balloon fiesta goes and how
everything is. will tak to you soon.
Love Elder Ustach
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