first email

This Was Kolton's First Email.  We received it Saturday July 9th.  so good to hear from him.  We also received a letter in the mail on Monday.  We have sent him many letters through www.dearelder.com  he gets those daily and enjoys hearing from everyone. 

I NEED SHIRTS! just shirts to wear around, darker shirts mostly, I want to keep my laundry down to darks and whites. Also, I forgot my watch (but you probably knew that already.) I also need some church pants, I only have one pair. I'll send a letter today, the bookstore opens at 10:00 so i can buy stamps then and send a letter. So far, this place is awesome. The language classes are a little overwhelming, my teachers won't speak a word of English to us. But we've had two and a half days of language classes and already I can say good morning, evening, etc. and ask how people are doing.  Today we're going to practice bearing our testimonies in Tagalog.

They take good care of us here, and I love both my roommates (For some reason there is three of us, nobody can seem to answer why.) Elder Stokes is from Ogden, UT and Elder Frearson is from New Zealand. He has an accent thicker than a Jamba Juice smoothie. Some people he talks to ask if he's speaking English.

We get 50 minutes of gym time each day, usually we play volleyball, tonight we might play soccer. Every morning so far I've woken up and thought "Ugh... Another day of the MTC" but the days go by at an incredible rate. I think the mountains have some sort of pull on the speed of time in Provo. I also think when the world ends, everyone who is going to be saved will come to Provo. Well, I got your letters, and the DearElder program can only take so much on each page, so the second letter you sent turned out to be three individual letters, and everyone in my district thought I had a fan club. Masarap ang pangaik! (The food is delicious!)

I love you,

    Elder Williams