Hey everyone. It's Week 8 at the MTC and we got 13 new elders this past wednesday mandarin speaking and 6 new sisters. So we have a pretty small district right now, but it's been going. Still at a stride of learning this language, my vocab and tones are very good, it's just this grammar that makes my head wanna explode. It's been a headache trying to get this grammar down, it's so backwards and just weird, but I'm doing the best I can to try to learn it. it's been a tough thing. my teachers brother anderson and sister morey have been very good this past week and we're doing really well. it's been almost 2 months here at the MTC and people are starting to feel like it's winding down with less than 4 weeks left (4 weeks seems like a lot, but it'll go by quick for sure) i'm pretty ready to get out of here, I can understand the speakers pretty well, and my vocab is expanding each and every day so it's been really good, I just need to work on SYL'ing more and just work on grammar, my grammar is more english based so i'm trying to weed out bad habits of putting things in the wrong order.
To answers your questions mom:
I did get the flags, yes. we're using them everyday so it's been nice
what percent of mandarin do i understand?
i'd say 40-45% of what they say I can use to my benefit of just using context clues... I can speak pretty well and do the normal missionary things like praying, bearing testimonies, asking questions, and what not. It's been fun going into lessons and just having 40 minute "real" conversations in Mandarin. It's been improving but fluency comes with time and most missionaries that serve mandarin even with past experience say that they don't feel 100% comfortable with saying everything that they want to say until about 8-10 months out into the mission so i'm looking forward to that. I think i'll probably be along those same lines.
I'm not sure exactly when i get my address to my location yet... I get my travel plans including iteninary on Oct 19 so just 2 more weeks and i'll know all the details and all that. I leave around noon on the 31st so I won't be in the field that night because of halloween haha :)
Elder Gummow is a nice guy, he is a good friend of mine here at the MTC, jessica should write him back, and write me back too lol
The food is okay, I haven't eaten much lately, it's generally a hit and miss everyday... the quality differs everytime you go.
I'm not sure how much i weigh, there are no scales here really besides in the gym, and i never go to that gym...
Do I go outside much? Yes... i've been playing soccer this past week every day... no goals yet by me but i'm a good defender
it's pretty cold like 55-60 in the mornings but it's generally warm in the afternoons here still
i'm pretty excited to finish up here, i've made some good friends here but I feel like 9 weeks would be enough haha, guess we'll see how i feel like 4 weeks.
i hope everyone is having a good week out there and keep sending those letters, they make my nights better when i read them before bed. you guys can send pictures to me through this email also, it works just fine so if you wanted to send me some that'd be great.
Have a good week everyone,
Elder Nathan Sanchez
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