the Last HURRAH :: final MTC Email :: 08.27.09

:: Flight plans! [We'll spare you the details. In brief, SLC to LAX to Hong Kong to Jakarta, which in hours flying + layovers = ~forever & a day.]

:: It is indeed true that we call before we depart, but no one knows exactly how it works or just when exactly we get to call. So . . . sometime on Monday.

And finally, one last update from District 52B in the MTC:

::We have been practicing all week for our musical number in Sacrament Meeting this Sunday, Lead Kindly Light. This would be fabulous if half our Elders weren't tone deaf, and trying to rally them for choir practice was such a rodeo. I am also now lovingly mocked for using phrases like "more musically interesting" and "crescendo like the burning flame." Yeah. Never becoming defunct chorister for 19-year -old boys EVER again.

:: Elder Garrett has officially gained 27 pounds in the MTC. Elder Nixon is so proud.

:: Speaking of which, Elder Nixon is also going CRAZY. We need to get this Wyoming cowboy some wide open spaces, quick. He is currently wearing a paper bag on his head like a chef's hat.

:: We're still driving Brother Ross nuts with our idiomatic swap-overs in the language. Phrase of note this week? "di luar biru." Which is very much NOT "out of the blue" in INDO.

:: I'm the slavedriver in the packing arena, too. Managed to cut SisLily's suitcase from 28 shirts to 14, and that's only the beginning. Just trying not to make her cry at this point.

Okay, 17 minutes and I'm off. I'll leave a few minutes to get back on this afternoon in case you guys have anything quick to say, but until that letter and our phone call, Sampai Jumpa!

I love you.
E