dear people that i spent time with before my mission,
i am now in the england mtc. i love it here it's completely different than my experience in provo. there are only fifteen missionaries at this mtc currently. we have four couple missionaries, five sisters, and only four elders. and the couple missionaries are leaving on thursday so then it will only be my district here. just the eleven of us alone in this big mtc building. see this mtc can actually house about one hundred sixty missionaries and the president says that they usually average more up into the fifties or thirties but that my group is the smallest that they have had so far. i love my companion here. his name is elder casey he is scottish (i learned this pretty quickly and not just because he sounds like that pig from jakers with his voice dropped two octaves) he starts about half his sentences with i'm scottish and i'm stubborn and then goes on to finish what he said. for example i'm scottish and i'm stubborn so i think i'd like an apple today, or i'm scottish and i'm stubborn so i miss that kilt i used to wear. you know stuff like that. he was a butcher before he came on a mission and other than disagreeing about the difference between pants and trousers we get a long great.
we've had a great time doing the practice teachings. elder casey served a mini mission for a month in ireland before he came to the mtc so he has a lot of incredible insights and he has been helping me to learn about how to teach incredibly quickly.
the other two elders are an elder buglass from york and an elder ferral from denmark. we have a lot of fun at dinner because all of us have incredibly different accents so sometimes (mostly when one of us is trying to tell a joke) we can hardly understand each other. The mtc pressident here is fantastic. since it's such a small mtc we meet with the president nearly every day, and we get to eat meals with him absolutely every day. he apparently is great friends with grandpa and knows dad fairly well, seeing as he used to be the president of the salt lake temple. his wife is also equally amazing. she is president hinkley's oldest daughter so she has some amazing stories about how he was in her personal life (president has a really funny story about asking him if he could marry his daughter by the way that i will tell you guys when i get back).
aaaaaah my time is already nearly up for this e-mail so i'll wrap it up.
um i need people to write me because i don't have any addresses so i need you guys to write me so that i can write you.
um haven't eaten any krumpets yet but i have eaten a croissant
i love you all and i can't wait to hear from you
the church is true and i'm more sure of that now than i have ever been
love
elder jarman
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