Week 6

WOW! I cannot believe it has already been 6 weeks!!! I have made it past my half way point!!! YAY!!! Just over a month left here in the MTC! CRAZY! But this week has probably been one of the best weeks yet!! It started off w/ last tuesdays devotional when i sat in front of Elder David Archuleta and we had a good 10 minute convo before devo started... we are basically best friends now, except for he just left for Chile yesterday. But apparently he was actually supposed to go to Thailand last year but then it flooded, so he knew a little bit of Thai so that was fun! But ya he was really nice and i saw him here and there the rest of the week so it was fun! haha HAPPY SONKRANG!!! (not sure if i spelled that right) But it is the Thai New Year's this week! So basically from what i hear the entire country shuts down for about 3 days and it's just one big huge water fight all 3 days!!! I'm sad I don't get to experience it this year, but next year i can't wait!! They actually let the missionaries join in for one day (b/c no one will let you teach them anyways b/c they are always celebrating) But i am soooo excited!! This week I also feel like i am really starting to understand the language and am speaking pretty well. Our district has made some goals to speak only in Thai for 2 full days!! It will be crazy if we can do it, we do half days pretty well, but a full day is gonna be tough!! Sunday was SOOO GOOODD!! Our devotional was amazing!! Our first speaker was President Brown (President of the MTC) then we had a musical Number by Elder Archuleta and he sang The Spirit of God, and did sooo good!! I wasn't really a fan before, but i can now say I am a David Archuleta fan! hahaha Then our main speaker was M. Russell Ballard! So that makes it 3 apostles that have come out of the 6 weeks I've been here!! Oaks, Packer and Ballard so far! Hopefully we'll get a few more!! At this next sunday's devotional I have been asked to say the closing prayer, so I'm hoping someone big comes! hahaha Tomorrow is going to be fun b/c we get a new Thai District!! WOO! there are 9 coming in, 7 Elders and 2 Sisters and I am soo excited!! I already know one of the sisters b/c she was in my ward last year so that will be fun! And the other sister is from Kaysville, but i don't know her. Another bit of exciting news happened this morning, when the entire girls residence hall was abruptly awoken by the fire alarm at 1:30 a.m.! Still not sure why the fire alarm went off, hopefully they will let us know but ya that put a damper on the morning, we were stuck in the gym for about 30 minutes, so needless to say, I didn't get very much sleep last night! Other than that, not a whole lot! I ran into Jordan Farley this week, i guess he's like the training resource person over the new english district in our zone, so when we were over there welcoming them he came in to talk to them too! RANDOM!! As for my feet mom, I guess they think it is just fallen arches not plantar fasciatis so i don't think i will need the scraping thing or whatever, but i could use some inserts for my shoes, b/c the selection here is very limited! Well that is about it! Hope all is well at home! Love you all! Love, Sister Itri