It looks like I will get to use e-mail, but only for family (and they 


ask us to limit e-mails to parents), so I'll be using this email for 


my to-everyone letters. I only get 1 hour on the computer, and the 


website is absurdly slow, so I ask that you continue sending me mail, 


and I will e-mail you, so I don't have to try and wait for it to load 


my inbox, then your email, and then try to send a letter in time. 


Anyone else can send me mail, and I can also send them letters.





I'll be sending a letter today that describes what happened on 


Wednesday and Thursday while I was in the mission home, but I think 


that you both should hear the news: President Seal has asked that, 


after three months of being trained, that I go do Springdale, 


Arkansas, and learn Marshallese, as there are 8,000 people from the 


Marshall Islands there, and they refuse to learn (or maybe just 


speak) English. He wants me to be there for about a year.





I've gotten a binder of lessons on Marshallese (they don't teach it 


in the MTC), but I really need some linguistics help. They don't seem 


to have what I need down here, so I need David's help: have him go to 


the USU library, and look for a book on Marshallese. Probably the 


easiest thing for him to do will to look for a particular series, the 


Routlege Language Family Series (might be Routeledge, Routledge, or 


Routelege, one of those four), particularly one about Oceanic or 


Austronesian (I'm not sure which one), and have him copy pages on 


Marshallese, and send them to me. My address is included in the 


letter I am sending today. I'm gonna check out and see if I can do an 


inter-library loan real quick, but if David can get that quicker, I'd 


greatly appreciate it.





Things are going well. My trainer is Elder Morrill, who has been out 


for 21 months. Sorry to be so brief, but I need to look for a book on 


Marshallese that has more linguistic data than what I have. Also, if 


you could find a Marshallese dictionary, that would greatly assist 


me. Send it to me for Christmas or something. Oh, and whose name do I 


have for Christmas?





Also, in my box of notes, if you could send me my green folder with 


yoga stuff in it, I'd appreciate it ?(I'm thinking of using it for my 


30 minutes of exercise). Also, in the brown box in the metal closet, 


there's a clear plastic bag/container thing with some brown shoe 


polish. If you could send these to Elder Lefranc (send them to the 


mission home), as he could really use them. Be sure to get Heather 


Fausett's address in Logan (heck, even Price will do). Also, if you 


could print out my address on an envelope and have you send one of 


your letters in that to me, it would help me in getting a library 


card, so that I don't have to pay $2 for an hour of time (it took 15 


minutes just to load the website), and possibly do an inter-library 


loan for a book on Marshallese (already authorized by President Seal).





Anyway, I've gotta go. Take care!