January 7, 2009: Last MTC E-mail

So this week has been really quite slow. Probably the most interesting
thing this week was Matthew's visit.  It was really nice to see him and
talk to him, and have him harass me about my tie.  He does seem to be
the same old person. I thought he'd be a lot different but it was weird,
he looks the same, sounds the same, and talks the same. It was almost
like he hadn't even left at all.

Still no word from Harry, I'm thinking maybe he wrote down his address
wrong, not that it matters much. By now he's probably already down to
SUU and his address is different anyways.

So I was assigned to be the flight leader person for our group that's
flying out on Monday. We've got 7 missionaries in our group, 6 from
my district and one more whose a Spanish speaking elder.  We report
at 4 a.m. to the travel office on Monday morning and our flight is
scheduled to leave at 7:05, so if I were to guess what time I'd be able
to call it would be around 6:00-6:30, but since I'm the flight leader
I want to make sure everyone else gets to call home first. If I don't
get to call from SLC I should be able to call from the Atlanta airport.
We fly from Salt Lake, to Atlanta, to Nashville.

I'm totally pumped to get to Nashville. I'm a little bummed that I lose
Elder Wright as my companion but my excitement in getting out to the
field outweighs my anxiety over a new companion that probably won't be
as cool.

I got to play the violin yesterday. They replaced the strings on it and
I got a chance to practice. I still remember pretty much everything and
I can play 4 hymns on the violin. I've gotten incredibly better at sight
reading hymns on the piano.  So my goal this week sometime is to rent
out the cello and see if I can still remember any of that.

Well, my laundry's done and I've gotta run, but you'll be hearing from me
on Monday sometime, most likely in the morning. If anything changes I'll
probably jump on e-mail really quick and send you a note about it. 

Love you all!!

Elder Carpenter