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Group Email-week 3

This week was your average week in the MTC, and so fittingly there is a lot of stuff to talk about.  So my comp and I werent getting along as well as we wanted too (we are polar opposite personality types) i.e.)he hates being noticed and thinks everyone is judging him, while I dont care if people judge me and am perfectly fine with having all eyes on me.)  So during our comp inventory we got together and made a list of things that we thought were great about the other person, and things we though the other could do better or not do.  Among the dislikes on his list for me were: Constantly singing(Im sorry Josh, I was a huge hyppocrite and feel terrible for telling to stop singing the last 16 years.), saying/doing weird things( thank you so much edmunds family! I just dont think he appreciates how strangely gifted I am;)),  and apparently when he cracks Jokes I dont laugh at them( they werent very funny! i couldnt even tell if they were jokes),  also he says that I need to talk more quietly.  After that we talked about how we could compromise to get along, I have agreed to trade in my singing for whistling so now ill just whistle everything, with the humor ill just have to try to get the joke, and as for saying/doing weird things, that cannot be helped, he will just have to live with it.  That was on saturday, the following Tuesday, we had to teach a lesson to our investigator, I was on mucinex because im sick and lets just say my head was not in the game.  It was really hard for me to actually feel the spirit, but it still just guided me.  I said things on "accident" that we hadnt planned for, and Elder knorpp after was like, "Wow the spirit was so strong in there! we did great! and he even committed to baptism!" and I had not felt anything, i just felt really funny from the mucinex.  THat is just a testament to me that the spirit can guide us to do or say things without us even realizing it.  WE are getting a long better now.  My englis is slowwly degrading because everytime I right, I want to use a c instead of s and a P instead of R and a backwards N it is really hard to keep it all straight.  The language is beautiful, my favorit word right now (english spelling) is Shto it means what.  I can pray, bear my testimony, and teach lessons, and have small conversations all because of the help the Lord has given me.  Learning Russian and spanish has shown me how stupid of a language english is.  The world should just speak Russian, the words are said how their spelt and there is no variations to that rule.  Also sentence structure in Russian is non existent so I you could say "Love you I" and they would still understand it as "I love you".  THat is about all for this week Ill send my mom some pics, the system for emails is subpar, which makes it really difficult to send pictures.  You I love all, for support thank you I do. (Yes Russians talk like Yoda they can)

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Elder Jaxon Hunter Jorgensen

Mom- 

So all I really need now is to know if i need to send home my white slacks and belt? The language is going better for me than it is for most, but I know that's only because the Lord is helping me.  I can pray, bear my testimony and have short conversations in Russian.  I can read slowly, and I can write fairly well.  Im really happy here, the atmosphere here is amazing and the weeks are starting to really fly by.  I cannot believe ive already been in for 3 weeks.  MY only complaint is that my companion can be really negative at times, Ill talk more about that in the group email though.  He is going to my mission, none of the others in my district are going to it though. There is another district made up entirely of elders going to the Dnepper(there I said it) mission.  In all right now there are 14 of us going, there used to be 15 but he went home because he had some major difficulties learning the language, his family had 17 kids(mostly adopted) and my guess is he had some form of learning disability he was a lot like Jordy.  BTW Elder Tucker and whitney were like best friends apparently so get me her email because he wants it.  He is in my district.  There isnt going to be a missionary choir in GC this year so im sorry to disappoint.  Love you too!