Everyone calls me Brad Pitt and we call him my child hahahha (just waitin for angelina in 2 years)
He wanted to be taller than everyone since he is the shortest!!
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Cole Pitt <cole.pitt@myldsmail.net<mailto:cole.pitt@myldsmail.net>> wrote:
Hello everyone! This past week has been so amazing! I will try and keep it short so that you dont fall asleep while reading this email but no promises!
Friday started off with getting Elder Mereki to the doctors for his two teeth extraction! He was a champion for never having surgery before! It was so funny, the doctor and i were just having a casual conversation while he administered "the good stuff" to Elder Mereki, and not even 1/4 of the medicine was in his body and Elder Mereki was out hahaha. With permission from him he is letting me send the pictures I took of him post-op! A big thank you to Alyssa and Dallin for the package you brought! After we got back from the oral surgeons, (the story of getting him into the large van and getting out is too long but ill let you guys imagine an Elder whos never been under sedation before wake up and try to be coordinated enough to do that hahah) Elder Mereki went into the nurses office to rest for the next couple hours! Every 40 minutes we were told to switch out his gauze, but all of the nurses were busy with other missionaries so.... They told me to do it! I was like "oh.. okay.. i guess if i have to.. sure.." but in my head I was like "WOOO!" haha Elder Mereki never hesitates to crack a joke, even after having teeth pulled i guess because the rest of the day he called me "Dr. Pitt or Dr. Elder Pitt" and i wasnt complaining about it!
Saturday- Nothing much happened at all because Elder Mereki and i were at our residence all day letting him sleep and recover! I worked on my Tagalog alot and read almost half of the Book of Mormon! Its a pretty good book i might add, if you havent read it i would invite you to! hahah Elder Mereki now hates jello because he ate so much of it on saturday and i cant blame him! The language is getting alot better and although i dont understand the grammar and the order of words i love Tagalog, it is awesome!
Sunday was a blessing in whole! It was the last sunday for the missionaries who have been in the MTC for their 6 weeks so they all gave talks and expressed their love for so many things, one thing they all talked about what the blessing of prayer and knowing you can talk to God when, where, and for however long you want! Seriously you can! Because the two zone leaders were leaving our President assigned Elder Palacio and I to be the leaders so we were in meetings all day with our Branch President! Then during church Elder Mereki and I taught all of the Elders about the blessing of being obedient! Elder Mereki was stubborn about teaching, he could barely speak, was in pain, and still refused to go back and rest. Im so glad he didnt because he KILLED the lesson. I just sat in my chair and let him have the floor! hahaha At our devotional we heard from Bishop Waddell from the presiding bishopric! I was like wait im confused didnt we just hear from him?? And it dawned on me he spoke at General Conference! He gave an amazing talk and emphasized the importance on serving a mission, not just going on a mission. It was a great talk, and i agree with him 100%!
Monday was fun! Elder Palacio and I went to go get Elder Kainga from the doctors office and his companion! Finally he is done with going to the hospital for his pains and has got the right medicine!! Everyone loves Elder Kainga including myself and we've missed him since hes been gone so much!
Tuesday- I love tuesdays because that is when we have choir practice, and yes i know im terrible at singing but we go to choir practice every week because the conductor tells the best stories about church history or just faith based stories in general. And he is so so funny!! His daughter emailed him on her p day, she is serving someone on the east coast, and told him about how much her week sucked and was just venting to him about how she was trying her absolute hardest and still no luck, from 2 flat tires, to being cussed out and everything else she was annoyed. His response to her was "Think about how hard Christs mission was." and that was it, the next week she replied to him and said something along the lines of "Dad, the first three days after i read your email i was so mad at you and was upset you didnt give me real good advice. Then i thought about what you said, and i understood completely why you only said that sentence. Christ had the hardest mission anyone has ever had! Think about how tough it was for Christ to do all the things he did, his whole life, sinless." It was so good to hear! He went on to explain more about Christ and then he ended with a funny story he had on his mission but i couldnt stop thinking about what he said to her, it was and is so true!
Wednesday was rough because the older missionaries left! All of the sisters were crying and the Elders were all macho but we all knew we were sad. Cant wait to hear from them on their P day though! They helped me so much with getting used to the MTC and i definitely made some really close friends! Then we got the new missionaries for our zone! Because of Visa problems and such, none of the missionaries from Kiribati (11 of them) didnt show up! So we only got 4 new missionaries but we still love em and we are already super close! That about sums up my week. I love it here! But i cant wait to get to the Philippines!
Love you all! Sorry for the spelling again
-Elder Pitt
Pictures
1. Before the Surgery
2. After (hahahah)
3. Taking out his gauze!
4.Elder Solis and I! He is so so funny
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Elder Pitt
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