Dear Mom,
Easter here was awesome,
we had a massive sacrament meeting and it was way cool, over 3000 missionaries
getting the sacrament at once.
Overall the food has
started to repeat so it is kind of not tasting as good anymore... I have
gained a total of 6 pounds :/, although my companion has gained 20!! Things are
fun here, Spanish is going well, and so far I have taught about 11 lessons to
investigators. It is really hard but
easy at the same time, the spirit is great here.
I mostly play volleyball
at gym time and am rockin it!!! Oh yea.
I fell asleep in a
devotional the other day because my companion had to get up and use the
bathroom twice in the night... now I know how dad feels hahaha.
I wish I could see the
fox it must be so cool.
I have received four
nicknames, they are as follows. 1 The Bard: they call me this because I tell
really good stories I guess. It has
gotten to the point where it is like telling bedtime stories to 5 year olds,
half the time they give me a topic and I make up a story, it is funny. 2
Maverick: I was singing danger zone and they said that since I am like a cowboy
to them it sounds cowboyish, it is kind of ridiculous... 3. Pacman: this is
simply for my last name... 4. The Boy Scout: they call me this because I got my
Eagle at such a young age and I am like the biggest outdoor nut to them... They
are all just city slickers. Anyway, it is fun here.
Sister Romans in my
district, she is the one I talked about. (She is the one whose father is a
fireman). The reason I brought her up is because she and I have a lot in common,
except she is chicken over some weird stuff... for example she is afraid of
birds... weird. Anyway life here is good... loads of fun. Well Love you Mom and
read Matt 11: 28, I think is what it is.
Love Elder Paxman
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Bailee!!!!!
How are things?? It is
cool here and I mix drinks together.
One of the things I
wanted to talk about was Sister Wallentine, she knows you from Weber and she
knows Kyle.... Her name sounded so familiar. Anyway thought I would mention
that I met her.
Sorry this is going to
be short I only have like 5 min left. I am in the choir here at the MTC. You and the family need to watch the pieces
of stuff between conferences... because one has us singing in it and I might be
on there so Watch it!!!! Spanish is going well I can now talk to someone a
little hahaha, well "it’s all good" here and things are tons of fun.
Oh and a guy from West Yellowstone works here, he was the one that sang "How
do you like me now." I haven’t had a chance to talk to him, but I see him
every once in a while.
Tell everyone I love
them so much and that I am going to start Hand writing messages just to get in
the practice, so make sure Brooklyn doesn’t feel left out because I am going to
hand write her. My hand writing stinks though.
Love Elder Benjamin
Paxman, brother, and loving servant.
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Hey Hopper, (Brooklyn) so the CCM (MTC in Spanish)
is going pretty great, one thing you will enjoy is this one time me and my
companions were going on a temple walk and all of the sudden we look on the
grass and there is this bunny!! A bunny, it was like a magical creature, we took
a solid ten minutes taking pictures with a freaking bunny, it was sad. Things
are going really well here other than us being weird.
There is an elder in our district that is
really good at art he took 15 min in class and drew a tree that was
intense.
We have been having fun and learning a lot of
stuff here. I would type in Spanish but my grammar isn’t that great. The food isn’t tasting so good and it makes
all of us gassy... except me!! So it bites.
All around we have been teaching 3
investigators. A bunch of people want
pictures of all sorts of stuff from home, so if you and mom could get pictures
of tons of stuff that would be great. The
sisters want one of me when I am like 6, like the one grandma has of me,
so find that. They all really liked
the picture you sent me already. With any pics you send me make sure that you
have copies.
One of our teachers named Brother Hollstead is a
really really good acapella singer he and his buddies started the UVU group that is equal to
vocal point and he helps vocal point when they need it. He has had a
lot of fun. I am desperate for mail so
make sure that it is on Facebook that I want mail and put my address on
there because everyone here gets like 3 letters a day and I get maybe 3 a
week... it is really sad. You would like some of the sisters in
my district you would get along with them. Well my time is
running out so make sure to hand write me or dearelder.com works too.
List for package.
Cologne: either Black or
Bleu de Chanelle,
Note cards...
A lot of them
Bouncy Balls
Photos lots of them
Addresses of people who
want hand written letters.
Tell everyone that I can
email anyone now
Good pens
Lead for my pencils they
are .7
Quotes, lots of them from
people I like and just good ones. Funny and serious have mom and dad assist, that’s
about it.
Love Ben
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Dear Dad,
Yes the Easter holiday
here was great!! We had a special devotional where they passed the sacrament to
the entire MTC, it was really cool, over 3000 missionaries getting the sacrament
all at once. After which the Presiding Bishop of the Presiding church bishopric
talked to us. It was a really good
talk. He is from France. Overall Easter
was great here in the MTC. I got to watch a movie here called the Characters of
Christ... I wish you could all watch it, it is a talk that Elder Bednar gives
to the MTC about the "Character of Christ". To everyone’s knowledge you can only see it
here and it is one of the most amazing talks I have heard in a long time.
I am the only
missionary I have met so far that is going to Indianapolis, Indiana Spanish
speaking, it is really odd, but cool at the same time.
We now get an hour on
the computer so I am trying to include pictures that me and my companion took. I
am hoping I can send them in e-mail so we are going to try it out... if not I
am still going to send an SD card home here soon, even though it only has about
200 photos on it. I am going to give you an explanation of my companion...
To start he is tall like
6 foot 5, he kind of looks like Clark Kent, oh and I had him read all this so
he approves. He is awesome and we
already did something stupid of course... I took pictures. But, pretty much we were given a toddlers bowling
set with like 6 pins. The ball wasn’t
working to well so a genius member in our district (he is from the military
base on Okinawa), anyway he decided to use an un-opened frosting can to bowl
with... Yea... It wasn’t the brightest idea. The first 2 bowls went ok and then
after about 5, I went in the room to grab something and all of the sudden I hear
this HOLY COW!!! I come running out and
the frosting can had exploded and sprayed chocolate frosting all over the
hallway, so far it has gone undiscovered, but it took us at least 2 and a half
hours on our p day to clean it up... Morons... Anyway back to my companion, we
gave him the nickname of "The Taker" he has a habit of stealing
everything,(I’m pretty sure this means taking/hiding in a joking way) like for example one day I
couldn't find my nametag anywhere and I asked him if he knew where it was... (We
are given two by the way) and all of the sudden I look at his shirt and wouldn't
you know he jacked my name tag!!! The bugger. I had to explain to him what a season was...
like summer winter fall kind of a thing. I love him, overall though and he is
pretty awesome. He is strong in the spirit too.
So that’s how life is in
the MTC. Well I have to go change over my laundry. I might start writing some
hand written letters just to get in the practice of it... Well tell everyone I
love them and to have fun. Read D&C Section 6 or 11 both some of my
favorites. Oh and sorry my email was way short last time I had like 5 seconds
left and had to just end it.
Love, Elder Benjamin
Paxman, your son.
The bowling with frosting story had me shaking my head. I guess they are still 18 and 19 year old boys. :) I did wonder who sent them a bowling set?...;)
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