Tanner's Letter Sent on Dec. 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

Hey hay hae hei! Suasdei!

How's life treating you?? I hope all is well. This past week has been great! I told a bit about Elder Bednar's talk-which again was incredible! Wow- I could have listened to him all day! So that was definitely the highlight of Christmas-a real spiritual feast to say the least. We had a real good lunch with turkey, potatoes, cheesecake, and what not but then dinner was good ol' sack lunchies but hey they were pretty good:) So yeah Christmas for me was great-I definitely missed the normal Christmas stuff and spending time with all of you and the fun traditions but I still had a great one. Sounds like you all did too! That's great.

So have I told you how we teach progressive investigators? It's our teachers but you still need to love them and you are blessed with the Spiritual insights as you love them and really try to meet their needs as if they were a real investigator. And sometimes nonmembers who come and let the missionaries teach them really do end up joining-so it's definitely something we take seriously! The lessons are all in Khmer so at first we would pretty much be reading the whole thing but now it's a lot better and we are learning to plan our lessons better and allow for us to say things in our own words(usually I'll write some cheat stuff in a little notebook and peek if I need to remember a word or point I wanted to address) We taught Hol Mon who ended up being Lukroo Marill, now we are teaching Phannat but he is gone for the week so we are teaching Som(Lukroo Marill-It's awesome to see how much better our lessons are teaching him compared to just 2 weeks ago! I can only imagine in another 8 weeks) So things are going great with the language and were learning to read-it's humbling because it really is like being a 4 year old trying to read! But hey it'll come!:)

I like to play 4 square a bunch in gym many times and everyone is fighting for the coveted king square-especially at the end-cause whenever the gym time is up whoever is the king gets bragging rights till the next gym time. Well, buckle your seat belts and prepare yourself mentally for what I'm about to disclose-I was pronounced king of 4 square on friday and we didn't have gym on saturday because of Christmas Eve and not on Sunday either-so I was King of the Grid for 3 days! ha then my loyal subjects dethroned me on monday. I know i know-I'm sure you are very proud-it's not worth crying tears of joy over though I 've already done that. Thank you though.

Haha anywho...Things are going great-It's really kinda weird that I will see like 4 groups of english speaking missionaries leave! The groups that I became friends with on my floor that came the same day as me left and then Elder Barney and I had the opportunity to orientate and welcome a new district in our branch on wednesday! One of the elders just got accepted to the byu animation program so i was freaking out and went to his room and had a good long chat with him!

Sickness is going around our district-we had three elders barfin it up from our district yesterday. And all the past week elders have had colds. I'm afraid my comp elder barney was barfin his guts out all last night-so yeah thats no fun..hopefully they just ate something that their stomachs didn't like... but hey I feel great!:) I hope it stays that way and I don't get sick!! So far so good.

Welp, thanks for everything-my love and prays go out to you!

Love,
Elder King of the Grid Garlick