QUOTES!

Emma & Sally have decided to include quotes from Colter's letters and emails - so that you can "hear his voice".  We'll choose the best ones in reverse chronological order!:

(July 30) Wow, yeah it's crazy i've already been here a month! I doesn't really feel like it. I feel like my german is coming along pretty well. My comp and i taught our first lesson in German to our teacher, Sis. Jones. It was cool and very hard. So now we are going to be doing even MORE in german, which seems impossible.

I have seen friends here. I see Seth kind of a lot. His schedule just works out with mine. We have gym together some days. I see people from BYU a lot too. Nathan probably comes next week, or he's already here and i just haven't seen him. We haven't had any visits from General Authorites. Apparantly, July is there month off. So we might get one on sunday!!! We have gotten a few emeritus 70s though. we also go the guy who wrote "other side of heaven" that was cool. For excercise, i play volleyball mostly. But sometimes soccer and every week we have "sandlot tuesday" which is softball as a zone. This week i hit 3 triples and hit it the farthest! :)

The MTC is so cool. My teachers are awesome, everyone is nice, i'm learning a ton, and i've even started a scripture journal. I'm going to go through the Topical Guide and study stuff i think sounds interesting. Right now i'm doing the Abrahamic Covenant, which is really facinating. Also, my comp and I have finished the gospels and are working our way through Acts. We read about 6-7 chapters a day together. My district is awesome, and i hope that i can work with at least a couple of them in the field. (my comp is the only one in our district going to Switzerland). I'm only district leader for a couple more days, i'm kinda glad, it's been an honor, but i just want to be a missionary, sure and simple. However, there's a 1 in 3 chance i'll be made zone leader on sunday, cause there's only 3 companionships in my transfer. Anyway, I should go, but i'll do my best to write a good letter today. We don't get much time on P-days, with laundry and everything. And naps are really important, I'm always exhausted by thursday, so i take a nap! haha. Have a great week, i know I will. and btw, my diet is faltering a bit. I didn't lose ANY weight the like, week i ate only salads. so i just try to eat only as much as I am hungry. Anyway, i'm going now. Thanks for Danny's address. He's been in my prayers.

(July 23)  We got a new district on Wed. We have 2 sisters and 1 elder. Which is weird for him. He is a solo, which means they have special rules. He's essencially part of another companionship in the Zone. Also, one of the sisters is from Armenia! She prayed yesterday in Armenian. It was so cool.

(July 16)  Here I am doing laundry again! I went to the temple again today and did another endownment session. There isn't that much to report on, I love it here, but it's very routine. I'm getting along with my companion fine, and my district is awesome as well. German is coming along pretty well. we are still reviewing grammar i already know, but it's nice to relearn it. The best thing is just practice, which we do a lot of. My comp and i are actually teaching our first lesson in German to a progressive investigator, which is exciting and scary. Probably the highlight of the week was when we went to the call center. We got some incoming calls and a woman from NY, NY called. She wanted a free bible, cause she recently moved and realized she didn't have a bible in her house. So i sent it to her WITH the missionaires. It was awesome, and she was really nice too and rememberd my name throughout the entire phone conversation. It was great.

(July 9)  This first week was soooo cool. My district is awesome, and so is my companion. Elder Kunzler. He's from Idaho Falls, Idaho. The rest of my district I think I also told you about in my letter on my first day. Classes are awesome and my teachers are amazing. Brother  Sorber is so funny and amazing. He went to Frankfort on his mission and got back 3 years ago. Equally as awesome is my other teacher, Sis Jones. She also went to Frankfort and is really sincere and truly loves us for what we are doing. 

i guess i'll give you an overall of my day. Wake up at 6 so i can be ready by 7, study til 8:15, eat, study til 1 (or have a teacher), eat, study til 6 (or have teacher or practicing teaching "investigators"), eat, study til 9 (or have a teacher). There's LOTS of self directed time. We pretty much spend more time in our classroom then in our rooms. That includes time sleeping. I was so exhausted today, that during personal time (oh, today is P-day) that i crashed and took a 2 hour nap.