Dear Family,
This week was pretty interesting. Elder DeGraw and I both came down with some sort of chest infection so we had to stay in on Friday and Saturday. My first sick days of my mission so far. I'm still recovering, but I'm not contagious anymore. Those things can really be wildly contagious. A lot of people in our ward have come down with something similar as well, so something is definitely going around. I'll tell you right now though- Those two days stuck in the flat were the two most boring days I've ever had on my mission. To be honest, I've completely forgotten what 'free time' feels like! Now I'm beginning to understand why coming home after your mission is such a harder adjustment than going out on your mission in the first place. When you go on your mission, you stay busy. When you get home, you actually have time that isn't scheduled for a certain thing, and that just seems weird right now.
Well despite our being in sick, Marilyn still came to church on Sunday which was great. We arranged a ride for Debra but she wasn't ready when the ride got there and decided not to attend church, but promised she would next week. However, there was a stake fireside at the Billingham stake center, which she came to, and afterwards she told us it was 'brilliant'. She's really doing well. Hopefully we will be able to set some good teaching appointments with her this week.
Let's see, for the package you're sending I can't think of anything else I haven't mentioned already. Although I am running low on those pens that Mom sent, I only have 3 of the .38 ones left. I seem to go through them super fast. Then again, I am writing things down probably an hour and a half every day, at least. My hand was getting sore all the time at first, but now it's just used to writing all the time.
The mp3 player... let's see. Mom mentioned MoTab and other LDS music and Christmas music. All of those sound really good. Don't be afraid to fill the mp3 player to capacity, there's not many ways I can add music myself. Even if you don't know if I will like something, you can still put it on. I'll just sort through everything when I get it in the mail, like I'll do with my old music collection.
I'm excited for what the house will look like when I get back. So many things are changing already. One thing is for sure though- I'm looking forward to eating some fresh produce from our farm going on there when I get back. No offense to English fruits and vegetables, but it's not the best in the world. Maybe I'll get used to it. I probably miss Israeli foods of all sorts the most. I'm glad the last restaurant I went to in America was Middle Eastern. I wish they had something like that in England. Still no luck in finding falafel here.
I would like to send a letter to James in the MTC but I don't have the address. Maybe you could help me out with that? Pretty please? If you want me to bribe you with crumpets, I will.
Elder DeGraw has a card reader for SD cards that works with these computers! For some reason it won't let me read from my camera directly, but I think that if I can just hook up my SD card to the computer here I can start sending pictures home, which is exciting. Plus the internet here is pretty fast so I might be able to get quite a lot done. We'll see what happens next week.
Love,
Elder Alsop
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