Five weeks down

Hows it going down there? Well its another P-Day and i get to send a lovely email out. So everything here is pretty much the same. The older elders left today at about 5 in the morning which is freaking awesome for them. Its crazy our residence hall is going to be so empty until next week when we get new Elders. Supposedly now time is really suppose to fly by that they are gone but we will see.
For our service project that we do each week i got to clean windows. I am glad that my long career of cleaning windows came in handy up here at the MTC. It is crazy how much the church saves a year by having the Elders do service and clean the bathrooms and stuff like that. I think they said that the church saves over $800,000 a year by having us do it. Its so smart.
The other night i had the strangest dream and i think i was sleeping talking. It was so strange because i think it was Russian that i was trying to say. Tomorrow is the first time that i will get to teach the full first lesson in russian. Haha so we will see how that goes. Its quite fun trying to speak the language but it is fetching hard. Not only do you have to conjugate the verbs correctly but the following words have to be in the correct case or is throws the whole sentence off. Oh well though. Its good times and i am understanding it pretty well.
Last night we had a little "party" in a room. We had chips and salsa, cereal, popcorn, banana bread and skittles. Haha oh and the music we had was MO TAB. It was pretty funny. I came up with a new way to work out. Every night i have been doing push ups and pull ups and its nice to get a little sweaty every once in a while. But now when i do pull ups i put on my back pack so I weigh more and its hard. I thought it was a pretty smart idea. :) I havent weighed myself lately but i still think i have gained a solid 10 pounds. Everything else is going well up here. I sleep well and eat well and work hard.
Elder Hukill Я люблю

We finally have pictures!

This is what Tyler has been up to for the past three weeks! Recognize anyone?

More Words from Ctapeuwuha Hukill- bits and peices of Tys last letter

Family, Well its P-day again and so i get to email so i have most of the Dear Elders that i havent responded back to you guys for so i am going to try to answer as many questions as i can. Anyways, the food here is still pretty good. I am enjoying it well enough. I probably have some sort of chicken and fries every day as well as some orange soda. That stuff is seriously heavenly. I have it for every meal except breakfast. But that orange juice experiment was nasty. It messed up our entire distict. I have never smelt anything as bad as the next few hours as i did. It was pretty gross. And especially because i dont even like orange juice in the first place. I am way mad about what happened to the Penguins. I seriously hate the Red Wings. I was at that RC place the other day and called someone from Pittsburg and i was talking to them about it. It was pretty funny. The person sounded pretty up set with it. Oh well. Its so weird to me that everything is still moving on out in the real world.
Everything here is still pretty much the same thing. We just eat sleep and go to class. Marshall left here today. He came into my room last night at like 4 in the morning to tell me bye. He woke me up by taking pictures of my face with his flash. Oh well he is going to rock out there and hopefully he wont get to fat. His face was looking pretty chunky. I sat by him at the fireside on sunday which was pretty sweet, we just laughed the whole time because the speaker was going off about child birth. It was pretty awkward.
Learning Russian has seriously messed with my spelling. Its crazy. We memorized the entire first vision in russian in TWO days. It was probably the hardest thing that i have every done. Most elders dont do it until like the 5th week but we did it for a gift for one of my teachers. It was way sweet though. Its amazing what you can do with the spirit.
I love you all and hope everything is going well. Thanks for all of the sports scores Dad and keep them coming. Love you guys.Elder Hukill

second email

Hello down there in the great city of St. George, Wow i didnt realize how much i liked St. George until i got locked up here at the orphanage. Haha just kidding this place isnt to bad. The food is pretty good and i eat alot. I dont know if i have gained weight though or not because they dont have a scale here. But i play basketball and do push ups everyday so hopefully some of the fat is being made into muscle. So yea my companion is still way weird and such. He sort of reminds me of Josh Mangold because he tells stories that are so unbelievable they are ridiculous. Everyone just laughs at his stories because they are so stupid.
So we started going to this place called the RC where you get to call people and take calls. I talked to this guy for about 15 minutes about the church and answered his questions. At the end of the conversation i testified to him about the church and stuff. So he is going to get the Book of Mormon and the missionaries are going to his house. It was pretty sweet. When i was telling him about what we believed he like totally thought it made sense. It was pretty sweet. But then you get those stupid people who call in and try to prank you. This one kid called and i answered and he was being stupid and it luckily that i am on a mission or he would have being getting alot more crap then i already gave him. The Russian is coming along just fine i guess. Its still way hard but some of the words are becoming familiar and i can also testify and have a little conversation. Dad this is my schedule everyday. Wake up Breakfast Classroom Lunch Gym Classroom Dinner Classroom again. Haha so its not to exciting. We do different things though at night so its just not all classroom which is nice. Sundays are also way relaxing except for all of the meetings we have. (Chris Cunnigham says Hi and that you are gay) Thanks for all of your guys support that you are giving me. And for all the letters that you guys send. They are really awesome and i love hearing from you guys. I hope everything is going well down there. Love you Guys. ( FYI we arent suppose to say guys here so its nice to get them out). Thanks for the sports scores too. Keep me updated. And i am way mad that the Red Wings are kicking the crap out of the Penguins. I seriously hate the Red Wings. See ya guys. Elder Hukill

Another Letter---Yea!!!

Tyler wrote us again, I never knew a handwritten letter could be so exciting!!! I will just summarize what he wrote, or try to hit the highlights of the letter. He has been able to play a little basketball and volleyball, and is looking forward to playing some soccer in the next little bit- he didn't mention football, so maybe they don't let the missionaries play that at the MTC!!!!
He says his days are full of studying and eating and that is about it, there are not any scales so he has not been able to weigh, I think he is a little concerned about gaining a lot of weight! Tyler is also learning patience as he learns to adjust to his companion, I'm sure that will get better as time goes on. The language is coming along and he can introduce himself now and I think bear his testimony, he says his district is coming along pretty well with the language also. He is enjoying being the District Leader as he gets to serve his district missionaries and work with the Branch Presidency and really likes them a lot. He gets to see Marshall (Chin) or maybe we should call him Cheeks now as Tyler says he has put a little weight on!!!!! He also eats most of his meals with Chris and D.O. He said President Monson's daughter came and gave a talk about President Monson as a father, not just as a prophet. He was very impressed with what she had to say. I think that is it. He will be emailing us on Tuesday, or he better anyway. For those of you who read this he really appreciates any letters sent to him whether through the mail or through the Dear Elder.com. Thanks to all of his friends for their love and support, he is who he is because of your friendship!!!