Letter to Lyndsi

Hey sis! Whats going on? Guess where I am right now? The laundry room! And yes, I did do my own laundry. Just like every week. I have three weeks from today. (Letter dated 07/15) It feels like I have been here an eternity though. Sometimes it does anyway. My haircut turned out fine though (I think.) I told him to keep it as long as possible which he did. I took pictures of it which I will send with this letter. But no, they don't wash your hair. They don't even use scissors and it took him like 5 minutes to cut it and I think his eyes were closed. haha. And yes, my facial hair is starting to come in. I have to shave at least every day. Its quite annoying. Sounds like Makenna is quite the dare devil. That rocks. And holy cow your baby boy is getting HUGE! He seriously is a chunk and a half. I was laughing so hard when I saw those pictures (which by the way were really cute) But yeah, patience is one thing I really will have when I get back (hopefully) That was Elder Fleuwellen playing all of the cereal and salsa. Your child learns the strangest words. Where does she learn all of them? But yeah, I have made pretty good friends with one of the elders. His name is Elder STeele. His is going to Donesk though so that sucks. It will be way sweet though because when we get back we are going to party! He lives in Preston Idaho. Oh it was so sweet. Holy Fetch and I seriously just forgot what I was going to say. That sucks. Dang it. Oh well. I have no idea what it was but it was cool. Well I can't remember anything right now. So I'll talk to you later.

Last Two Weeks in MTC

Today we finally get to go to the temple after it has been closed for the past two weeks. But i guess i should be grateful since i wont be able to go for 22 months. So now it is 100% russian from here on out. I am really not going to try to speak English for the next 22 months of my life except when i have to. That should be exciting eh? I hear your grammer is screwed up when you get back because Russian is seriously the crazy language. Its fun though talking in 100% Russian but at the same time is pretty frustrating. I dont want to be like the last district though and just give up because it is hard. On Sunday me and Elder Steele got together and told all of our good stories and about our lives. Haha since we cant talk in English any more we just got it all out. It was pretty funny. It is strange though how close you come to people who you have only know for 10 weeks. Even though i am with them 24 hours a day of my life!! Yesterday i was on LDS.org listening to conference talks when i came across Uncle Dons from 2004. Its is a pretty awesome talk and we listened to it for companionship study and then discussed it (In Russian). But yea it was a really good talk. My companion Elder Taylor really enjoyed it and gave it to his friend who is struggling to decide to go on a mission. I wish i could write comments in the pictures so you knew who everyone was. That Blonde Sister was a Russian who was in the last Zone. She was just going around taking pictures with everybody so yea. But hopefully i remember all of their names so when i get back i can tell you about them. Elder Steele though is the Elder with Brown hair. Haha i dont know if that helps but yea thats him. We got our Russian name tags last friday so that was pretty exciting to see that thing. Our last name is sweet looking. I should be getting my flight plans this friday so i will be able to tell you next week when i can call. But it would probably just be helpful to call one place so yea i dont know what you would want to do about that.
I went to choir last week with my companions, they forced me into going so i said i would only go once. But i got onto the little TV little and the jumbo tron screens they have here so that was a good accomplish ment. Haha so i am not going back since i made it on to it. Well I love you all and i hope everything is going well. I will be able to talk to you in 2 weeks. Its really doesnt even feel like there is an outside to this place. Love you all. Elder Hukill

Pictures from Ty

He sent no letter! Just a memory card. So enjoy!!!

Tylers latest letter

Happy Birthday Pop! Haha i hope you got my letter yesterday. I cant believe that you are 50 and still Wakeboard and do all of that other crazy stuff. Everyone in my Districts says Happy Birthday as well.
Speaking of Gavin he is getting HUGE. Haha he seriously looks like Curly from the 3 Stooges. When i got those pictures from Lynsdi i was laughing for about 5 straight minutes. Its fetching awesome. He looks so tight. I love that kid and Makenna. Who all went out there? I cant believe Grandpa Skied and at he is 72. So everything here is going fine. The temple was closed again today so pretty much i have all day to do whatever i want to. It gets quite boring though. We got 3 Natives from Russia last week into our zone and they are way sweet. I like them more than the last Natives we had. Its pretty cool because i can kind of have a little conversation with them but then they just go off and completely lose me. Haha they speak decent English so we can have a conversation in Russian/English. Speaking of them there is an Article in the New Era about ukraine and the Sasha kid that there is a picture of was in my Zone. He is a pretty funny kid.
So we set a district goal last week to only speak Russian until Dinner. It is pretty tough but at least next week when we have to go all russian it wont be such a shock to my system. 3 weeks left and i am out of here. Haha that is still forever away and it sucks because Derek and Chris leave next week and i talk to them alot so it sucks that i wouldnt be able to see them anymore. But that just means it is getting closer for me to get out of here. Yesterday in class i had to teach about the ressurection and compare it to a Fan. It was pretty funny and difficult at the same time. You should have heard it. My teacher gave me a pretty sweet compliment afterwards. I cant remember what it was but it had to do with St. George and being laid back. It was sweet.
You guys should read the book our search for happiness. Its really good. And even get a Preach my Gospel and read through that. Those are really good books. Well i love you all and hope you have a great day. Tell everyone that i say hi.

July 2 Letter from Tyler

I am sory but thisl etter might be pretty short. I have things I need to do but I just want to give a quick run down.

Tonight we taught the first lesson all in Russian again. We got worked over by the person we taught since she was a native Russian and asked hard questions that I have no words for her questions. But it was a very humbling experience that I will learn from. It wasn't horrible but definitely tough.

The second thing is that all the new Elders we were suppose to get didn't come. All the Russian Elders that were suppose to come in today were all re-assigned. They aren't calling anymore Americans to Russia. They all found out last night that there call had been changed! I think I would freak out. But a mission is a mission. So we don't get any new ones yet. I am ok with it though, it doesn't really effect me. (hopefully). So we are waiting to see what will happen with the Russian missionaries already here.

Well I love you guys. Everything is going good here, just striving for perfection. Oh yeat, I just remembered, I got a haircut yesterday and all my blonde is gone. That sucks way bad. Oh well,
Love you.

Ctapeuwuha Hukill

Letter to Lyndsi

Hey Sista! Sorry that I haven't written you back. Haha. I am glad that you haven't given up on me yet. ITs easy though for you to write because you get to use a computer and I only have 30 minutes on the computer. ANyways, nothing too exciting is happening here. Just sitting here in the laundry room sweating.
Thats way funny you guys went camping. I can't believe you took the tent trailer out. I'll have you know the only reason we have that thing is because of me. :) Your daughter is out of control and your son will soon be going crazy. Mom said he looks like a Grandpa Hukill little balded chubby man.
I will be staying with my two companions for the rest of the time. They are way weird/funny. They argue so much wit heach other over the stupidest things. It's quite hilarious and annoying at the same time. But by the time you get this the new missionaries will have been here for a day, so hopefully they aren't weird or anything like that. Oh well. Almost down to one month. Time is slow/fast here. Some days its fast and others super slow.
I do sit-ups as well as everything else every night. I seriously don't know where all of the weight is going (he has gained 15 pounds he says) because I haven't had to change my belt or anything like that. Who knows. My facial hair is also coming in better since I shaave so often. Oh, and I am getting a hair cut today and am way scared for it. I haven't had a stranger cut my hair in forever. So I will send pictures after I get it cut.

PS. Our last name in Russian sounds perfect. It will be nice to not have that slaughtered.