It's a Dangerous Business Frodo, Going Out Your Door...

Hallo! This is the last letter I am going to write from the MTC! It is Tuesday the 21^st, and we drive 
out to Auckland tomorrow morning right after breakfast. It has been fun but man I am ready to get 
out there.  Two of the guys in our district left this morning and one of them was going to leave as well but he is headed back to Tonga while he waits for his visa, and his flight was delayed by a lot. 

We have had some good experiences though. We went to the temple and it was awesome.  The other night we were all headed to bed after a draining devotional thing (We tried to stay awake but we were so tired), and when we all went back to our rooms, we heard loud noises from outside. When we looked out the window there were these HUGE fireworks. Everyone was excited, but us “yanks” really let our American show.

 One of the funniest things that has transpired was during one of our closing devotional thingies (elders and sisters go back to their respective halls and have one last little spiritual thought and business issues), and the zone leaders asked if there was any problems anyone had been having. Elder Moy, who has the most stereotypical Australian accent (he is the one who calls us yanks) just said quite loudly “yeah, our room is starting to smell like bloke?”. Man, with the way he said it and how tired we were, it was one of the funniest things I have ever heard. We have started to use “bloke” as a negative term for describing smells, as lots of the things here do smell like bloke from time to time.  Our room isn’t bad though…. 

So I had written down in my journal stories to tell you, but I don’t have it on me, so if there’s any that you REALLY should here, I will let you know. J I will say, the candy here is great. I don’t know if I would say better, just different in a really good way. The fruit though. I cannot even describe how much better just the canned fruit in the cafeteria is. I love it. 

I am excited to get out there tomorrow and experience more of it though. The weather here is pretty darn weird though. It has been pretty cold the last two days, but it is pretty warm today. But we have these humidity explosions. It is always pretty humid here (in the best possible way, I love it), but we will just have times where everything fogs up, like on our windows, and then is gone within the next ten minutes. I love it though. Otherwise, I would love to hear from you guys when you get the chance! Haha when everyone else opened up their email they had like 30 letters. I had 4. Good thing I am so emotionally detached. ;) I remain with high hopes and resolute determination. I plan on sending some pictures very soon, so if you have any questions about them, let me know. 
:D

Elder Clayton

PS: I had a question about what kind of food I have been eating so far. Most of it has been about the same as the food I have been eating in America, just with slight differences I can't explain. Like, we had hamburgers today(t'were amazing) but they were just slightly different. One of the biggest differences is the ketchup. They have Ketchup here, but it's weird. It seems slightly thicker and sweeter. I can't decide which I like better. Another thing is fruit that I mentioned. And as for the candy(or should I say: "lollies"), you have heard of Cadbury? Well here they are pretty much Hersheys. Everything to do with anything chocolate is Cadbury. What seemed like really fancy stuff in America is just normal, everyday chocolate here. It definitely seems less special. But still good! I love it, but there's honestly something about a plain Hershey's chocolate bar that I love. Something I thought was fun, and you probably will too, I have had fish'n'chips at least four times. Each time it was prepared different though. But it's still a funny thing cause it is probably one of the most stereotypical things about these countries though. Next time I talk to you, I will have been out in the field! But for now, see ya!!!!