Where does it feel like you are?
I don't really know. I would probably say the town, although right now, we really don't live in it, it's more like in the country area. However, on Saturday we'll be having fun moving yet again, to a place that actually is in town, so that'll be good--we'll be closer to everything, and it'll be a lot safer to be biking around, especially at night. I don't really know what place in Oregon to compare where we live to, sorry. Monmouth is probably pretty close, though.
When do you get mail?
Mail is kind of odd. It gets sent to the Mission offices, and then they send it to our current residence. The problem is, though, that they don't exactly have our correct address right now. We went to a family for dinner on Saturday(?), and they had some mail from both sets of grandparents for me. That was odd. We'll give them a call though, hopefully the package you guys sent will make its way to me before it gets too cold.
Who lives with you in the house you live in?
The only other people who are living with us in the house right now are the owners, a couple from the ward. He used to be the Bishop in the ward, so he knows a lot about a lot of people in the ward, which has been really nice.
Do you have your own space?
We share the kitchen with them, but we haven't really been using it at the same time very much. He gets up and leaves right about when we wake up, and she sleeps quite a bit later, so we don't share breakfast time, lunch is usually separate too, and dinner has usually been at other member's houses. So everything's been working out fine.
Do you really ever unpack?
I unpacked more here than the first place we lived, but I've still got quite a bit in my suitcases. Supposedly we'll be staying in our new place for like the rest of my training (~9 weeks), so I'll probably unpack fully then.
And, what do you know about where you'll be moving to?
They're an older couple. They're also both converts--he shared a little bit of his conversion story with us yesterday, as we got a ride from him. Apparently he was raised Catholic, and although he knew the church was true (his wife had converted quite a while before), he was afraid that his parents would be upset if he joined the church. So, after a while, after his Dad had died, in fact, he asked his Mom if they'd be offended if he joined the church. She told him, "Your dad and I thought you'd joined years ago!". It just goes to show, I guess.
Anything else?
btw I finally remembered something I wanted to share with you since I've been in the MTC.
There's this thing on nytimes.com called "1 in 8 million", which I think profiles folks in NYC. It's basically just some slideshows with narration from the person they're profiling playing, but it was super cool. They showed us some in the MTC, and basically asked us how we could try to teach the person who was being profiled in the video. I would encourage you guys to check it out, it was cool.
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