Ok, so yeah, I'm 22 now! It's pretty awesome! It was great to have a birthday in the MTC (even if it was one of those really hard days that makes you cry in front of your teacher and your class...but whatever, it happens! Still gotta keep on keeping on!) I loved all the cards from everyone. And mom and dad, I LOVED your present! My zone did too! They all thought it was very cute and very me! hahahaha And it was awesome, the sisters in my zone threw a surprise party for me and this sister who turned 21 on the 7th. It was great fun!
So we just got back from the temple and while we were at temple breakfast (the mashisoyo highlight of the week) we ran into Sister Paul's mom and aunt! It was soooooo awesome! Her mom is seriously the cutest person on the face of the planet! It was so fun!
Well, in other news, my district has this mechanical dolphin that's been passed down for YEARS! Our teachers really kind of hate it, but when you're in one room all day every day doing the same thing all the time you need some sort of entertainment...and if that happens to be a cardboard dolphin that was made out of a Chirstmas present, has really old candy canes stuck to the back, and is pretty odd in basically all regards, it works! We also have this sticky octopus toy that we usually keep on the ceiling, a ball of crumpled up yellow paper that we use to play end of the day "district volleyball" in the classroom (it has now been replaced by the octopus...the octopus sounds funnier when you hit it and it doesn't hurt as much when someone accidentally hits it into your eye twice...I may have had that experience...maybe) and lastly, we have our lovely hebaragi (sunflower). We recently transported it to a really nice pot that Elder Finlinson's mom sent us and we have part of Alma 32 on a nice little card to go with it (also from Finlinson changnonim's mom). Well...we have this one teacher, Brother Wells, who has tried to throw away our toys a few times...but no worries, we always saved the day. But this week he just walked into the classroom and without saying anything just picked up the dolphin (which also had our octopus and our paper ball in it...don't worry, the hebaragi is safe and happy and growing about an inch a day...and it's just about to bloom!!!!!) and walked out. The Elders came in, saw our dolphin was missing and went on a mission to retrieve it. They found it in the trash (it was clean trash though) and they saved it and hid it...now our teacher thinks he finally got rid of the dolphin, but little does he know...we're resurrecting it our last week at the MTC...it will be most epic!
Ok...now for the concussion story. so, Thursday morning we were getting our room ready for cleaning checks. I was a little on edge because I hadn't been able to find this shirt that I wanted to wear for a couple days. Well, I went to make my bed and as I went to do that I hit my head on the bed frame of the top bunk and was pretty much automatically down on the ground holding my head and crying. I was down for a while but I got up eventually and finished making my bed and went off to breakfast (we got a "huzzah" on our cleaning checks by the way). We went to class and did that for about three hours. I was alright, a little dizzy and nauseous (I'd hit my head pretty hard...and if you know me...yeah, it makes sense) and during the coaching time with our teacher I had a really hard time remembering how to write things. My teacher and my companion suggested that I go to the clinic, so I did. They were full so we got shuttled to the urgent care clinic at BYU. when we got there I sort of fell out of the van. It was funny, because when we talked to the receptionist lady and I told her what had happened she said that they actually saw this thing a lot from missionaries...it didn't make me feel any less dumb :) Well, long story short...I gave myself a concussion from making my bed! Fun stuff!
Well I love you all and hope everyone is doing well. We got our first native last night and are leaving 3 weeks from yesterday...time is seriously zooming by now! Stay Awesome!
~Sister McClellan
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