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Hello Family! 

Another week. 

First of all we found the cream soda tree! There is a tree on MTC campus that smells like cream soda and we found it. Second, I have officially spread dobby knuckles to most of the MTC - just for my friends Connor and Jackson. Seriously I got everyone doing the dobbys. Its a hit. Started TRC this week which is when return missionaries come in and you teach them a lesson as if they were members from your country. You just go ask them how they are doing and share a little thought with them but its awful because the teachers try to help you understand but at TRC they just try to rub in your face you know nothing. It's sort of a slap in behind but its good for us. We have another one tonight so wish us luck. Sister Clark (not my companion but 1 of the 4 czech sisters) and are like the same person and this week we discovered we both know pretty much every line/song from spongebob. We quote it all day in czechlish (czech and english). We have also started juggling every gym time so we have 40 days now to get to 100 juggles in a row. Let's see what else. WE STARTED CASES! Holy cow, now that I've been here for 3 weeks I can tell you a little bit about the language. So the alphabet is the same but most of the letters make different sounds so we learned most of it over again, so if anyone asks us how to pronounce something in english its wrong because we have erased the English alphabet from our brains. Czechs basically talk like caveman.. so if we do speak english we try to speak caveman. For example instead of I am going to go get lunch they say I get lunch. Cases are kind of like conjugating nouns and adjectives that completely change the context of the sentence. Pretty legit stuff. In a way it makes more sense but everything we've learned so far just changed because of it. We knew it was coming because we kept asking the teacher why do the words keep changing on us?! and they kept saying později, později (later). Then about 2 days ago bratr knapp just walked in, taught us the 1st four cases and left. We sat there quiet for a second and then i said "bratr knapp just crapped on our heads and left". then we just stared at the wall of cases for a solid hour saying nothing. like all things it will come with time. Elder Needham actually wrote on the board "and these were the last words he wrote" and pretended he left the MTC the next day. In other news I've reverted to doing TALL standing up because my my butts about to concave. we play soccer in the hallways during přestávka and its been better since we started doing that. After breaks bratr mullen walks out and herds us in saying "Jsem dobrý pastýř".. i am a good shepherd.. ?  I made my language goal: 1000 words by new years and finish the grammar book by October. DO WORK. Probably best moment of the week my companion and I went outside for companionship study to get some fresh air and this little bird came write up in front of us and started eating cheetohs that had fallen on the ground. HE HAD A CHEETOH MUSTACHE. hahaha. We made a friend here who is serving a mission at the MTC and is from czech republic! He is the nicest guy. Has some disabilities and is a total champ. We sit with him a lunch and try to speak czech. His name is Elder žhaourek and he became a convert at age 20 and now is serving a mission at 25. He tells us all about the czech people and culture. He gets us pumped to get out of here... which is sometimes hard because we are here for 6 more weeks. Anyways times up. Sending my love to Nicaragua, Russia, Europe and California. I guess its true when they say peoples lives dont pause when you go on a mission. More true for my family than others but thats why i love ya. 

Sestra Holland