Tere!

Hello,Well to start off this letter I heard some awesome news over Mothers Day. My sister in law Chelsea is pregnant. So I am going to be an uncle. I must say, I am pretty darn excited. Plus I have never held a baby so my time has finally come. haha. I am so excited for them. Well this week has been a bit better. I really enjoyed my split in Tallinn with the zone leaders. It was just nice to get out of Tartu for a while and have a change of scenery. I really hope I get to serve in Tallinn. I am actually in Tallinn today. We had to pick up Elder Elmers Id card so we came up for pday. Its really nice. Rainy though. I just realized I only have 11 months left. That isnt much time. I need to baptize people. We had a fun week teaching Vend Stahlhut. He is a member from Germany and owns a huge factory in Tartu. We got to go tour it and we are trying to prepare him to take his endowments out. So thats been really fun. I love that guy. He has the coolest house with my dream library in it. haha. I traveled alot this week. To pärnu, tallinn, and tartu. Back and fourth. It was long. But we did teach a way cool guy yesterday that liked what we taught him so that was cool. In Tallinn we taught a bunch of new kids and one guy from the Estonian island Saaremaa. Way cool. So it was fun to actaully teach some young cool people for a change. Tallinn was cool because I was the only one that knew Estonian and the other two new Russian so we had 3 languages between us and we were able to talk with everyone. Way crazy how Russian sounds like gyberish to me and Estonian is so clear. haha. I love it. Well I hope you guys have a great week. I will try not to get eaten to bad by masquitos. They are waaaay bad. haha. i love you. I can't wait to talk next week. Elder Boyce

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Hello,Well this week has kinda been a bummer. We got Jaked all week long. Everyday 3 or 4 lessons just didn't show up. So that was a little bit of a downer. Thursday we went to a school and we were guests in a religion class. So all the students just asked us questions and tried to get to know us, so that was really fun. I enjoyed it alot. They thought it was pretty funny when I said that I really miss carpet. They thought I was crazy. We tried teaching people all week but we did just alot of finding. One night we taught a way cool couple, and they said hey...go talk to our neighbor so we did. When we showed her the book of mormon she freaked out and told us it was from the devil. We talked with her a few more minutes and they she yelled at us in a non earthly language. It was way creepy, and she stopped and was just normal again. I could of sworn satan was coming through. So that was interesting. But I didn't feel scared or anything. So we just told her she was a daughter of god, and left. Knocking here is always interesting. Well the weather here has been awesome. 80's all week with rain at night. I love it. I get to go to Tallinn this week on splits so I am way excited. But nothing else to write so talk to you next week.
Elder Boyce

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Hello,
Well I have had a big week here. I was made District Leader over Tartu and then all of my district was transferred. So I am the only one here righ tnow in Tartu. It wasn't really a surprise to get called, but man there is alot of work to do. I am now just getting the hang of it. I am senior companion now too and my district is so young. I am the oldest missionary out. My companion has been out for 6 weeks. His name is Elder Elmer and he is from Las Vegas. He is way good at the language...way better than I ever was. So it is really fun. The other two elders are Elder McGavin and Elder Lane (whom I helped train). So they were white washed into the area. This is there 4th transfer each. So it has been a big change if anything. My Estonian has already improved just from Wednesday. I am speaking all the time now, and I am understanding members that I never thought possible. I am also paying bills and all this stuff in Estonian. So I think its safe to say that things are coming well. It has just been so busy though. Elder Elmer doesn't really have an opinion about anything yet and I am not used to planning days but its been good. We taught a bunch of lessons this week which was cool. Plus I have been working with a less active named Luule and she finally came to church. That was awesome. We were able to teach Liis, Peeter, and Kärt. It was so much fun. Kärt made us the best sushi I have ever had. We had a way good discussion with them about the church and it was just a really fun night. I love them. Plus, I could understand their estonian as well. haha. Its so crazy. Tartu has two baptismal dates. Hopefully three soon. But the two haven't come to church yet. So we are hoping. I have been calling some of my old contacts from back when I first lived here and I got hold of a guy that miraculously remembered me contacting him back in September. At the time he wanted to quit drinking, and he still wants too. So I have a meeting set up with him this week. So that was awesome. Well it is all going good! The work is booming. I am excited to see what this next transfer brings. It will be way fun.
Armastusega,
Vanem Boyce