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In less than a week I can see how much I'm going to love it and how hard I must work because of the short eighteen months I will have. I can truly sense why people would jump at the chance to return to the mission field.

This morning we began our actual classwork. Our morning teacher is Bruder Doryl Jensen. We pretty much covered the first lesson this morning between 7:30 and 12:00 with a few small breaks. It's great to be back in the classroom. Everyone in our district has had one (me) or more years of German, so we're really able to help each other out. We had retention from 11:00 to 12:00. I worked with Bruder Williams and Bruder Hitchcock.

After lunch (it always seems like we're eating) we went back to class with our afternoon teacher, Bruder David Stott. He will be good too, but he wasn't quite as outgoing as Bruder Jensen was. We were out of class at 3:30 to meet with Bruder Edgar Wolferts, our zone counselor, about mission rules. He is truly a humble, kind man. I feel safe under his direction. I think perhaps the two hardest rules for me to keep will be to write letters (few) only on Saturday and to avoid visiting with friends. But I know I can keep them with the Lord's help and that I will be blessed for it.

We were supposed to have a proselyting meeting, but the teacher didn't show up. So on to dinner, then this . . . Our district decided to begin living our language already. We know enough that we can do it if we want to. And besides, my companion already has to live her language since she has been here four weeks already.

We had a lovely zone meeting with a couple of talks auf Deutsch and one auf Englisch. Then we new