Two Months into our Mission

We are two months into our mission, still at the MTC and in language 6 hours a day. I thought I would fill you in on our daily schedule, just to let you know:
We start out class at 9:00 am every day. We have a native Mongolian Tutor for two hours, she helps us with grammar, tasks, words, phrases, vocabulary and word endings - love those words endings!?! She gives us approximately 2 hours of homework also. We have 3 hours for homework and lunch. Then, at 2:00 we have a Guide come in for 2 hours in the afternoon, she doesn't speak Mongolian. For an hour she guides us, helping us learn how to study and use the materials, CD's and books, we received. An hour of that time a volunteer comes in, usually a return missionary, they do alot of role playing with us (my favorite thing - not!!), and help us practice speaking and listening. Class ends at 4:00. We are pretty tired by then!
We come home to - more studying, scriptures and so on! Jody is good to keep doing the cooking and cleaning, but Dad still likes to putter outside and is trying to winterize things. He and Garry went to Scofield last Saturday and winterized the cabin.
This week has been a long week - we started a new task, "Make a Contact", I felt a little overwhelmed with all the new, and BIG, LONG words, one had 17 letters! But, we are learning, and they keep telling us we are doing really good, and we can see improvement! We can even understand some of the conversation - if they talk slow! They told us today that we have received more language training than any couple - ever, at the MTC, that is because of the visa's! So that probably means they are learning on us! But, that is OK! We're grateful they are willing to do all of this, I imagine it is costing them some money.
Two other couples entered the MTC on Monday, it looks like they too will be on delay. Sister Lasson, they left 2 weeks before we were scheduled to leave in August, emailed us and said that two of the couples in Mongolia had gotten sick and went home early, so they are now short 5 couples and 13 young missionaries...they are anxious to get us there, too.
The travel office told us that the Mongolian Govt., still has not issued the letters of invitation - once they do it takes 2 weeks to process them - I guess someone hasn't heard of faxing, emailing or something!
We are so grateful for something to do and somewhere to go everyday. The Lord is aware of us and we have felt of His love and protection - All is Well! Take care of each other and we Love You!