First day was tough because I started crying
when I hugged my family, but Elder Lerose picked me up and totally
distracted me. He's learning mong and going to some of those boring
states up north, I can't remember which, but he was awesome, and I've
been able to see him around lately. We got to our classroom and we met
our district and companions. My companion is Elder Nebeker, he's from
Rosevelt, but he went to utah state for a year, so he's nineteen. He's a
little more mature than me haha, but he's sick, he's way chill and he
played baseball and basketball and snowboarded and ping pong:) The rest
of our district is tight, we have Wilde and Wagner who are going to
philly with us! they are in our room too, so we are all boys! Wilde is
from san fran and he is so tight, he's pretty good and ball too! I'm
stoked i get to go to philly with him. Wagner played lacrosse for
syracuse, so he talks to me a lot about that whether i want to or not.
Then we have Bell and Roberts, Hunter and Wylie who are going to Montana
Billings, and Bushman and Jordan who are going to Tallahasse Florida! (
Chad will love that!) It's weird how you throw 10 elders in a room, who
are pretty much not alike at all and somehow they all become friends.
We also have another district with elders and sisters going to the exact
same missions as us and we've gotten way close to them. I'm gonna be
honest, the food schedule here sucks, i eat dinner at like 4:30, so I'm hungry every night and the food isn't too good anyways. The best thing about monday was eating a hot pocket at 9:30
at night, they have a vending machine in our residence and a ghetto
microwave, so you know I spend a lot of time there! They don't even have
plates so I cooked it on cardboard :):)
Anyways
All these days are blending, but we've been teaching an investigator
named Jim, who is really our teacher, but he is a hardcore actor, so
it's been tough. We straight up bombed the first visit, it was awful,
round two was better though. We also have an investigator named Sydney,
in these visits we don't know if they are members or not. She's an older
lady and loves family search, and every time we brought up something in
the bible she corrected us, because she knew way more than us. We
visited with her, and just ended by bearing our testimony of the book of
mormon, and I honestly thought we did alright.
We
pray so much here it's nuts, but i like it! You also play the best
basketball in the mtc, I know that forsure. I've seen pretty much
everyone that's here, all the elders in my district joke about how
everytime we aren't in class I find someone I know haha. One thing I
love about the mtc is the socialness, you can go up to someone, ask
where they are from, where they are going and talk for at least a half
hour! Last night I got to talk to elder parrish, who played basketball
for woodscross, I didn't know him before but we talked for a long time
about davis county, and it was nice to talk to someone who knew what
goes on there!
Okay so everyone told us make it
to Sunday, you'll be okay. It's so true. Sunday was amazing. I've never
loved it so much before. Just the whole familiarity of the sacrament
felt nice in this strange world called the mtc, and the talks and
lessons were great. One thing I thought was interesting, was our branch
president Hodges fell asleep on the stand during sacrament. No one is
perfect and I really needed to see that because I was also tired and
needed a quick nap haha! Then we had a bunch of time for meetings and
time with our district, then we had a devotional with a general
authority in charge of the MTC and I want to say his name was Elder
Allen, but I could be wrong. What I got out of it is look forward, and
don't look in the "rearview mirror". They show a film on sunday nights
so we watched The Character of Christ, by Elder Bednar. Hands down
amazing. I wish everyone could see it, but I hear you can't find it
anywhere other than the mtc. It motivated me so much, we need to stop
worrying about ourselves and turn to christ, and serve others first.
Loved it. We said goodbye to our Elder Bednar (jeff) that night, I can't
believe he's been here since June 24th lol. This morning we got to go to the temple. I just loved it. That's all I can say, it was amazing.
I'll
add some pictures of me and the boys from home, and my district, elder
nebeker is the one sitting down right in the middle of the picture!
Things
are good here, I'm starting to like it more. I hope you all are doing
good at home! I miss you all a ton. And I have one request, if you have a
picture with me, if you could send it to my mom so she could make me a
photo album that would be awesome. It's tough telling stories about
people and not being able to show them instagram or whatever and I'd
just like pictures from home anyways! I love you all, keep doin good
things back at home, write me if you'd like and I leave next tuesday to
philly so this will be my first and last email from the mtc, and I don't
know when pday will be! Talk to you all soon!
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