Hola! Como estan! hahah
jk whats up!
So its now been exactly
two weeks since my arrival to the MTC! The MTC its a pretty great place! all
the buildings look the same and are all really close to each other that we
still get lost all the time! But it is a really nice campus, they have tons of
people hired to insure that on missionary service days we are doing all the
work so of course the yard and buildings are keep way nice right???
So everyone has been
asking about my companions, my district and zone. so my companion is elder
Tallen Tipton from St George Utah. We look kinda different but we are one in
mind and in spirit hah. He is a 6"5 Ball player is actually pretty
athletic for a tall dude. he isn’t your average 6'5 160lbs string bean, he is
like 200 lbs. so like he is still skinny but not that skinny if that makes
sense. me and him always can read each other’s minds and we always do well in
our lessons, he helps me with my Spanish because he had already taken like 4
years so he is pretty good, we both kinda have the same sense of humor and both
are for sure not class guys so we always find ways to entertain ourselves.
Everyone in my district has taken like 4-6 years of Spanish so i am a little
behind, but it is till awesome. I will get to that I a moment. My other two
companions that we share our room with are Elders Stoor and Anderson, Elder
Stoor is a really cool guy he is a little thicker but not really. 5'8 weighing
in at 185 lbs so just a little bigger then your 5'8 guys. like me...... well he
is from Cedar and was way into wrestling his high school years so we talk
wrestling all the time. so it always makes for a good convo. He is one of those
guys who always has a way powerful testimony and talks for a WAY long time
haha. Elder Anderson is from Austin Texas, Height 6'3 and weighting
in at 196lbs. so yes you guessed it a I am technically the smallest
member of our little gang. Elder Anderson use to be
inactive when he was younger and over the last couple year has come
back and has learned alot for his trials. He is into a lot of stuff I am into. Him
and I always go lift weights while Elder Stoor and Tipton go
play ball. he works out just like Ty Porter. He is a Bicept and
back kinda guy, then a chest and tricep kinda guy hahah so we don’t do the same
work outs haha, but at least he will go right? When my chess board comes
in Elder Anderson claims he can throw down... we will see. hahah so we eat
a ton here! like a lot of calories and a lot of sitting
around, its good we get a hour, but still... so i now am
weighing in at a soild 167lbs and same height haha so I am filling
in(: but don’t worry I’m still looking good! just not as skinny hahah. We have
5 hermana, sisters in our district. We don’t talk to them that much but they
are pretty cool. Hermana Fischette from New York, Hermana Piggott from Provo,
Hermana Anderson from Seattle, Hermana Wilcox from Draper, and Hermana Tracy
from Kansas City Missouri. When I first got here there were 3 districts but one
left and now there is just us two, but we are getting a new one today, fresh
meat. ah jk But I am good friends with the other sets of elders in the other
district. Elder Kno is on the BYU football team and is from Ohio and
is a total athlete and me and him lift and run together everyday. Elder Jackson
his companion is completely different but super cool. A way smart total nerd
who never played a sport in his life and went to Bingham High school hah
but they are way cool and get along way good. The other three are Elder Fuero, Heslop
and Seeley. They are all way awesome
guys.
So mom you would be proud
of me i have been playing the piano for our branch on Sundays and
have been trying to teach Elder Tipton how to play sweet hour of prayer,
it is a working progress, but he is coming along just fine. also we got to
go to rite-aids store because my companion was sick and we bought
alot of stuff to have some fun. Some of those things include three tennis
balls which I have been really immersed in juggling in my free time, I’m
getting way good. I’m trying to teach my companions, as well is a work in
progress. But they will get it one day.
So my language studying
is going way good! I’m still not a pro but I am for sure learning every day! we
have taught 7 lessons in Spanish already! most of the time we just nod at what
they are saying and keep talking hahah but actually we are getting pretty good
at understanding them haha. I can say most everything I want to say but I
know it comes out as caveman talk/Asian who doesn’t know how to conjugate.
hah the native speaker missionaries here call the "white rapper"
hahah its super funny. But all this will come with time i guess.
The food here is
actually good! A lot of people here complain and murmur about the
food but I just refer to them as Lamen and Lamuels because I always try to
remind them that at my home we never had any food to munch
on hahaha. So that way I am slowly but surely gaining some
weight.
I see lots of
missionaries here that I knew from the old world it’s awesome to
see them all here. it’s hard to refer to them as elders and sisters and
not give them all hugs.
We have devotionals by
people twice a week, I haven’t seen anyone from the 12 yet but a lot of 70 and
other way cool speakers.
The spirit here is unlike
anything you will have ever experienced in your life, unless of course you have
been here. I am anxious to get into Mexico though.
Well peace out everyone,
Mom and Dad Forward this out to whoever. Thanks so much for all the emails, letters,
and packages I have got I love them so much and they help me with so much here!
As they say.....
Another day another
dollar. Celestral Dollars(:
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