Hello Everyone!
Starting week 3 (really week 2 but the MTC is weird)
at the MTC! Pday is seriously like MTC
Christmas. Portuguese is coming more and more everyday. I have the missionary
purpose almost completely memorized and now I am working on the first vision in
Portuguese. The 4 missionaries in our district who got their visas left this
morning for the Brazil MTC, including my companion. So I now have a new companion, Elder Hammond.
I'm getting pretty used to the idea that I will most
likely be reassigned. I'm really feeling
New York! This week I received 3 packages!!!! One from my lovely parents, one
from my wonderful grandparents and one from Daphnie, with swig cookies and
other goodies! Awesome to have people
close to be able to drop me stuff.
Blessings.
I had the opportunity to go do a session at the
Temple last Tuesday and I will again today.
It is such a blessing and is relaxing.
On Saturday we had a substitute Portuguese teacher from Mozambique and
he is one of the coolest guys I've met here at the MTC. He really en-grained in us how special and
important the calling of a missionary is and how we shouldn't take being a
representative of Christ for granted. Very powerful lesson. Speaking of Mozambique, my zone is supposed
to get 20 new missionaries in and I'm pretty sure that includes Andrew Walton
and Brenna Thomas! So Exciting!!
I hope all my friends out on missions are doing
great right now! I get to see Elder Slavens like every other day which is so
awesome. We've also been having some
great devotionals including one on Sunday stressing the importance of
companionship. Mostly on the mission but also in life we need companions
including spouses, family and friends.
Can't make it alone in this world!!
Oh, also I would like to mention that I started reading the New
Testament since I realized I've never really sat down and read the Bible all
the way through. I honestly didn't even
realize how awesome the New Testament really is. Jesus Christ is amazing...learning about his
life has brought me so much comfort this week. Anyways, that's it for this
week!
Love you guys and your letters/emails.
Hope all is well!
