Hey Family!!!!!!!!! So my P day is
on Thursday but we didn’t get one last week because it was only the first day
after we got here.
The MTC is SOOOO fantastic! First
off, I got called to be district leader ONE day after I got here!!!!! I am
district leader over another companionship of elders and 2 sister
companionships. My companion's name is Elder Richards. He's from Lehi and we
are both going to the same mission. He is sooooo awesome. We room with the
other set of elders under my district stewardship. Elder Ovard is from Boise
and Elder Taylor is from Sydney Australia! Isn't that awesome!!!!!!! The
Sisters or Hermanas are Hermana Healey from Taylorsville UT, Hermana Elton from
Eugene OR, Hermana Tollman from Vancouver Canada, and Hermana Phillips from
Logan UT! I have to go rotate my laundry, I'll be back. haha Love you all!!!!
Ok Sorry!!! So anyways. I have
learned more Spanish in the last week than i did the two years in high school
combined!!! I can already pray and give a simple testimony completely in Spanish!!!
We've already started teaching our first "investigator." We teach
completely in Spanish. His name is Eric. He volunteers to be an investigator so
we can practice teaching lessons. Not a single word of English is spoken. We've
taught him 3 lessons already. The Preach My Gospel Manual is literally second
only to the Book of Mormon and Bible. The entire thing is full
of Spiritual principles that could not be explained better.
We had a devotional on
sunday given by the director of public advertising or something for the
church. He talked to us all about the "I'm a Mormon" campaign
the Church has come out with and about LDS advertising in general. It was
soooo cool. He also talked about the Book of Mormon Play that's big right
now and how, despite the raunchiness of it, it has actually brought a lot of
investigators because people go see it, get incredibly offended, and
decide to see what the church's stance is on it. On Tuesday we had another
devotional given by....THE Richard G. Scott of THE Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles!!!! It was sooooo amazing! He talked all about
the importance of talking to our Heavenly Father through prayer and
the importance of actually praying out loud. He also talked about
how important missionary work is. Before he gave his talk, the
president of the MTC was reading an introduction for him so we could all know
more about him. Towards the end of it, the president said, "And even
though all of these things are important and fun to know about Richard G.
Scott, he leaned over to me before I stood up here at the podium
and said, Don't worry about all that stuff. Just tell them that I love my
Heavenly Father." How awesome is that!!!!! The entire room full of
the thousands of missionaries could barely breathe the entire time he was
there because of how awesome it was and how strong the Spirit was. I
sang in the MTC Choir and we sang Nearer My God To Thee right
before he spoke. When he stood up the first thing he said was,
"I've died and gone to Heaven. That was the most beautiful song
I've ever heard." HOW AWESOME!!!!! Anyways, as you can tell, I am having a
total blast.
Seth! You need to be careful with
that head. One can only take so many concussions in a life ha ha. I'm glad
you got to go to prom though. I hope it was a blast. Nathan, keep working
on those hands. You'll be starting X receiver before you know
it! Grantee!!!!! I hope you’re having fun in school!! Well guys my time is
running out so I better go. I love you all. Use Dear Elder to send letters
sometimes too. I get those right away then I can just send you letters back.
Love you all!!! Thanks for writing me!!!!!
Dad. Su Espanol es muy bueno. Keep it up haha!
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