AHHHHHHHHH!!! I have so much to say in so little time! I will start with a disclaimer (I think) there is a huge red flashing timer at the top of my screen right now telling me I have 25 minutes to write this email, so forgive me for mispellings and grammer mistakes, 1) I'm jnow starting to think phionetically because of spanish so i don't klnow how to spell in English anymore, 2) I'm stressed out about the terrifying timebomb flashing at me so I might forget things, in which case I will definitely include them in my written letter which I will send off today as well.
I love you all so much. I wish I could put into words what it means to have everyone's support back home while I'm here doing God's work. This has definitely been the happiest, most exciting, enlightening, inspiring, and humbling week of my entire life.
Number one, the trip.
I never thought how much I would appreciate having Johnny on the flight up ehre with me. The flight was such a weird experience, taking an airplane into the next chapter of my life. it was nice to have my best friend sitting next to me :) laughing about the guy sitting in front of us wearing a shirt that said "I've tried Polygamy" ha ha
Numero dos, mi compenero
Elder Porter... is awesome! I swear they do companionships half by inspiration and half by height here at the MTC. Elder Porter and I could share clothes if we wanted! Elder Porter is from Mapleton Utah, about 15 minutes away from here, and is also going to Hermosillo! He's extremely talkative, enthusiastic, reallllly easy to get along with, and very very friendly. He did a year at Utah state and doesn't kno0w what he wants to do with his life any more than anyone else here does.
I have grown such a testimony of companionships. The gospel was meant to be taught two by two. It is so nice to have a good friend to talk to, study with, and just have fun with.
Numero tres, Mi Llamamiento(calling) y clase de espanol
SO, here at the MTC everything is organized just like the mission field! We have companions and districts and zones and branch Presidents etc. My zone is AWESOME. Each zone has their own classroom where we basically keep all of our stuff *(spanish scrips, textbooks, PreachMyGospel, etc) this is where we do all of our studying (personal, companionship, and language) we have a teacher that comes to our classroom and teaches us how to be missionaries in Mexico! We have two teahcers, hermana gigena y hermano McFadyen, both are excellent return Missionaries who teach us both how to speak spanish and teach the gospel like Christ.
Spanish class is SO FUN! It has now been exactly a week and some high school spanish is definitely coming back.
I can pray, and share my testimony in spanish and I'm working on vocabulary and phrases to share the first lesson about our loving heavenly father, teh gospel blessing las familias y the restoration of the gospel.
The language is definitely the hardest part of it all, but it still manages to be the most fun.
OH and I totally forgot! I am the district leader! So I conduct interviews and keep track of all the companionships in the district(there are about 6) and return and report to the Branch Pres.
quatro,nuestro horario.our schedule
Every SECOND of the day as a missionary is booked. We have to be up at 6:30 (usually 6:15 not only to get a shower before everyone else but to turn it on and wait the 5-10 minutes that it takes to warm up from -10 to 32 degrees
we then go down to the district classroom, sing a hymn, and start our hour of personal study, hour of comp study, and hour or more of lanuguage study. Somehwere in there we have breakfast then come back and meet our teacher in the classroom, sing another hymn, pray, and learn how to be missionaries for 6 hours or so.
There is "missianary directed time" throughout the day when elder porter and I are able to do more comp. and language study and contact people arount the MTC campus and basically do whatevr we want as long as it's productive and gospel/language related.
I now have dos minutos so I'll try to hurry up!
we meet and plan at 9 oclock, have quiettime at 1015 and lights out at 1030.
so. busy.
on sunday nights and tuesday nights there are devotionals!! Tuesdays are when the big guns come, like general authorities etc. yesterday Elder Ganzalez and his wife came!
I now have under a minute so i just want to say I LOVE you all so mucha dn look for my letter!
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