Thank you so much for that beautiful thought! Super bien! I've decided I'm just going to write this one email and ask you if you could post them on FB and forward them to friends and family. At least until I get out on the field. How is everyone doing? I'm halfway into the MTC experience..I think actually more than halfway! I can't wait to get to Las Vegas, but I know I still have a lot to learn. I got a package slip 2 days ago, but I wasn't able to pick it up until today, so I'll do that before lunch. I always get excited about a package! I don't know if you got my letter about DearElder.com? ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE READING THIS: Go to DearElder.com if you want to write me! Anyone can and I can receive them the same day.
Anyway, we had another devotional last night (every Sunday and Tuesday) by Brother Stephan B. Allen. He was hilarious and talked about expectations we may have had prior to entering the MTC and understanding that it's not easy, but worth it. And also that it's okay and normal to feel depressed or scared sometimes. It doesn't make us evil, as he put it. Getting a good seat at the devotionals is crazy. Everyone else in my district is perfectly content with sitting in the overflow, but my companion and I would rather be in the room where all the action happens, so we push our way through the crowd every time, participating in inappropriate body contact. It's worth it, though.
You should see how many missionaries have friends waiting for them at the temple on our Sunday temple walks. Mostly sister missionaries! It's kind of frustrating to see people breaking the rules like that, and then it makes me realize, so many people at the MTC know each other! One of my roommate's entire high school population is in the MTC right now! On our very first day, all of the new missionaries gathered together for a devotional and President Roach called out different states and countries and we would stand up if our hometown was called. I'm pretty confident I was the only one from Florida. Anyway, he named off state after state and people stood up here and there...and then it got to Arizona and there was a significantly higher number, and then Idaho, and when he finally said Utah, BAM! Everyone in the room shot up. I met two sister missionaries in the bathroom the other day who are going to be serving in the Tampa Florida mission. They asked me what the weather was like and I told them what ward I'm from. So you might be having them over for dinner sometime!
I have a letter I'm working on writing, so it will get to you eventually. The mail is very slow going out... but happy birthday, mom and dad!
I can't send you pictures yet, but you can send me pictures, so send me pictures!!!
Again, TO ANYONE READING THIS: DearElder.com! and if you want my address and can't find it, ask mi familia.
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