First MTC Letter

Hola eveybody!

Let me first say I miss you all like crazy. My pdays are on thursday so I went 8 days without one. But now theyll be every thursday from now on. The first day was crazy! Flying went fine but i am kind of a dummy and didnt eat anything (first meal of the day dinner on utah time). Got to the airport and there were missionaries all over the place coming in. Drove down in the shuttle with two elders and an hermana. She's actually in my district randomly enough. As soon as i steped out of the shuttle they grabbed me and my bags and asked a bunch of questions. I had to fight em off just to pay the shuttle driver. Then i got a host who ended up being Elder Quinn a guy from my ward at BYU who showed me around a little and got me my books took me to my teacher etc. He had lots of good advice and gave me a good idea of what I was in for and it was super awesome to see a familiar face. My teacher's name is Brother Wadsworth or maestro wadsworth. He is absolutely the man! I love him soooo much. He spoke all spanish for the first two whole days. I could sort of understand what he was saying but I still felt pretty lost most of the time. I was the first one there so I got to be with him by myself for a little. Then everyone eslse trickledd in and We did some simple spanish exercises. I got my Comp, his name is elder Christiansen, hes from sandy. we are a similar height he's a little thicker than me but not by a ton. Hes a golfer he went to brighton high school. We were both a little quiet at first but we've gotten pretty close in only a week. He's a good guy. hes going to Atlanta Ga there are 5 guys in my district going to mcallen and one guy going to calgary hahaha. Our four hermanas are going to guatemala in 3 weeks to that MTC one is serving in guatamala and the other three in panama. Our disctric is super awesome. Everybody gets along. In my residence it's me elder C my comp and elders Folsom and Bawden. *(Both going to texico). We have tons of fun but work hard as well. Folsom went to BYU and we get along really well. We have similar senses of humor. Bawden was in a ton of articles in like church news and KSL and other stuff because his best friend is handicapped and he ran track in high schiool pushing his friend with palsy's wheelchair. Man I am reunning out of time fast. You may have seen those articles or yiou could prolly find em. they also did St george marathon together. (when alie ran it) BTW alie is the only person who didnt dear elder me yet and this public acknowledgement is her punishment. Paras and Stef both dear eldered me too which was nice.

The first week has been nuts. We have taught four lessons in spanish to "nicolas" our investigator. The first one was bad it was friday and I just wrote stuff down and read it to him haha. But they get better every day. The fourth was our last and He gave us some english feedback afterwards. He said he was amazed at our progress and he couldnt even believe our fourth lesson was as good as it was. That felt nice. I study spanish all day. interspersed with personal study. fireseides devotionals. etc etc. We have heard from L tom parry ( i was in the overflow grrrr) there was 10 apostles there when he spoke because it was mission president weekend. Speaking of which I got paged down to see uncle Brian it was super nice of them. Got a good picture with both of them. They also played a movie for us ?????!!?!?!?!?!???!???!!!??!? the other side of heaven. because the mission presidents were taking over and they needed to do somehitng with us.

I see tons of people I know I see clarky J a bunch and Makade and lots of others. I got to spend like an hour and a half with clark waitining to get into a fireside,. Which was nice because our schedules are super different.

Ok five minutes left. I love you all sooooo much. Like I dont even think you can undertand but I know you all feel the same way. The church is true ladies and gentlemen. I feel the spirit stronger than I ever have. I am really trying to focus on growing closer to my saviour. He means absolutely everything to me. I love reading my scriptures I get bored or distracted surprisingly infrequently. I am soooo happy here. Dont get me wrong its really hard but I know that I am in the right place doing the rihgt thing. The book of mormon is the word of God it has a uncanny and unmatched ability to teach people the trutha about the savior and many other eternal truthes. 2 min!!! ummm ..,. ahh send me more letters haha I love them. Im going to start planning my letters better this is pretty scattered. I pray a lot here because I need it pretty bad. man I want to say soo much more. Im really not that good at the language but I am trynig hard. I know it will come. I can feel the spirit helping me. This will be one of the most experiences of my life and I can feel that in the first week already.

Love you all and my time is up!