Hello family,
I am excited to finally write from the MTC. This
place is amazing so far, I don't really know where to begin. My
companion's name is Elder (Starszy) Tingey from a little town just
outside of Boise, Idaho. He is a neat guy and really focused on learning
and working hard. We were made Zone leaders the second day here and
will be for the next three weeks, which adds a lot of pressure to an
already busy schedule. I am confident that we will do a great job
though, we have a really good companionship. We are in a room with 4
elders; me, Tingey, Weir, and Cieslak. Weir is hilarious, everything he
says makes us laugh. Cieslak is also a really neat guy, he has a lot of
great insights and we are a pretty tight knit group. Our district is
made up of 10 elders and 1 solo sister. The companionships are; Neuner
& Wilson, Weir & Cieslak, Baranowski & Harris, Vernon &
Garfield, Tingey & I, and our solo sister, Siostr Packard. I've been
told that this is a very large district and we are all going to the
Poland Warsaw mission. In my opinion we have one of the tightest and
most dedicated districts in the MTC, and we have only been here less
than a week.
Gym time has become one of my favorite activities
(shockingly), we have done a lot of soccer (we lost to the Czechs once
or twice, but we are getting better), and some sand volleyball which has
actually become my favorite sport. We got to watch The Other Side of
Heaven on Saturday with the whole MTC which was really cool. The Sunday
services were some of the most spiritually uplifting meetings I have
ever been in. We watched an old BYU talk given by Elder Bednar titled
Character of Christ. If you can find that one online, I highly suggest
that you watch it. Oh, and I forgot to mention that we have 2 other
elders in our district that were left over from the last group because
one of them had pneumonia, but they are expected to leave us this week.
Their names are Russeller and Deshazer (the one with pneumonia), and
they were each called to go to Leeds, England Polish speaking. They are
great guys and have been helping us with the language and learning the
ropes around here.
The food is not terrible, but it is pretty average
cafeteria stuff. Meal times have been crazy and will be for the rest of
this week because they have closed off half of the cafeteria for the new
mission president training that is happening at the MTC now. They said
1/3 of the mission presidents in the world are being replaced by this
group (that is like 110 men and their wives). Plus there are general
authorities in there with them. There is supposed to be an apostle
speaking to us tomorrow, so I hope that we can get seats int he main
room and watch it in person.
Our Polish teachers name is Siostr Stay,
she is an RM from Poland, and we are teaching an investigator named
Maciej in very broken Polish. The language is super difficult, and we
haven't had our teacher since Thursday because she went on a weekend
vacation, she should be back today, hopefully. We teach Maciej again
tomorrow and haven't learned any new Polish so I hope that she teaches
really well. I've been told that the spirit speaks broken Polish so I
just have to do my best and let him teach.
I have gotten a few pictures
but don't think I can upload them. I will mail a card home when I get a
few more pictures. This place is crazy, we are learning at such a rapid
pace and there is practically no down time, which is good I guess.
How is everyone doing good at home? How are the funeral
arangements going? How's Erik doing? Tell everyone I love them, and that
this place is awesome and I am having a great time.
I
don't think I need anything at home, I have bought a couple of things
(notebooks and Polish books) here and they have everything I would need.
Sorry, I am out of time. Love you all again.
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