Dear Mother!!
How are you? I hope all is well at the house, I am currently doing laundry and writing while I wait for it to finish! I sent you a letter yesterday so it should be getting there soon. I hope all is well. So far I have been introduced to the MTC. Wednesday we jumped straight into the work, after dropping off my bags at my room i went straight to a class where we started in on preach my gospel. It has been great. The spirit sure does reside here is much abundance. I LOVE IT!! The food is pretty good. You can be proud of me i have had salad every day (sometimes twice a day). I am not eating any real fatty foods like the doughnuts or anything.
Thursday was my first whole day. I spent the morning studying videos about people and what lessons should be taught to them (it is a really interesting project that the new york times is doing. they interviewed a ton of people asking them all sorts of questions) I love the time i get for personal study! I cannot express enough my gratitude for the teachings you have given me. Truly like Nephi I have been taught by goodly parents :)
My companion is great! Elder Burton has the same love for studying the Gospel and our companion study is very insightful. I have already grown to love him like a brother. I am glad for the long classes i had at asu. our classroom instruction lasts for 3 hours and a time and we have two or three classroom instructions a day. They have not really taught us a lot about spanish, we mostly have to teach ourselves during the language study and also using this program call TALL. It is basically a computer program that teaches us the lessons and words. There are many different activities, like flashcards to learn the words, translating from spanish to english, or vise versa. There are times when we have to listen to what is said and determine what phrase they said. there are other times where they give us a sentence in english and we have to say it in spanish (they have this really cool headset that we put on, it makes me feel like an airplane pilot or something cool like that, i will be sure to take a picture and send it to you.
I have meet my branch president, he is way awesome! On Friday I was fingerprinted for my first time!! they needed my prints for my visa. I like gym, i didnt get to have gym until friday and it felt so nice to finally run and exercise. It could be very easy to gain a lot of weight here. All we do is eat, sit, eat, sit, maybe sit some more. The instruction is great!
Oh back to the language! Thank you so much for the help when we studied spanish every sunday. It has greatly helped me!! I can help all the elders and i can already converse with the teachers. They all ask me if i took classes or something. I happily tell them that... mi padre servi'o en Argentina y el ensen'o espanol. I still have a lot to learn of course but what we did has greatly helped and been a wonderful blessing! Thank you dad, I love you. How is the family? How is the house? is it quiet? run into any technical problems? I apologize if my thoughts are random, i only have 30 min on the computer and there is the timer thing at the top of the screen that makes me feel like i only have so many seconds until the end of the world so i am just typing like crazy! How is David? Tell him i love the Dr. Schols he gave me, i love walking in my shoes. And my branch president commented on the tie he gave me!
So guess what mom! They gave me a set of spanish scriptures and a spanish preach my gospel, that means i have two sets of spanish scriptures and two sets of preach my gospel (both in english and spanish) I also asked for you to send some pictures of Jesus Christ so i can decorate my room, and maybe a picture of the first presidency or anything you have there at the house. Feel free to send snacks too hahaha jk! um... not sure what else to say, i'm trying to think under a time constraint and it is difficult. I love you so very much! how are the articulos de fe coming? i have started to memorize other scriptures in spanish and have not memorized any more. oh!
Dad, you are the best! I love you. I cannot express enough gratitude for the help, guidance, and teachings you have given me. Happy fathers day. You are the number one dad. and this is verdadero. I love you.
I love you, I am not home sick, i do miss you but the MTC feels like home. I am doing what i have wanted to do for years. That is being a representative of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am teaching His gospel, and loving every second of it. I am saturated with His spirit, and can not think of a happier or better place to be. yo s'e que el evangelio es vedadero, y tesifico que jos'e smith fue un profeta. s'e que Dios nos ama. I love you all so very much and want to leave you with a challenge. Peter teaches us that without charity we are nothing. Pray for charity everyday! It will bring the love of Christ in our life and invites more fully the spirit.
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