I leave to Malaga tomorrow morning at 7! I´m so excited! they´re giving me some time to write now because I won´t be getting a p-day most likely this week... But I can´t wait to find out where I am going and I hope everyone is doing great back at home!!!

Hello! Final week at the MTC and we get the boot on out of here!  I'm excited to go out into the field!  We leave Tuesday morning.  And the president of the MTC said he thinks that the P-day in the Malaga Mission is Monday so I probably won't write next week at all.  But I've had so much fun here at the MTC!  I've gotten to know everyone here even all the teachers and everything! I didn't know of one person when i showed up and now I have friendships that will last throughout and after the mission!

 

But this week what has really stood out to me is how  the Book of Mormon and the Bible support each other.  Lets be real we don't really pick up the bible like we do the Book of Mormon.  The Book of Mormon should definitely be first on our study priorities!  But the bible is so amazing as well!  I've gotten to love the scriptures here in the MTC!  They are so awesome!  Not only are they cool and interesting for historic purposes but are so amazing and they can answer all the questions you have!  I love all the scriptures and I wish I had read them all before the mission! But scriptures are awesome i love reading them!

 

I am so excited to go out into the field!  Apparently people in Southern Spain speak insanely fast and it will take me a while to get used to!  But I hope my spanish sky rockets once I get into the mission field!  My teachers are saying that I'll be fluent in no more than 3-4 months.  I hope that is true!

 

Only a couple more days here in the MTC!  It's been great getting to know the people here and it's time to get the boot into the field!  I'll let you guys know where my area is of course!  There is a sister in the MTC is best friends with an Elder in Malaga and she said last week for his p-day his district went paint balling! So hopeully I'll get to do stuff like that on my p-days! love you all!

Hello everyone! My week has gone great! Last p-day we got to go to downtown Madrid and walk around all the shopping malls it was so great! It´s so fun at this MTC on p-day we get to go and see the city!  This p-day after lunch we are going to the Prado museum! One of the most famous museums and I get to go! Even though I don´t really care about the arts haha it will be fun to experience it!  I get along with everyone great here at the MTC it´s so fun that I know everyone here.

It´s amazing how this MTC was not how I expected at all.  A bunch of the sisters here are from Utah but I´m the only Elder in the MTC from Utah which amazes me.  I´m getting to know a lot of different people.  The other elders are from Arizona, Florida (my companion), Canada, UK, Ukraine, and Russia! The Russians and Ukrainians are leaving after this week but they´ll be replaced with native Spaniards! I can´t wait to impress all the natives with my Spanish!  Jk I won´t haha. But the Spanish is going good, I can understand about 70 perect of what a person says when they speak slow, and I get my point across when talking!  I hope I´ll be able to communicate well with the native Spaniards when they come next week. 

I love it here though! It´s so great to be here! And conference was amazing! Hearing all the talks while being a missionary was a special experience! Sister Marsh from my district is a granddaughter of Elder Nelson from the 12.  And his talk was during 1 the 2 sessions that we got to here live! So it was so great to be with her when she got to hear her grandpa speak live! 

Most of the people here are doing good! There was a sickness that went around and almost everyone felt some effects from it.  I felt sick for about 3 hours, and after one of the classes I went in the bathroom and threw up… But after I did I felt good and I´ve felt great ever since! 

There are a few people in the MTC who are really struggling with the language.  Everyone struggles a little bit, but the language will come to everyone, some just faster than others haha. A lot of people here feel a lot of stress but I don´t know why there literally is no need to stress.   I try to tell people that are stressing out that the language will come you just have to be diligent and not waste time and things will go into place! 

I love it in the MTC, most the Spanish speakers here got their calls in April like me! So I´m not by myself in getting called later than expected haha.

This week has been really fun! I was really tired the first week because of the 8 hour difference and also since I was used to sleeping in until 11 every morning for the previous 5 months haha.

But after I wrote last week we got to go to downtown Madrid!!! It was so fun. I took some pictures if I have time I´ll send them today. But Spain is so great! I absolutely love the accent. Spain Spanish >>>> Any other spanish. I am really trying hard to pick up the accent speaking with the ¨th¨ sound. My spanish is going good when I teach lessons to practice investigators I can pretty much get across the whole message. I struggle here and there and I also struggle understanding people when they talk to me but that will come in time.

MTC is going good! We said goodbye to the Portuguese, Russians, and French (the one elder my companion haha). It was sad to see them go but it´s ok they all have the best testimonies and will be great missionaries. As those missionaries left we got a bunch of native Russians to replace them. They are all really intimidating because a few of them are 6´2¨6´3¨over 220 pounds I would say. And also they are Russian which is just scary, and the only time they laugh is when I try to pronounce their names... I haven´t played sports with them yet but I´m confident when I do I will establish my dominance over them lol. They speak a little English some better than others but it will be fun to get to know them!

But also I got a new companion when Elder Pien left. His name is Elder Moore he is great! He was in the provo MC for 2 weeks waiting for his visa.  But he finally got it and came at the perfect time!  If he didn´t come my companions would be two guys from another district.. So he came which is good!  So we teach practice lessons to investigators and before he came I would teach with two of the sisters in my district.  It was fun but it was just kind of weird to teach missionary lessons with my two female companions haha.  But now that Elder Moore is here I can feel normal when teaching practice lessons!

 So I´m lots of fun and today we´re going to go to a mall! I don´t know which  one but I´ll for sure take some pictures!  And i´m going to get my haircut for the first time today which is weird because I thought they´d make me cute it the second I got here.  I´m pretty sure right now I have the longest hair out of any missionary in the world.  Seriously though haha when I pull my hair down the front of my face it goes past my eyes haha so definitely in need of a cut.

But my favorite part here at the MTC is on Saturdays we get to be real missionaries! We go to the park and walk around and talk to people.  The park is unbelievably pretty it´s amazing.  It´s also so big there´s no way that I will be able to see the whole thing the 6 times I go to the park! So we get there at about 10:30 or 11 and we teach people until 12.  AT 12 all the missionaries at the MTC meet at one of the fountains in the middle of the park and we sing for about 15 minutes! It´s really fun!

I hope everything is going good for you guys!!