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.