MTC Week 10
Hello again! It was a great week here in the mtc, one more until I
leave for Russia!! Very exciting. Thanks again for the dearelders and I
got your package thanks alot! I sent you guys my sd card today but I
couldn't think of much else to send.
It was fun talking to Amy on Monday! I had so much more
I wanted to talk about but I froze up when you answered haha. I could
have talked for a bit longer but oh well, one more week. I forgot to
tell you I got my travel plans! woo hoo! My flight leaves SLC at 8
o'clock I'm pretty sure. and we leave the mtc at 5:00. So I am planning
on calling you sometime between 6:15 and 7:30.
At 8 we fly from SLC to NYC and then only have about an
hour layover time there so I doubt I'll be able to call you then
because that's not a whole lot of time. Plus I guess I'm the 'travel
leader' so I will have to be on top of finding the gate etc. Then from
NYC we fly straight to Moscow. Moscow Russia!! And from what I
understand we will have 12 hours in Moscow and we may go see red square
or something then fly in a smaller plane to Rostov. Rostov Russia!! And
my baggage limits are less so I might have to send a couple things home
if I run out of room. Checked bags are 44 lbs each and carry on is 22.
It was sad to see the Ukrainians leave yesterday! I
can't wait to see them after the mission. I never quite understood why
Hunter was always wanting to hang out with his mission friends but now I
know! These guys are all so awesome and I am so excited to hang out
with them and speak Russian and talk about the good old days.. But elder
Bingham got delayed! So I'll get to see him until we leave and I'm not
quite sure when he heads out of to Donets'k.
Last night's devotional was really cool, it was a
member of the 70 who talked about the law of consecration. He talked
about a guy named John Tanner who was converted a long time ago. He
devoted so much time and money to the church and he helped us keep the
Kirkland temple for as long as we did. There is a church video about him
you should go watch it!
Did I tell you that my companion spoke at mission
conference? I can't remember if I did or not, but on fast Sundays they
have a 2 hour long meeting where usually the mtc presidency speaks. A
couple days before we sat next to the presidency in the cafeteria and
Elder Schneider shared his conversion story with President Brown. So in
mission conference president brown asked Elder Schneider to go up and
give his testimony. It was awesome! And then they called him into their
offices afterwards and he may be speaking on Thanksgiving day, I'm not
sure.
The new russian missionaries come in today! Which means
I'm gonna be a Russian MTC grandpa. Weird. We started our new schedule
yesterday, and I get to have Brat Duffy again! one of my original
teachers, he is way cool. He just graduated from the mariott school and
he's waiting for his girlfriend to graduate to move to cali to work.
Also he just took the CPA exam! What a stud. So our days are fairly
normal but the last hour of each class block we go in to help the
younger districts. Yesterday me and elder Schneider did a demonstration
for them talking about receiving revelation through church attendance.
It is fun to help out and to pretend we know what we are doing.
There ya have it
folks, another week gone by here in provo. It's weird that I'm spending 3
months of my mission here in the mtc, that's 1/8 of my mission! I mean
everyone likes the mtc but let me talk to some people in the real world!
Speaking of the real world, yesterday I burped and it tasted kind
of like j-dawgs. I know thats a lot of info for you but it gave me an
idea. Every tuesday they have hot dogs here so I was thinking someone in
provo should get ahold of some j-dawgs sauce and get it to me before
tuesday.. haha if it doesn't happen that's fine--just a thought.
I love you all, sorry for the long letter!
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