I MADE IT!
I finally got my P-day. My zone is assigned Thursday as our P-day, but we
arrived Wednesday and the day after you arrive is Orientation stuff so we didn´t
get a P-day last week. So the MTC has been an adventure. It´s way more difficult
than I thought it would be, but I´m starting to get used to it. So here´s a fun
story for you all. My family and I arrived at the Kelowna airport on September
4th to drop me off. I was supposed to take a 6 am flight from Kelowna to Seattle
and then connect to Salt Lake. But the Seattle flight got canceled. So what
Delta did was put my on a flight to Vancouver an hour later on WestJet and then
a second flight to Salt Lake on Delta airlines again. Well, I got to Vancouver
just fine and I found Delta airlines to get my boarding pass for the second
flight. It took them like 30 minutes to transfer my ticket info and luggage from
WestJet back to Delta. They finally had to manually transfer my luggage and
printed me my boarding pass. But when I got to Salt Lake, I found 2 bags that
looked exactly like mine, but weren´t. Anyway, long story short, I pretty much
lived in one suit and one pair of underwear for 3 days. After I got my bags, it
got better. It took a while to get used to all the sitting and reading and
studying you do. You have two 3-hour blocks of class everyday and when you
aren´t in class, you´re either eating or doing some sort of study. There is no
free time to do anything. I had to skip some sort of activity just to check the
front desk to see if my luggage had arrived. Also, I am no longer in the same
MTC. Our whole zone got moved this Tuesday. We´re now in the MTC West campus, which is
just some old student housing that BYU converted into an MTC campus and it´s
only a 3 minute drive away from the old one. But our residences are way better
now and we get to go shopping at Brigham´s Landing on P'days. Also, part of
moving means that my mailing address isn´t the same. I don´t know what the new
one is, but I´ll let you know as soon as I can. For those people who have been
using DearElder, thank you so much!! It´s really nice to get those. For those
who don´t know, you can go on DearElder.com and type what you want to send me
and they´ll print it off and deliver it for free. If you want to do that, just
use my old address, and they´ll forward it over. Now that I´ve told stories and
asked for letters, I want to talk about how my learning is going. From the first
day on, they only speak in Spanish in the classroom. Also, there´s a new program
they introduced this year or sometime thereabouts. We have progressing
investigators. There are BYU students who are return missionaries that get hired
by the MTC and some get hired as investigators. So we started teaching ours on
the 3rd day. And he only speaks Spanish. Well, his character does. We have a
teaching record and everything. Our investigator´s name is Raul and we´ve
already committed him to baptism and set a date with him. In broken Spanish, but
he understood what we were saying. Also, I have to do a lot of the talking
because even though I don´t know a lot, my French really helps me out and every
other missonary in our district is really really really bad. But they will get
better, and so will I. Oh, district. So there are 7 missionaries in our district
and because of that, I am in a trio. I have 2 companions. Elder Clayson from
Tooele Utah and Elder Larsen from Clifton Idaho. We got along fairly well. Our
whole district is pretty close with each other. Everyone but me is going to the
Mexico City South mission. I´m a little frustrated because I have to learn a
completely different verb tense that nobody else does: vosotros. Anyway, that´s
all I can fit in today. Hope to
hear from you on DearElder, it´s free. ¡Adiós!
