I have
never been this happy and excited.
Before i
start I’d like to thank everyone who got me to this point in my life.
i am
blessed to have such a supportive family/friends.
This week
felt really long, i learned so much and i was constantly working. I have got
alot done but yet it feels like
i got here yesterday. The gift of tongues is real!! After
the first day I was praying in Spanish. After the second
day i was baring testimony and
teaching lesions.... sort of. We sound like the kids that go up on fast and
testimony meetings and bare their
testimonies. It is very generic, simple and rehearsed but it is a start.
Well a
little bit about the MTC or the CCM. There are about 130 missionaries here and
10 of them are
sisters. There is a 12 ft wall around the whole place; it makes you
feel like you are in prison. We flew in at
night so we didn’t get to see much of Peru until
today (our p day).
It is
winter here so the weather feels great,
it is overcast most of the time but it burns off
like in California. I think we’ve seen the sky once or twice so
that’s good. The are 3 main
buildings. We live in a dorm with the elders and sisters on a different side,
the
class rooms
are on the bottom level.
The other
building is the cafeteria; it has an assembly
room/church/barber shop on the top
floor. The last building is just the receptionist building where all of our
paper work is.
My
companion is Elder Larsen. We get along great, he is awesome. We play ping pong
occasionally and he
is really good. I beat him once and he was frustrated the rest of the
day haha. When we first got here we
didn’t have our badges yet and when we got them it
was pretty special. They are pretty symbolic and putting
them on feels so powerful, I put my
tag on everyone morning and its hard to explain... it just gets me excited
to go preach.
The food
here is great!! For breakfast it is pretty much eggs and toast. We occasionally
get a bowl of
yogurt and
throw some cereal in it. Lunch and Dinner are pretty much the same, rice and
some kind of
meat. This is
what we like to call {the mystery soup of the day[ it usually has some weird
bone or some
kind of meat
in it.
We aren’t
allowed to take pictures unless it is p-day. We can’t take any of inside the
buildings because they
are set apart but it pretty much looks like the provo sport camp dorms.
I can’t send any pictures in the mtc so
you will get alot of pictures coming in 5 weeks from
now.
Today was
our first p day. We woke up at 5 and went to the temple. We crammed in the
local bus that costs
50 souls to ride. The temple was beautiful and really small. I felt the
spirit really strong and I thought of how
blessed I am to have gone through with my whole
family -Jensen. I thought of the first time I went through
and saw all my sisters waiting for
me at the end, it felt like I had died and gone to heaven.
There
is something so powerful about the temple, and having witnessed my sisters
wedding I know there is no other
way to get married. We got to go shopping after, I
bought a llama tie and a coin purse because you carry
alot of coins for buses and buying
small items. We went to the grocery store and I got a coke! I collect coke
cans but i know if I continue doing
it during my mission i will have no luggage space at the end.
Elder Pederson from our stake left
the day before I got there. He left a note for me and sister larsen. It was
very nice, just saying welcome and
some advice about the language and such. Elder Roberts is here and it
is nice to have familiar faces
around (Elder Brunken, Elder Olsen).
I will
briefly explain what the average day is like. Waking up At 6:30 showering,
ironing your shirt, go to
breakfast, personal study, spanish class until lunch, spanish class
again and then we get an hour of physical
activity or as the elders like to call it "yard
time". WE occasionally have assemblies or firesides. Last night a
member of the 70 talked and it was
translated to English for the gringos. We watch alot of conference talks
and occasionally the district, they
are really powerful.
I know
without a doubt in my mind that this is where i need to be. The spirit is so
strong and being around all
of these elders makes me happy, there are some of the
nicest people I have ever met here. I am nervous
that I wont get the language down
but I know that if I have the spirit The lord will convey what I need to say
through the spirit. I have been
blessed to have so many great leaders through out my life prepare me for this
moment. My testimony in this church
grows more and more each day.
Joke of
the week- upon arrival here at 2 am, we walked into the building with the dorms
and saw the elders
down the hall start to walk up the stairs. We started to go up the
stairs at the other end of the building and
one of the leaders stopped us and said "elder
stop, that is the staircase you take if you want to go home (the
girls staircase)" so now every
time we pass it we ask each other "does anyone wanna go home? I hear there
is a guy up there waiting to give
you your plane ticket."
I’m
staying here for 2 years!
Elder
Mitch Man
I have
never been this happy and excited.
Before i
start I’d like to thank everyone who got me to this point in my life.
i am
blessed to have such a supportive family/friends.
This week
felt really long, i learned so much and i was constantly working. I have got
alot done but yet it feels like
i got here yesterday. The gift of tongues is real!! After
the first day I was praying in Spanish. After the second
day i was baring testimony and
teaching lesions.... sort of. We sound like the kids that go up on fast and
testimony meetings and bare their
testimonies. It is very generic, simple and rehearsed but it is a start.
Well a
little bit about the MTC or the CCM. There are about 130 missionaries here and
10 of them are
sisters. There is a 12 ft wall around the whole place; it makes you
feel like you are in prison. We flew in at
night so we didn’t get to see much of Peru until
today (our p day).
It is
winter here so the weather feels great,
it is overcast most of the time but it burns off
like in California. I think we’ve seen the sky once or twice so
that’s good. The are 3 main
buildings. We live in a dorm with the elders and sisters on a different side,
the
class rooms
are on the bottom level.
The other
building is the cafeteria; it has an assembly
room/church/barber shop on the top
floor. The last building is just the receptionist building where all of our
paper work is.
My
companion is Elder Larsen. We get along great, he is awesome. We play ping pong
occasionally and he
is really good. I beat him once and he was frustrated the rest of the
day haha. When we first got here we
didn’t have our badges yet and when we got them it
was pretty special. They are pretty symbolic and putting
them on feels so powerful, I put my
tag on everyone morning and its hard to explain... it just gets me excited
to go preach.
The food
here is great!! For breakfast it is pretty much eggs and toast. We occasionally
get a bowl of
yogurt and
throw some cereal in it. Lunch and Dinner are pretty much the same, rice and
some kind of
meat. This is
what we like to call {the mystery soup of the day[ it usually has some weird
bone or some
kind of meat
in it.
We aren’t
allowed to take pictures unless it is p-day. We can’t take any of inside the
buildings because they
are set apart but it pretty much looks like the provo sport camp dorms.
I can’t send any pictures in the mtc so
you will get alot of pictures coming in 5 weeks from
now.
Today was
our first p day. We woke up at 5 and went to the temple. We crammed in the
local bus that costs
50 souls to ride. The temple was beautiful and really small. I felt the
spirit really strong and I thought of how
blessed I am to have gone through with my whole
family -Jensen. I thought of the first time I went through
and saw all my sisters waiting for
me at the end, it felt like I had died and gone to heaven.
There
is something so powerful about the temple, and having witnessed my sisters
wedding I know there is no other
way to get married. We got to go shopping after, I
bought a llama tie and a coin purse because you carry
alot of coins for buses and buying
small items. We went to the grocery store and I got a coke! I collect coke
cans but i know if I continue doing
it during my mission i will have no luggage space at the end.
Elder Pederson from our stake left
the day before I got there. He left a note for me and sister larsen. It was
very nice, just saying welcome and
some advice about the language and such. Elder Roberts is here and it
is nice to have familiar faces
around (Elder Brunken, Elder Olsen).
I will
briefly explain what the average day is like. Waking up At 6:30 showering,
ironing your shirt, go to
breakfast, personal study, spanish class until lunch, spanish class
again and then we get an hour of physical
activity or as the elders like to call it "yard
time". WE occasionally have assemblies or firesides. Last night a
member of the 70 talked and it was
translated to English for the gringos. We watch alot of conference talks
and occasionally the district, they
are really powerful.
I know
without a doubt in my mind that this is where i need to be. The spirit is so
strong and being around all
of these elders makes me happy, there are some of the
nicest people I have ever met here. I am nervous
that I wont get the language down
but I know that if I have the spirit The lord will convey what I need to say
through the spirit. I have been
blessed to have so many great leaders through out my life prepare me for this
moment. My testimony in this church
grows more and more each day.
Joke of
the week- upon arrival here at 2 am, we walked into the building with the dorms
and saw the elders
down the hall start to walk up the stairs. We started to go up the
stairs at the other end of the building and
one of the leaders stopped us and said "elder
stop, that is the staircase you take if you want to go home (the
girls staircase)" so now every
time we pass it we ask each other "does anyone wanna go home? I hear there
is a guy up there waiting to give
you your plane ticket."
I’m
staying here for 2 years!
Elder
Mitch Man
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