MTC is awesome as ever, (by awesome, I mean rigorous, unbelievably crowded, crazy strict and taxing, but VERY spiritual at the same time.) We have awesome devotionals where we all sing like six hymns, all verses, during each devotional, so I get to practice my singing plenty. Which is something I didn't think I'd even get in the field, let alone here, so that's pleasing. Also, I ran into Elder David Belnap, and Elder Cameron Jensen, and got to talk to both of them a couple times and it's really fun to be a veteran and get to give them advice. (yes here in the MTC, one week's time pretty much equals a decade of experience .-- the guys in our zone who have been here for six weeks literally seem to me, to be like 27 years old. IT's a bizarre phenomenon.)
I love studying. We've now learned a few days more spanish, than I ever learned in school. It's cool cuz we'll pick up a new verbe tense, and the teacher will teach it, and we learn it and practice it in the space of maybe an hour, where at school we'd work on something like that for weeks.
But I love doing the Lord's work. His spirit stands beside anyone who will give their life (even just a SECTION of their life, even a small one...) to work for his gospel. Try it some time, give away a week, or even a day, or even an hour, and focus 100 percent of yourself on helping someone receive (be taught, understand, apply) a gospel principle, and SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
Also someone tell Mark Doney to dangit write me. I need some news about his impending call. Dearelder works just fine, (and it preferred) :D.
Ok. so I DO NOT have my visa yet. It IS late. Which i'm not very excited about at all. Elder Nash and I don't have them, but the other two in our room got them, and the others we've talked to (just random elders in the MTC who are supposed to be leaving same day), have theirs as well, so we're kinda worried. We could still get them by like, thursday, and still be good to leave by our supposed departure date which is, AUG 14, Tuesday next!!!! I don't really think they will come on time. I kinda feel like we'll be here another couple weeks. Which is a bummer, but it's ok nonetheless. Whatever happens I'll be ok with. And I guess you never know. They could come. But I'm pretty sure they have all the passports just fine; they just wait to get them to us until we have the visas and they buy the plane ticket and all that jazz.
I will update you guys on the visa situation, and I'm mailing an extra SD card that was already in my camera home to you with a handful of pictures (there isn't really anything national-geographic-home-page-worthy here in the mission bubble (we're fairly sure it's a conspiracy and the church projects a simulation around the campus of the real world going on around us. We've even spotted the same red car leaving the parking lot every couple hours or so, in exactly the same way. We're pretty sure time just stops while we're here.
another phenomenon is the fact that when they show us movies like The Testaments, or Legacy (sunday night's movie), the movies are utterly HILARIOUS. It's probably because we get no media, of any kind, so anything at all is a strange treat . We literally laugh at all the cheesy romantic quotes from Testaments and quote them to each other ALL DAY LONG.
Another detail that i'm not sure if I mentioned. Hermana Eyring, one of my teachers, is , yes, a granddaughter!! Way cool. her english voice is so soft and sweet, that we're pretty sure she's an angel from el cielo. (heaven.)
Ok done. I'll keep you posted. Keep me posted too. Even if you accidentally send me sports news or music news or NEWS, I will not be angry --just let me know what's going on in your lives!!!!!!!!!!
Church is true.
Love you all.
Brady.
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