Elder Dalton Groen: Happy 24th!!

Well well well!!

This has been a pretty good week!! Time is really starting to fly by here!! i'm already half way done!! so crazy how fast it goes!!

Wednesday: Today we got a bunch of new people in our apartments... 4 other elders... How are we ever supposed to get 6 elders through one shower in the morning? We also got 16 new missionaries in our zone!! So we got to leave class early and we got to meet them all!! they are pretty cool i guess!!

Thursday: This day was pretty dull... there was one highlight tho!! elder smith and i taught our best lesson yet!! we were so excited!! we just decided to let the spirit take the lesson where it wanted and it was so good!! we talked about some of the things that Angel was worried about and it was so cool to see how doing the right things can really bless our lives!!

Friday: this day absolutely flew by!! it was another straight learning day!! which are good!! its just kind of hard to write a lot about them...

Saturday: pretty solid day!! to start the day off we learned por y para which is so hard and confusing but i think that i am starting to catch onto the trick! we had another awesome lesson with angel! we got him to promise to read el libro de mormon!! So during gym time i was playing volleyball and accidentally (It really was an accident) dove to try and save a ball... when you dive you have to sit for 5 minutes... so i went and sat down... i waited my 5 minutes. and i went to play with elder perkins because he was leaving in the morning... the dude i charge came over and ask what i was doing... i said im playing volleyball. and he said i didn't say your time was up, your done for the day... are your kidding me... i was so so mad!!

Sunday: In our Sunday night devotional we got to hear from t.c Christensen!! it was so so good!! he told us we always need to be ready for when god calls us to do something! after that we went back to our apartment and the other elders branch 2nd counselor was there so we listened to him talk for a little while. turns out he is president monsons nephew!! and that is the last thing i would have guessed... he was wearing a bow tie! hipster glasses skinny jeans and vans! what?? (picture!) and i'm not so sure that all of the stuff that he told us was true... he told us that kneeling to pray is just a worldly thing and not that we shouldn't do it but that it wasn't something we need to do... yea... needless to say he was a crazy man!

Monday: well this night was probably the highlight of the mtc so far! i love it! we had a lesson for our teacher brother Adlish (angel) teaching us about trials! you should all read "Broken things to mend" by elder holland!! i think it was in a 2006 conference talk but im not sure! it is so so good!!

Thank you all for the love and support!! I love you all!! Happy 24th of July to you all!! have the best week!!

Love, Elder Groen!