So!! if i had to make an analogy for the MTC it would be throwing a toddle who doesnt know how to swim in the middle of the deep end of a swimming pool!! So my first day was so amazing!! we got here and did some orentation thing and that was pretty good!! Then i met elder smith!! he's pretty cool i guess!! he is from idaho falls! he is just graduated! he absoulty loves cars! as we walk to classes and stuff he says do you know what kind of car that is? over and over again!!
so to start off i will tell about our apartment!! we are so incredibly blessed!!! we are at west campus and for those of you that don't know what that is, it is where the put all of the Spanish speaking missionaries! its kind of like a complete immersion type of a thing!!! its just in two sets of apartment complexes! the first one is where every stays at night! most of everybody's apartments are 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom and 1 kitchen! but since elder smith got a corner one we got three bedrooms and a way bigger bathroom! (oh and the toilet is amazing! it can literally flush down anything you put in it!!) there is just the two of us in the in the apartment and it will stay that way!! so needless to say we have a lot of room!! it is so nice!!
In the other apartment complex is where we spend 10 hours of our day in class!! so long we also eat in this large building and we play sports and have our gym time in these huge blow up like building!! its crazy!! i think we have it better then the main campus elder and sister do!! on p-days we get to go to Brighamslanding which is this little strip mall that has a burger place and jamba juice and sub zero!! its awesome!!
2nd day! the days are so so long!! i didn't sleep very well because elder smith turned the temperature down to 50 degrees!! what a nut!! we had a get to know you devotional that was pretty good and then we went full board Spanish! crazy!! we had a branch meeting and i was named senior companion!
3rd day! i slept awesome!! The days go by so slow here but the weeks fly by!! or so every body says!! and so far it seems right!! so today we taught our first lesson in Spanish! yea!! in Spanish!! it was alot rough!! haha but that's ok! his name was angel! wow i cant believe that i am doing this!! crazy!! Today was the 4th of july!! we got to go to a devotional while carry under wood was singing at the stadium of fire so that we didn't hear it i think!! there were some fun musical numbers and a speaker! after he was done we got to watch the popular Hollywood film 17 miracles!! that was such a good show! i loved it 100% maybe because it was an awesome break but never the less i loved it!! After the movie we go to go out side and watch the fire works until like 10:45! they were so cool!!
4th day! today was totally normal!! lots and lots of study time!! Funny story!! Elder rawson was praying before we went to dinner and he was trying to say por favor, bendice nuestros somos mejor missionarios which means please bless us to be better missionaries but he accidentally said por favor, bendice nuestros somos mujer misionaros which is please bless us to be women missionaries!! haha it was so so funny!! he is a good guy!!
5th day! so today was so incredibly interesting!! it did not feel like a sunday at all... so first off our chapel that we go to church in is the apartments old pool house! its so cool! so our chapel has a pool! i bore my testimony in spanish!! so so cool!! in the night we went to main campus and we got to listen to a famous piano player that is lds (cant remember his name) play the piano and talk to us! the we got to watch the movie called legacy! it was pretty awesome!!
6th day! this day was completely normal so i will explain a normal day for you!! we wake up at 6:30 (not easy) and elder smith showers then i shower! then we go to breakfast!! the we go to class for 4 hours and learn Gospel stuff for 2 hours and language stuff for 2 hours and once that is finished we go to lunch and then to the gym for an hour which is so fun!! then we go shower!! and then we go back to class for 3 hours more gosple and language study! then to dinner and then back to class for 3 more hours and that last one is spent 1 hour is for personal study 1 hour for companionship study and 1 hour for language study! and after that we go back to our apartment and i write in my journal and get ready for bed!! so yes our days are very long!! but they are good when we have an investigator to teach we spend one of the periods teaching! and today we taught angel again!! it went a little better!! its hard because i know what i want to say but i cant because he doesnt speak english! but we got him to commit to reading the testimonies of the three and eight witnesses! so cool!
well im running low on time!! so i love you all you are so amazing!! thank you for all the love and support!! your prayers really do help!! thank you!! By the way im praying and bearing my testimony in spanish already!! our class is doing so good the moved us to the intermediate course! my one year of spanish in school helped so so much and im convinced that it was not a coincidence that i took a year of spanish for no reason! if i didnt answer some of your questions please feel free to ask them again there was alot! love you all!!
yo sé que jesucristo es mi salvador y redentor. yo sé que dios es mi padre celistial! en el nombre de jesucristo amen!
Love, Elder Groen
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