Oh hai thur everyone!
Soooo it's kind of crazy to think, but its been almost 3 weeks now. One more and I'm 1/24th done...what the crazy?!?! Anywho, this week in review:
Elder Gaylord caught some sort of icky virus so we got to leave the confines of the MTC and visit the real world. A random jogger girl was excited to see us, so that was neato. And Elder Gaylord was prescribed mucinex and claratin...pretty much the lamest thing ever, but I got a free walk out of it I guess. In cooler medical news, the flu has hit the MTC with a vengence. One of our district members got quarantined this week, and had to live in 4m with all of the other undesirables. He got to nap all day and sleep in till 10, so I'm not quite sure who won this round. Because we were in contact with him for so long, we all got free boxes of Tamiflu ($100 normally) so that was kinda cool I guess. He has now returned to us and all is well. And in other other medical news, I've got some sort of awful cold thing which is no good, but I'll live.
I went to the temple this morning which was very nice.
The missionaries on my floor have recently discovered that our little work out stretchy band thing can be used as a sling shot, and have tried launching quarters, jawbreakers, and tape balls. The quarters stick into doors, the jawbreakers explode, and the tape balls are fun to dodge I guess. I'm so proud of them. I wasn't part of it by the way! I'm mature! ahem. And we learned how to use our name badges as kazoos! That is pretty cool.
Last tuesday was a devotional, and by far the most spiritual day I've had in my entire life. Writing an email about it doesn't really do it justice, but long story short, I know I'm supposed to be here. I love this gospel, and everything it's done for me in my life. Just in these three weeks, my entire love and knowledge of our Savior has increased dramatically. I sorta wish I had my scriptures on hand, but I dont :( but I found a scripture that says we are forgiven of our sins every time we bear testimony of the Savior, so that's a real comfort to me here, seeing as I bear testimony like 1000 times a day. And another scripture that says Christ suffers not only for our sins, but for our infirmities, fears, and other things of that nature. So make sure all you people back home never delay allowing Christ's atonement to help you for pretty much anything. I'm so beyond stoked to share my love with the people of Paraguay.
We taught our first plan of salvation this week! woo! And then later that day, we had to teach an entire lesson, while switching off speaking every minute. It was pretty tough but Elder Gaylord and I are pretty pro so we did well. I even finished his testimony once for him, cause he ran out of time :D
Once again I apologize for the randomness of my emails, but I just write as things come. One of my roommate's lady friend from back home sent tasty cookies to him this week and we ate some. They were oh so delicious and it made me happy. And as far as my schedule goes from day to day, I have an hour each of personal study, companion study, and then idioma. Which is language :D To fill in the rest we have big chunks of class time, where we learn more spanish and more gospelly type things. On tuesdays and sundays, we have a devotional/fireside which is nice. We also have blocks of Missionary Directed Time, where you can do pretty much anything as long as its useful. Anything being, gospelly things or buying gospelly things at the bookstore, and teaching and such. Then we have 50 minutes of gym time each day which is nice. I scored a goal this week :D It's getting cold now in the mornings, so eventually I'd like one of my hoodies of sorts and then maybe sweats. And one more t-shirt :D
All in all, the MTC is pretty dang sweet. It gets pretty repetitive from day to day, but it's an amazing learning experience. And I have still had choco milk for every meal. Thanks for all of the letters you guys send to me! It's quite nice to get mail. It makes me feel cool in front of my district. Which reminds me, the Dominican Republic people in our district leave tomorrow I think. :( Our district is shrinking down to only eight people! I think that's all I have to say for this week. Everyone stay strong and keep on keepin on! Make sure you keep sending fun letters, cause in a month (kinda), I'll be in the jungle somewhere so who knows how often I'll get mail there.
I love you all and I pray for every single one of you every day. I know the Lord is blessing me for being here, and I'm pretty sure he's blessing you too :D Now it's time to go do laundry or something! Woo! Pray for meh! Oh yeah and if you have Erin's info, forward this to her please. :D
Love,
Elder Morris
I love you, mommy :D
