Another busy and fun week at the MTC. Monday, the senior half of our zone departed into the field! Good luck to all of them, they will be missed. They've all become good friends.
Top left to bottom right, highlighted in red are those who left monday, blue left first Monday I was here - Elders: Moore, Simmons, Whittacre, Bertuccini, Merrill, Clymer, Marks, Quinn, Christensen, Me, Graf, Sisters: Nelson, Bean, Hadley, Kentner, Elders: Moore, Starks, Moran, Sisters: Walker,Solomon, Worley, and Elder Jones.
More pictures of our zone:
Sunday we got new zone leaders, which are now Elder Merrill and Elder Bertuccini! We also got a new district in on Wednesday that I'll have to get a picture of all of us for next week.
Tuesday night's devotional - Elder Ronald A. Rasband came and spoke to us about following Spiritual promptings. During this devotional (which was broadcast to all MTC's), we got to perform "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go" as a choir, but it was a MoTab version with like 8 parts. Luckily they simplified it down to just 4 and it still sounded amazing. Being in the choir is awesome.
With the other district leaving we got a lot of things called "pass-downs", which are items that are given to newer districts with everyone's names, who previously had it, written on it. These range from giant cans of corn to small toys or whatever. It's an interesting tradition.
On Monday we attempted an "English Fast" as a zone, and it didn't turn out well. Everyone basically decided to stop talking because no English was allowed and no one can really make good conversation in Spanish only. Everyone gave up before dinner haha.
Spanish is getting real deep into the complex grammar rules. I'm not completely stumped yet, but that's just because it's at the easy part (relatively speaking). I just need to improve my application of these grammar rules. Like, I'm pretty sure I never got as complex in grammar in English, as we will be getting into in Spanish by the end of my time here at the MTC. I am understanding a lot more now and can teach lessons and give talks all in Spanish too. It's pretty great.
The field opened up this week and to be honest it's pretty underwhelming. Sand volleyball is nice, but everything else just requires running outside in the hot sun. I think I'll stick to my in-door four-square haha.
I have a little over two weeks left and then I'm out of here. It's gonna be another strange adjustment I'm sure, but I'm eager to really start serving.
Thank you to everyone who has helped me out and sent me letters, photos, and packages! Thank you Holderness family for the package! I don't think I'll ever run out of junk food to eat back at my room. I'm loving all the letters and photos. Keep 'em coming! Hasta la próxima semana. ¡Los amo todo!
Elder Lewis
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