Well this week was awesome! It flew by, but at the same time it feels like ive been here for an eternity! But thats ok because I love it here and I loving being with my district and other missionaries! So ill tell ya a little about my district, we have me and my comp elder chirstensen, then we have elder scott( who i mentioned in the last email) he is from layton and his comp elder johnson who is from cache valley, just like 10 minutes away from utah state, he is a big time farmer. Then we have elder davis who is from idaho and he is 6'9. Me and him get along really well too but is tough to guard wen playing basketball hah and his comp elder bradshaw who is from st george. Then we have 4 sisters. Sister Houston and her comp sister archer which they are both kinda quiet but this past week they have been outgoing and we have really gotten to see their personalities! And lastly Sister grayson and Sister Hedelius, who by the way if Marty and Ronda get this email ask Alysa about her. Her name is Marissa Hedelius and she said she loves Alysa and was so excited i asked about her haha.
Anyways now for some stories and things I have done this week. I just got back from going to the temple, and like always it was amazing! I love it there. Every day we sit in a class for 9-11 hours and it is SOOO hard to consentrate. So im kinda glad that I leave a week from today and get out into the field! So yes this is the last email you will get from the MTC. And next week im going to call my family so I dont know if i will send a letter or not. O and just a few fun facts for the day, the group of missionaries that came in on the same day as me and are going english speaking are the last group to do 3 weeks, all the next missionaries are now 2 weeks. I have heard that it will decrease to one week then to online classes but dont know how fast they will do that. They also got a high school in Mexico and are turning that into the 2nd biggest MTC for all the spanish branches. And really exciting is that tomorrow when the new missionaries come in it will be the first time in MTC history that there will be more sister missionaries then elders! Crazy right?! But this week for our service assignment where we usually clean the buildings, me and elder Davis went and helped make beds for the sisters because they are now 6 in a room instead of 4! After that we went back to help the rest of the zone out with cleaning and they assigned us to vacuum. Elder davis was wearing a green shirt, and i was wearing my red roll tide shirt with red sweats. The vacuum's here you put on your back. But they gave us mustaches and Me and elder davis were Mario and Luigi! haha it was pretty fun! Plus after we got done we wanted pictures on our camera, so elder scott helped us take those and then out of no where came like 10 other elders and just started taking out pictures. I was kind of wierd because usually no one wants me in the picture haha but i felt famous for a moment:)
One other quick story. So we have fake investigators who are our teachers, but we teach them every day. So me and my companion were teaching one of the investigators named Paola. The time before that we invited her to read the scriptures and pray about them with her husband. So we were following up on that. Her husband was a member and she would sometimes go to church. So first asked if she went and she said yes and that they learned about how to teach the gospel to there kids. She said she was nervous to raise kids but would like to have some one day. And she said she read about nephi going to kill king laban and she said she liked how nephi even though he felt the spirit still didnt want to kill him, but he knew he had to kill one man to save thousands down the road. So I related that to her and how if she gets baptized and teaches the gospel to her family then because of one person it would effect generations down. And we asked if she knew it was true, she said yes and was excited. The spirit was so strong! And so being the dumb human that I am i went on with the lesson that we were going to teach. About 30 seconds in our teacher stands up and yells, "I cant take it anymore!" Me and my companion were both confused and said what? She asked "Why didnt you ask her to get baptized??" and then it hit me like a slap in the face! I felt so stupid! She was a golden investigator and was giving us all the hints to be baptized! We did rewind the situation and asked her to be baptized and she said yes! But boy was that a learning experience for me! Im glad it happened here instead of out in the field!
Well thats how my weeks been! I cant wait to fly out to Alabama! Keep writing me I love all your letters! I love this gospel, I know its true! We have a loving Heavenly Father who knows us all personally! His son Jesus Christ atoned for our sins so that we can all live as a happy family! Joseph Smith is a true prophet that restored the gospel of Christ back onto the earth and through him we have the Book of Mormon, and the priesthood! I love being a missionary and cant wait to go help other families become eternal!
I love you all!
Love Elder Hall:)
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