Letter Number 2

Hello Family!!! (and friends)

Wow, two weeks down, only 7 left to go before I am out of this place. The classic saying for time in the MTC is that the days feel like weeks, but the weeks feel like days. For all of you out there that have read Frankl, you will know that this is a prisoner mentality. I really like the MTC, I am learning a lot, but i still can't wait to be done here and get to Texas. I am so excited.

Mom- I do like to hear what everyone is doing. It doesn't make me homesick, it just makes me smile.

Kristi and Jen asked a few questions:

I do love the devotionals. They are really great. Yesterday we had Craig C. Christensen come and talk about the power of the Book of Mormon. It is so true. I mean, his message, and the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is true. One neat thing we talked about afterwords is how the challenge in Moroni 10:3-5 "isn't like the chicken pox, you can do it more than once." - Elder Scott. This is very true.

I really like my teachers. They are Hermano (Brother) Pace and Hermana (Sister) Padilla. Son muy excellente!

My day offficially starts at 6:30, but usually i get up around 6:15-6:20. (You have to get up a little early if you want to guaruntee a warm shower. Cold showers are terrible. I've been lucky so far. If you wait for like a minute or two it usually gets warm, so i haven't taken a cold shower yet, but I found out something equally terrible: Lava hot showers. We thought we would save time by going to another floor to shower after gym one day, and the shower was pretty good at first, but then it went to super lava hot and wouldn't get colder. It was terrible.

Story time:

Here at the MTC you are supposed to match your companion. This is a very loose matching that is required. For example, if your companion is wearing a short sleeve shirt, so should you. If your companion is wearing a suitcoat, so should you. However, the two Elders we saw wearing matching pink ties... i think they are just sending the wrong message...

Also, if you didn't know, the closest contact you should have with a Sister at the MTC is a handshake. Well one day myself, Elder Crocket, and Elder Scott were sitting in the door of the classroom (all within sight of our companions) and a new Sister in the Zone was walking past. We parted to let here get to her room, and she thanked us and patted Elder Scott's and My shoulder as she passed. You missed it didn't you? You don't see what was wrong do you?? Well, three weeks ago neither would I have seen it.SHE PATTED OUR SHOULDERS!?!?!?!?!!?!?When she patted our shoulders Elder Crockett just backed up out of reach and stared at us. Then when she had passed Elder Scott and I tried to just keep talking about the gospel, but we couldn't help but start laughing. We can't believe we are already in missionary mode. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Congrats to Bradley!! I think Stateside spanish speaking is the way to go! We have been hearing horror stories about the tapeworms of South America. (Our teachers both served in South America) Speaking of South America, Congrats to Jonny V on his mission call to Chile!!! Don't worry jonny, they have pills to kill the tapeworms.

Love,

Elder Roberts