So today is P-day and I figured I send we you guys a letter letting you know the kind of things that I have been doing so far. Our P-day today is being shortened because the new mission presidents need people to teach their lessons to and we were voluntold to be their students which is alright, I guess, because we are getting more P-day time on Saturday. We are being randomly assigned mission presidents so it won't be my new mission president which is a little unfortunate, but I get to meet him on Saturday, so that will be nice.
The MTC is a lot better than I thought it was going to be! I like the whole district that I was put in so that is another benefit. I think everyone thinks I'm funny or it could just be they want me to give them their mail so they are being nice to me. They made me the district leader for my district which I think is pretty cool and my job isn't that hard - I just have to assign people to pray and make sure they stay focused during the class times we have and our personal study. The first week here has been a little crazy and it seems like a ton of stuff happens all the time but that most likely because we are up from 6:30 until 10:30 so there's a lot of time for us to be doing stuff all day. We spend a lot of time in our class room for teaching and our own personal or companion study, so some of the people are going a little stir-crazy from being in there for so long, but we get breaks every hour to try and relieve some of that. The best part of the day is probably the time that we get to
exercise. Most of the time i just use that time to play sports - mostly volleyball and soccer.
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| Kaylene and Ben |
I ran into my cousin (Kaylene) and Lily (Player) a couple of times and talked with them for a little bit but haven't had the opportunity to get a picture with them yet.
Everyone here is super scared to drink the orange juice and the branch president told us that the side effects only happen when your drink two glasses of orange juice so i put that to the test and I'm here to report that you will survive if you drink two glasses of orange juice but maybe that's just me.
The district that has been here 1 week longer than us is a little crazy and the branch president is being a little stricter to us because he doesn't want the trend of crazy missionaries to continue. To give and example of the things that the other missionaries are doing ... They stole sheets from somewhere to make sauna in our shower room. Luckily none of the missionaries in my district were apart of that, so I didn't have to get mad at anyone because it was some else job to do that.
I was able to play soccer for the first time yesterday and it was pretty fun. There are a couple of good soccer players that come out to the field and play so that was nice but the grass is really wet when we have time to be exercising, so everyone was slipping a ton and they wont let you wear cleats so that unfortunate.
I was able to sing in the choir for Tuesday's devotional which was a good experience. We sang "I Feel My Savior's Love." The devotion we sang at was pretty cool as well. The mission leader of the quorum of the 70 came to talk to us about how we should measure our success as a missionary. Hopefully we get one of the first presidency to talk to us this coming week because they should be here on Sunday to teach the new mission presidents and we will probably sing in the choir for that as well. The food here has been alright when we were in the main building but since the mission presidents have arrived the have closed the main cafeteria so we have been getting a lot of cold food recently. The best meal so far is probably when they brought Chick-fil-a in which was a pleasant surprise to the food that we are used to here.
At the MTC we get the opportunity to teach fake investigators who act like real investigators which is pretty cool because it gives us experience teaching people which I enjoy. I feel like I'm pretty good at teaching the lessons that we have for our investigators and I feel confident that i could teach real investigators as well.
I should be able to send another short email on Saturday (he did not) and I can read emails throughout the week but i cant respond to them. I'm trying to figure out how to upload the pictures from the camera but I'm not really sure how to do that and the computers aren't very helpful because you can hardly do anything on them. I appreciate the care package that you sent me and would also like it if you could keep me updated on the Euros because none of the teachers follow them so they cant give me the scored. Tell Sam that I'm really happy that his Warriors lost in the finals. I'll try to figure out how to get the pictures sent to you either later today or on Saturday when I have more free time.
Love,
Elder Sugden
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