Saturday, June 8, 2013

MTC Week #3

Fam!! What's up??

It was so great to get letters from all of you this week. I love that. Thank you!

Life is great. The MTC is great. Still getting adjusted. Even though I've been here FOREVER.

It's a huge adjustment. Every time I leave in the morning, I'm always checking for my phone and keys. Don't need either of those. Also, I always get these "Phantom Vibrates" they call them. I always feel like my phone is going off in my pocket. So weird. And you actually have to talk to people and make plans while you are with them, say what?? You can't just call them to see where they are. A whole new world. You would think, though, that if every time I left the room and was checking for my keys, we would always remember our room keys right? Totally got locked out twice this week! haha so funny. We all got back from gym and my companion was like, "Let's go take a picture in the hall!" So we all walk out into the hall and let the door close. It kinda makes life a little difficult because here every building and every door you have to swipe your key to open it, so we did a lot of knocking on doors and waiting for people to come by with their keys. haha

Everything kind of felt like a dream until last Sunday. We were watching Legacy after the devotional in the auditorium and there was a kissing scene and everyone freaked out. Then I was like, "Yep, I'm definitely at the MTC. Not a dream." I literally thought that. Also, if I'm ever wondering if this is real life, I just walk into the bathroom and listen to the random people singing in the shower and harmonizing to each other. HAHA.  My favorite. Only at the MTC.

Last Saturday when we went to the temple I saw Lyle and Shauna and Jesse! That was fun! Also, I saw Sister Bailey from the 3rd ward and I also saw Cole Robison. It seriously is the best seeing people you know! AND I saw the Cardullos in the parking lot when we were walking to the field! Oh also, both Mom and Dad asked about this but I forgot to tell you last week about the Cusicks. When my companion and I were sitting in the front at the devotional with Elder Zwick, Pres. Cusick was up there with his wife and I just recognized him, so after I went over to talk to them.

Today when we went to the temple we did sealings. SO COOL. That's my favorite thing. Now I'm ALWAYS gonna want to do those. It had a similar feel to doing baptisms I think. Maybe that's why I liked it so much. I don't know. But of course we felt the spirit so strong and we had a super cool experience with Hermana Skirvin and one of the names that we did. I think going to the temple is my favorite part of being at the MTC.

Our lessons went pretty good this week. We had to do our first TRCs on Monday. It was way cool because we had planned to talk about families, but then when we went to teach, the guy was older and wasn't married and didn't have any kids, so we totally changed our lesson on the spot and the spirit was totally there. Cool. We started teaching Marco over again. Started teaching Luis and also taught one lesson to Lilian. All in Spaninsh guys. ALL IN SPANISH. SO weird. Yesterday we basically talked a whole day in Spanish. We've been trying really hard to say everything we know en Espanol.

Visa update. Argentina Visas are crazy mixed up! They are waiting on 71 missionaries in Salta which is a mission south of us I think? And then all the missionaries here going to Argentina are waiting too. The church is working to get them all figured out so hopefully people will start getting them, but my whole district will most likely get reassigned first before we go.

Spiritual Missionary Stuff: 

My Docrine and Covenants teacher last semester, Brother Pyper, taught about a theory he had that I've been thinking a lot about this week. He calls it the "Greenie Theory." Basically, it's just that we are always becoming Greenies in everything in life. We go to school and we are greenies, we come to the MTC and that's new, then we get out in the field and that's new, then we are in leadership positions and that's new, then we get home and that's new again. Married, kids, jobs, grandparents. Heavenly Father keeps mixing things up and doesn't let our life stay constant because through change we grow and progress. We learn new things and have different experiences. And even though it's hard sometimes because we are out of our comfort zones, that's how we progress and learn. Always a greenie.

Thanks you thank you for the packages and the letters and dearelders and everything!! 

Love you!!

Megan