Entering the MTC

Hellooo everyone!! my first week at the mtc has been so awesome!! I have seen so many of my friends here!! People like (insert elder or sister in front of the names) Brent Blackwell, Connor Crandall, Caroline Anderson, Parker Kowal, Cayden Christensen, Harrison Piper, Devin Freeman, Mitch Southwick, and Brandon Merkley! Oh and a ton of people that I know from Kaysville. And today I saw Joe McKay!! Man I love that guy. Apparently he teaches Russian here.

Anyways, let me just say that those first 5 days went by sooooo slow. I could not believe how long the days felt. But every single person we talked to said make it to Sunday. So we made it to Sunday! Hopefully things go by a little faster ;) The spirit here is so strong that it is incredible. Even when I was getting set apart the night before I came here, I could just feel the power of the priesthood when everyone put their hands on my head. I love having the spirit all around us and hopefully it stays with us. All we have to do is be obedient and we have been so far. Haha I don't want to have Bryant chew us out. I have seen the results of that and they do not look fun. Being able to see Marissa and Bryant is so awesome!! Marissa possibly has the greatest district here (except they left today) besides ours. They were all so nice to us and they would always come talk to us and help us with our chinese. They rock. Nice work Marissa. 

Speaking of districts, my district is just the best. It is awesome that Elder Nate Shwemmer and Elder Hunter Hanks from Kaysville in my district. There are 6 of us. Me, Elder Bradford (my companion), Elder Shwemmer, Elder Hanks, Elder Gasser, and Elder Ferrell. They are such nice guys and they rock. So the reason we couldn't find Elder Bradford anywhere is because he goes by the name Hayes. Just so ya know. He is from Arkansas and he just completed his freshman year at BYU. He is such a funny guy and he makes us laugh so much!! 

Our chinese is coming along... It still needs lots of work but I pretty much have praying down!! We are trying as hard as we can to SYL (speak your language) as much as possible. It has really helped out so far. So we have already had to teach two lessons to an 'investigator' and they have been super hard. The first time we taught about the Plan of Salvation and it went pretty well. We pretty much had him read a bunch of stuff and then we bore our testimonies. He asked a few questions, I knew what he was saying but we did not know how to respond. Then the second time we taught about the Atonement. Same deal, this time there was literally no way we could have answered his questions with our limited chinese. It was kinda awkward. Oh well, we'll get better with the help of the spirit.

Even though the language is very frustrating, I love the mtc. It really helps solidify my testimony about the church. It is most definitely true and I love everything about it.  

Well I love you guys so much!!! Thanks for your hilarious letters Kaytlen :) you make me laugh a lot. Hope you all have a great week and in the words of Uncle Lee, "Be strong and be true."

Wo ai ni!! (sorry I don't know how to put tones on)

Sun zhang lao

ps Sister Slack if you read this, can you sen Thomas' emails to this account?? Thanks!