Howdy Y'all --Week 1

Well I lived through the first week here at the MTC. Not gonna lie it was really hard leaving home and all of the easy things about life. Goodbyes suck and always will haha, but right after I hugged the fam and started walking into the MTC with my escort I felt I was leading the 2000 stripling warriors of something, and knew that Heavenly Father needs me here to prepare to teach someone in Lubbock Texas.The spirit is so strong here and you can definitely of the saviors love right when you walk in. The first 3 days have probably been the longest days of my life and there is like no time to breathe. Which thinking back right when i got here someone said " welcome to the MTC where a day feels like a week and a week feels like a month" haha and now i know that is exactly how it feels... We are always beyond busy!! They pack our schedules with all the classes, meetings, meals possible with like only 10 minutes in between everything ha.... it's definitely like drinking out of a fire hose. You can only take in so much and it's more painful than enjoyable. But it starts to grow on you and you enjoy it more and more.

 All the people are so friendly here it's kinda weird sometimes......After getting here on Wednesday and sitting through a few meetings we had lunch and i sit down with all my food and this person taps me on the shoulder and is like hey can i borrow your water for a second...... i was so confused and not thinking i was like sure?? so I look back and he is legit dipping his hands in my water cup washing his hands. And trying to keep my cool and act like i wasn't to mad I asked him go get me another water...... still confused, but he was asain so that made it worse but explained a lot haha.

The first night Me, Elder Jenkins (my companion), Elder Blake, and Elder Williams (both my roomates) were getting back to our room and this WACK Elder comes into our room and starts just spilling his soul to all of us and hugged us all and is telling how much he loves us already.... weird dude right there....and the worse part was his last name which I won't mention cause that is kinda against missionary rules haha. 

My companion like i said is Elder Jenkins and he is cool but also SUPER shy!!! The first like 3 days im almost positive he farted more than he talked hahah.......he has been really hard to talk to and get to know. Think of Wreck it Ralph and he looks like fix it Felix.... or the little boy off of The Polar express haha!! its been super difficult trying to teach investigators with him because he is so shy and doesn't want to talk so i have been doing about all of the teaching.... kinda annoying but it is at least helping me grow more than i expected to. We are finally starting to click and teach better though so thats a start. We are teaching an investigator in our TRC, which is just teaching investigators or fake investigators but we don't know, our investigators name is Daniel Spencer and he is awesome. He's on a rugby scholorship at BYU and is dating a mormon girl. We've only met with him once but i'm positive he really is a true investigator and he is so willing to listen to everything thing we have to say and has accepted all of our challenges for him.... i hope he pulls through. We only had like 25 minutes to teach him but Me and Elder Jenkins killed it in our lesson and i feel like if we would have taught him all... i could have dunked him that night. 

My district is so awesome!! we are all so tight and i feel like i've known them all forever already. About half of them are going to my mission so that's sweet...... and thankfully the elders that i can't stand aren't going to my mission ha. It's awesome though, me and Elder Blake... my roomate.. also going to Lubbock.... we go running about a mile and a half every morning and then me and Elder Bowring, going to Pennsylvania lift everyday during our exercise time. 

Every night we have zone prayer. We have like a spiritual thought, prayer, sing Ye Elders Of Isreal and than do a zone cheer. And my like second favortie comment so far has been our cheer and we yelled "baptize the hell out of em" you wouldn't think missionaries would be using that kind of language... but he i guess that's exactly what we are on our mission for hahah....... My first favorite comment was at like 11p.m. our second night in and it was probably 100 degrees in our room and Elder Williams (funniest guy i've ever met) is like "im like a lizard on a rock on this flippin wall trying to stay cool, calm and collect without breaking any of the flipping missionary rules with my language.

I love it here and know that this is what God wants me to be doing at this time. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only true church and if you don't know that without a doubt in your mind, i challenge you to kneel down and pray to feel of his love and to know that it truly will bless your life. Heavenly Father wants to hear from you because thats the only way we can communicate with him. PRAY< PRAY< PRAY.

Love you all and thanks for the support you've all shown my......... love you bye.

Me and Elder Jenkins (fix it felix)

Beautiful MTC campus.

Me and my boy Elder Nelson

Selfie w our pride and joy

"There is my cute boy.", Love, Mom

(Just in time for you to go to bed with warms thoughts of the finest and most handsome missionaries in the MTC.) -From Aunt Sheila (and Paige had texted me a this picture as well. We received it from them on Sunday night. Keller had gotten to email home to let them know he would be calling on Tuesday morning, because his flight plans were scheduled for that coming morning to leave for Atlanta, Georgia!
Jaron told me in our emails back and forth today this today....
 
"So actually me and Keller were in the same residency and on the same

floor!! We have actually kinda been hanging out at night when we have

a little free time!! But he flew out this morning so I said bye to him

last night after zone prayer!! It is so awesome here and the spirit is

unreal."

"It's all been a great/spiritual

experience so far😌" -Elder Rose