Friends and family,
Time is flying in the MTC! We have 6 hours of class every
day and 3 hours of language/scripture study and the rest of the time is meals
and a little exercise. Food here is less than ideal, but every once in a while
they have Papa Johns so that's definitely a blessing. I hear they bring in Taco
Bell sometimes, which is awesome because TB is life.
Learning Spanish takes tons and tons of work because, even
though I already feel comfortable communicating and understanding people, I'm
nowhere near fluent so I've got lots of work to do. Elder Christie and I (my
companion) try to memorize 8 words an hour, so we end up learning over 100
words a day. This week Elder Stevenson (one of the 12 apostles) came and spoke
to us about how to become more Christlike. He talked about humility, obedience,
diligence, and virtue, and how we can better work on each of those.
Some funny
Spanish things from this week was one of the elders in my class was trying to
say "God can forgive our sins", but accidentally said "God can
forgive our fish" because "pecado" and "pescado" are
prrreeetttyyyyyyy similar. So yeah that was a good time haha. Overall life here
has been pretty busy but loving it all the same.
There's tons of huge murals at the MTC and below is a
picture of my favorite one. It says "I will lead you along" with a
painting of disciples following Jesus. Everyone has their own problems and
struggles, but if we follow the example of Jesus Christ, he will walk with us
and lead us along through our struggles.
Until next week!
Elder Coleman
