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| This is all of the elders and soeurs in my district! We are all learning French together, and they are pretty awesome people. We are right outside of the Provo temple, which is gigantic, right after we went through it. |
Hullo Mudda! This was pretty much my first real week in the MTC, and it has been awesome! Oh and I did get your Dear Elder thing, and it was pretty great to have an actual letter.
It's been kinda crazy here as we finally figured out how our companionship's would split after Elder K left, but now I am officially Elder Furness's companion. Speaking of Elder Furness, he has been sick ever since he got here, and he started throwing up on Wednesday. I gave him a blessing and he went to sleep and woke up the next morning ready to go. It was perfect timing, because we had another lesson that afternoon, and it was our last one with Lola (who is now actually our teacher). It was pretty stressful, because we decided to go into that lesson without our notes, and we just tried to teach with the Spirit and the limited French we know. It was pretty rocky and we didn't say everything completely right, but the Spirit was there! And now I can officially say I've experienced the gift of tongues. Elder Furness and I were able to speak confidently, and we understood her questions. I still have a long ways to go though!
Our schedules here are always super full. We have class about 6 hours a day, and we spend our free time studying, exercising, or eating. The food here is actually pretty good! It is more a buffet style, but it is always good. The lines here are SO long! It is actually pretty nice though, because I can use the time to study my flash cards and talk to other missionaries. It's crazy when you walk into the cafeteria, because there are conversations in all kinds of different languages, and we can't understand any of them haha.
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| This is what one of our normal study sessions look like. These tables are everywhere, so whenever we have a little extra time we set up wherever we can find shade. |
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| This is my companion Elder Furness thinking about his girlfriend... haha no we were planning our lesson. |
I did join choir, and it is one of my favorite things of the entire week! The choir director is awesome and he always tells us stories about prophets and church leaders around Joseph Smith's time as he teaches.
We got to hear from an Apostle this week!!!! We were watching a video by Elder Bednar called The Character of Christ (please watch it, it is incredible) and right after it ended guess who walked in? Elder Bednar! We had a Q and A session with him, and he had a powerful spirit with him. We also got to meet his wife and she was a sweetheart. We also had a member of the 70 speak to us named Elder Sitati. He spoke on the doctrine of Christ, and how we are to live it.
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| There are like 50 flagpoles, and they finally put up the Canadian flag so we had to take a picture by it. |
The elders that are on the same floor as me in my residence hall are insane! It is great to speak with them though, because they all love the work and are ready to serve. We have some funky traditions now like cantiques and kicking a ninja turtle seat all the way around our building and pretty much anything you can think of haha. They have made sure to make us feel welcome by coming by our room and introducing themselves. Some of them even dropped off cookies and study games! A bunch of them are leaving on Monday which is sad, but we get to follow them soon, and I am ready to go.
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| Outside of the new building (which is beautiful and where all of my classes are). |
French is hard, but it is fun to devote yourself to learning something like a language. At least I can finally understand my teacher! It is pretty tough to form sentences in French because they are set up differently than the English sentence structure. I'll need to learn it quick because we already have our next investigator! She is really a teacher from the MTC, but as our investigator she is Romanian. An Albanian refugee that is learning French and has a fiancée and a 6 month old child. I am excited to share with her!
I have been able to wake up 30 minutes early here to work out in the morning (we even have a pull up bar right outside our room), and then we have an hour of exercise time on most days. I have been playing basketball, running, playing volleyball, and even 4-square haha. Elder Cortez actually did Cross Fit in Mexico, so he has been working out with me quite a bit. He refuses to get up with me in the morning though haha!
Good work Perry! You are going to be an awesome dancer, and I am only a little jealous that you can already do a standing backflip!
One of the most important things I have been realizing this week is the power of the Book of Mormon. Nothing is more relaxing than opening it up and sitting down to focus on the word of the Lord. Remember how lucky we are to have it! I love you all, and I will write again in a week!
-Elder Wilson
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