Nathan's first letter from MTC 2010 Sept 11

Hello All!
Here is Nathan's PO box while in the Provo MTC:

Elder Nathan T Froelich
MTC Mailbox # 288
GUA-QUE 1109
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604-1793

Now here is the latest:

Hola Familia!! First, of all, I only have 30 minutes to email you guys so this is probably going to be pretty short.

I got to Utah safely. I almost decided to talk to a guy on the plan that I was sitting next to and I really wanted to but I was really tired from waking up at 4:30am so I decided not to. He seemed really cool though and I could have planted a seed so I am regretting that. Good lesson to learn though.

When I got to the airport, I met up with 5 other missionaries going to the MTC and we all rode together to Provo. I got to the MTC about 2 hours early and mostly just chilled in a room with my teacher and an Elder who also got there early named Elder Alston from Virginia.

This week so far has been so great. It seems like all of the days are lasting way longer than they normally would but I love it. Everyone who I've ever talked to has said that it starts to go by faster after your first Sunday here. So I'm kind of looking forward to that. I love the schedule here too. With all of the stuff that I have to do here, I am always tired by 10:30 and I wake up a little before 6:30 anyway so it works out really well. The spirit is so strong here though. Constantly studying the gospel and praying for the spirit to be with us helps a lot.

My companion's name is Elder Pigott and he's from right here in Provo. He knows a lot of the people here in the MTC because he went to high school with a lot of them. We are really different people and we don't always agree on how things should be done because I guess that we just have different styles so it just takes a little more effort to come to decisions. He's a good Elder though and he definitely has a testimony so that's good.

My district is also really great. There are 11 of us and we sit with each other at all of the meals and go to gym together so there are always enough people to have teams. I almost have "My Purpose" for missionaries memorized in Spanish too! I even had one elder who was in my BYU ward in the fall named Elder Mace so that's really cool as well. The Elders in my district are going to Vin De Mar, Chile, North Managua Nicaragua (or something like that), and it's just Elder Pigott and I who are going to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

The Spanish is going pretty well too. I think that it helps that I took a little bit in high school. Today, one of the teachers said something like "move the tables into the other room" and I understand basically everything that he said and I at least got the gist of it. I've had a little bit of a head cold ever since I've been here so I'm not allowed to shake hands with anyone and I take a lot of pills to control everything but it looks like I am on the getting better side of things today. I've only had to blow my nose like 3 times!

I'm leaving for Guatemala on September 28 so in just two and a half weeks! So that will be great. And it looks like I am going to get my second hepatitis A shot in two Thursdays. Elder Pigott said that his hurt a lot going in so I guess that we will see how that goes. I'll keep you updated on exactly how much it hurts so that you guys can have the heads up if you guys ever need one.

And it looks like I have less than 3 three minutes left and I've still got to do my laundry but I'm doing great! No need to worry about me.

I love you guys!

Elder Froelich

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