2010 Oct 6

2010 Oct 6 PM

¡Hola Familia!

I still couldn´t figure out how to push the enter button.  The one that they have here doesn´t do the same thing.

Sorry last week's was so disjointed and short.  With all of the confusion of having a million new missionaries, I only had 4 minutes to write and send a letter.  This is week is better though.  I went to the temple this morning and that was really cool.  The English session of the temple filled up with the person right before me and so I got to go to do the session in Spanish instead.  The rooms in the temple are a lot smaller here too than anything that I´ve seen before.  It was good though.  I didn´t really understand very much but it was all good.  I didn´t fall asleep or anything.  I also liked conference a lot too.  I liked that one from, I think, Elder Christopherson(sp).  I don´t really remember what it was about but I liked it a lot.  I thought it was really cool that a lot of the talks in conference were directed to the missionaries.  Right after the Sunday sessions in General conference, the MTC mission president gave us another little fireside on obedience.  I like him a lot.  What I got from it was that all of the commandments and rules that we are given are really just for our freedom.  Disobeying them never brings long term happiness and by having rules, God gives us more opportunities for him to bless us.  He´s a really great mission president.  There seemed to be a lot of talks in conference on obedience which I thought was cool because obedience to all of the rules is really what they try and pound into your head here at the MTC.

It´s really humbling to try and speak Spanish in another country because even when I think that I am doing good at speaking Spanish, you see all of the native Spanish speakers talking to each other and not being about to understand what they are saying.  Pero, esta bien because humility is a good thing.

Guatemala is really great.  This MTC is way smaller than the one in Provo but that means that we get to have more time with the president so that´s definitely really cool.  I have two Latino roommates- Elder Guillon and Elder Monroy.  Elder Monroy is from Mexico and is really good at English. He just pronounces some words funny but it´s really good.  And Elder Guillen is really fun because he tries to learn English words all the time and then say them to us.  The MTC is really close the temple because it doubles as kind of like a hotel for people to stay at while they go to the temple.

Elder Steele is really great.  He´s from Salt Lake and we are at about the same level of Spanish.  He´s a lot like me.  He´s really funny and crazy but he´s got a really good testimony of the gospel and he knows when to be serious.  He went to University of Utah.

I am just about out of time but know that I am doing well.  I hope you guys are doing well too! Anyway, have a great week!

I love you guys!