Hola Family and Friends!
Crazy enough, yesterday was the halfway point
for me at the MTC, dang these weeks are flying by! This week was hard though
because everyone in our district, and most of our zone were fighting things
like pink eye, the flu, laryngitis, and lots of coughs, so being so close
together for class was a little uncomfortable(I only got a cough thankfully).
But the good news is that Elder Pixton and I committed Nicola(our teacher
acting as an investigator) to baptism, which was awesome because she was a
super anti-religious person when we first met her! Our goal is to do the same
for Alan(TRC volunteer, so he may or may not be a member, since they don't tell
us) and Sergio, our other investigators, by the end of the week.
Another cool thing this week was teaching Spanish
members. We had this cool old guy named Hermano Grittiths(I couldn't pronounce
it for some reason haha), who served in Uruguay and the Air force, and told us
this awesome story of him being healed by a priesthood blessing when he got
either polio or meningitis(or could be both...the days are long here so I
totally forgot). We also talked to a temporarily returned missionary who broke
his back when he fell off a chapel roof he was working on in Peru(crazy but
true haha). Overall it was just cool for a change to teach people who want to
talk about the gospel.
So some of you asked about my schedule here at
the MTC so here it goes:
6:30- I wake up, roll over so I can try to say
a prayer without falling asleep again, and get ready for the day
7:15-Breakfast, where I usually eat blueberry
bagels and some oatmeal and juice(Apparently the orange juice is messed up
here, but nothings happened yet so I guess its safe).
7:45 Class with Hermana Savage until lunch, we
usually practice lessons and spanish
12:20 to 3:20 Study time, with an hour for
personal, companion and language study(funny story about that, the other day I
fell asleep on accident during personal study, and when I woke up I fell
forward and knocked my books off the table haha, luckily I'm usually good at
staying awake)
3:20 to 4:20 Gym time, I usually play either
BBall or sand volleyball with the district, or run around the tiny track here(I
miss Washington trails :/)
4:50 Dinner
5:30 to 9 Class with Hermano Ostler(Who’s from Olympia I found
out)
9-9:30 Planning for tomorrow, or doing DL
interviews with the elders in the district
9:30 to 10:30 Brushing teeth/and goofing
around with other people in zone and on our floor before bed.
So yea, pretty crazy days here haha. Ok to
explain the Alien jello, one day last week I was talking with Elder Mair (he's
from Heber, and sorta has the body type of a smaller hulk, he's pretty huge
from wrestling) when he tried to eat his jello he got for lunch. It was so
dense though that we ended up bouncing grapes off of it into a bowl, and
testing to see how high you could drop it without it breaking, which it never
did. Basically, now I stay away from the Jello unless I want to hit someone
with a grape across the table.
Overall, it’s been a great week of learning,
having devotionals and getting to know our district and zone better, and most
importantly, becoming more spiritually prepared to teach the people of
Barcelona!
Miss you all!
Elder Taylor Moulton
PS Thank you President Millard for the
Cupcakes! And thank you family for the awesome package, I ate like half the Reeses
already!
Elder Pixton and I by the temple on Sunday
This might look weird, but this is the famous Cream Soda Tree, which seriously smells like Butterscotch or caramel for some strange reason!
Bored in class - we spend like 12 hours a day in here!
Thanks for all the awesome letters!
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