Elder Moore

MTC WEEK 2

Dear Family!

Greetings from the MTC! Today is going to be a wonderful day with conference and I am really excited to hear what the Prophets have to say and also what the Lord has to say. It feels a tad different to listen to General Conference as a missionary alongside hundreds of others, but I am very excited. I am writing this email in the few minutes before we go to the gymnasium. It's at 10 o clock here! That's so weird to me! In my mind it started at 9 but that's only in Oregon. Oh, also, for Priesthood the MTC men are not singing, they decided to choose BYU choir or something like that. A tad disappointing but none the less, I am still excited. 

 Heading to the Provo Temple on preparation day (P-day).

This week seemed to go by a little faster. I am sleeping a little better than last week but I am still constantly tired. I am really a morning person though and this schedule made me realize that. The hardest time to stay awake though is between 7-8, our last hour of class. I have not fallen asleep yet but many in our district have. 

Kyle and his companion, Elder Lunt.

Spanish is interesting. A lot of double words and forms, but it also seems to make more sense than English. In my mind saying "the power of God" makes more sense and flows easier than "God's power." Its very interesting. The language is coming along. The Gift of Tongues is real because even though we think we don't remember everything, as soon as we get into lessons of our investigator, the recall rate of what you learned or did is phenomenal. My spanish is still VERY broken because I haven't gotten the hang of past tense preterite and imperfect verbs but I can get the point across rather easily. I keep praying and keep studying and that really helps. 

Kyle's "district" -- all of them heading to South America in a month.

The food here is okay. You have to be careful what you eat, I tend to lean towards more fruit stuff because I know they can't ruin that very easily. Oh! The Most embarrassing thing happened to me. I was getting chocolate milk in a glass. I set it down and on the counters there a these "railings" where you slide your tray along it and they are only about a half an inch raised, anyway, I set my milk down accidentally on one of those railings and Woosh! It went everywhere. Including me. I drenched my entire left side in chocolate milk. My white shirt was no longer white, and my pants where no longer dry and my socks and shoes were no longer silent when I walked. Squish squish. Anyway i tried to clean it up with napkins and I went and told a worker what i did and she laughed and said "just leave it there, we will get it" So I had to walk over, grab my tray, and just leave it there. I felt so bad, I didn't want someone else to clean it up. But that's what they told me to do, so oh well. :/ I did get the stains out of the shirt and the pants and socks and shoes. My slacks are thankfully washable so I just washed them today and let them hang dry since they are featherweight. So yeah, that was my embarrassing moment. But I laugh about it. 

Quiet time is supposed to start at 10:15, that is when we are supposed to have our time with the Lord but nobody goes to bed till lights out around 10:30, so I just wait till then and have a good 15-20 minutes before I go to bed. I am a big believer in this "appointment with the Lord" every night. I look forward to it. Even though its supposed to be lights out at 10:30, I have this little desk lamp I use and I figure that if I have to stay up 15 minutes later to get some quiet one on one time with the Lord then that is okay and I will be blessed for it. I already have been.

Kyle and Elder Lunt in their MTC dorm room.

Thank you for the letters and DearElder´s I absolutely LOVE THEM. They keep me grounded and going.  

I have a great time with my district, they are fun people. I love my companion, we work well together. 

With Love, 

Elder Moore

AKA Elder Más