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1st MTC letter

1st Letter from the MTC

September 18, 2009

Dearest familia,
It honestly feels like I have been ere for at least a month. The days are so long and they always are wanting you to be busy. The Spanish is slowly coming back but I feel like it’s going to take forever to start to be somewhat fluent. Sometimes I feel way over burdened but the spirit calms me.
Me and my companion get along great and we are like way good friends already. He is from West Jordan. My district is all way cool too. We are way close already and are all friends. Me, Mike, and Sinj ate lunch one day but I don’t really see them a lot. They don’t give us very much time to write letters or anything. But got 2 go…
The food is good but gives you way bad gas. Everyone here farts.
Love you all
Elder Whitney

September 23, 2009

September 23, 2009
　
Thanks so much for writing me back as soon as you got my letter cause really getting letters is like the most exciting part of the day and you get to rub it in the other elders faces. Ya sorry I forgot to tell you my companions name, his name is Cameron Scott Nieves (Elder Nievas). He played lacrosse in SLC and I guess was pretty good. We both like a lot of the same music and were always singing songs but inserting church words in them so they are appropriate. Thanks so much for the pictures I will send some with this letter I printed out at the bookstore. Today is my first P day and it is awesome. We go to the temple every Wednesday morning and so this morning we ate at our cafeteria then went to the temple, and the temple cafeteria is amazing and cheap, so we ate there again right after. I had a huge waffle with blueberries and whipped cream. One of my teachers Hermosa Nava is amazing. We only have 2 teachers and one classroom for all 8 weeks. It fits 12 guys all form our district in a room about as small as Brigham’s room. Were in the classroom everyday for about six hours, so it gets a little old. The Spanish is tough but so far we have just caught up to what I’ve learned in all 3 years of high school.
The spirit here is so strong that I literally go to bed at night with a burning bosom. The gospel is so simple and it makes sense so much here. I feel like I have been here for at least a month its crazy. The days feel like weeks, but the weeks feel like days. Our district is all like athletic and we all feel like we could be brothers. Its been good but extremely tough too. The first week has been the longest of my life. We are already required to pray in Spanish, and to bear our testimonies in Spanish too. We always have so much to do its overwhelming and can get pretty stressful sometimes. We have to teach our first lesson Friday to a teacher and we have to do three contacts in Spanish too.

Here’s Spanish
( I was trying to read Zacks writing - so I probably haven’t typed it right)
Yo se que Dios es nuesiro padre y yo se que cristo vive, y Joseph Smith fue in prueta yo se que la lilies es verdadero, el evanangelio es ur bendacerio. En mivide.


Excellente Calidad

Ya, me and Mike eat lunch all the time, I don’t see Sinj that much but just saw him half hour ago.