Hi Mom and family,
So we weren’t able to receive any dear elders for five days and no one sends me hand written letters:( haha. So I haven't received a letter for six days now. I feel like everyone has forgotten about me haha jk. Yes Nate Gersberger got here yesterday. He is in my building on the first floor next to Preston so we hung out last night a little. He is only here for three weeks though and then he goes to the Peru MTC, lucky him. This week has gone by fast except for the not being able to receive dear elders. Your package was great last week though and I was able to eat all the jam before it started going bad and the grapes made it this time.
Yesterday I jammed my finger way bad in basketball and we thought it may be broken because it is very big and bruised pretty bad and I couldn't even tie my tie so they sent me to the ER and they took an X-ray it wasn't broken just badly jammed so I can’t play sports with my hand for two weeks now:( I think it should recover faster than that though.
How is everything going at home? Mom, I’m glad that you are finally becoming good at the iPhone. You'll begin to love it and not want to live without it after you have had it for a while. Thanks for looking for a Spanish picture book for me. I was wondering if you could check and see how much Perfect Pushups are because I would really like some. Preston is doing well and he says he loves being here and is having the best time! We are the oldest district in our zone now and so we'll probably have to give talks this Sunday in Spanish. I write a talk every week in Spanish just in case I get called but this week I definitely could get called. Writing talks are becoming a lot easier now and I can write a five minute talk in Spanish in about an hour. This week we all received the Ensign to read. It is a special ensign on the Book of Mormon and is explains the Book of Mormon really well. It is good for me because I don’t really understand what is going on in the Book of Mormon sometimes so it is helping to clarify things. It would be good for you to read too mom because sometimes you don’t understand what is happening in the Book of Mormon. It is pretty funny, I have never wanted to read an Ensign in my life or have ever read an Ensign all the way through but now that I’m here at the MTC it is awesome to read because the only other things we get to read is the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel. Our whole district was pretty excited when we heard we would need to read Octobers Ensign.
On Tuesday night we had a fireside and Elder Ballard and his wife came and spoke to us. It was pretty awesome. I have been able to see two apostles while I’ve been here. I am pretty lucky. His wife bore her testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. It was nice to hear. Elder Ballard talked about the importance of a mission and a little about his mission. After Tuesday night devotionals we share our testimony in front of the some of the branch presidency and I was giving mine and I said Ballard not Elder Ballard and the president got mad at me and said its "ELDER BALLARD" haha. I was like ok, sorry and then right after he said that I called my companion Nelson not Elder Nelson. He didn't say anything about that one but I knew he was probably thinking something. So this week I’m going to work on calling people Elder and Sister. It’s hard to get used to because you feel kind of weird calling people by Elder when they are all your age. Elder Ballard shared a story of him on his mission. When he first got to England on his mission they were having two missionaries speak in front of 500 people. Elder Ballard didn't think he would get called because he was new and had just gotten there but, he was called. He was super nervous and didn't really know what to talk about. He decided to talk about baptism. He got up and said everything he knew about baptism. It only lasted a minute and a half and then he was done. He felt so horrible that he had not prepared himself properly for a mission and he didn't take scripture study seriously. He knelt down that night and prayed for forgiveness and promised Heavenly Father that he would work hard at learning the gospel and from that point on he would get up extra early and study the scriptures. This was nice to hear because it lets me know that even apostles struggle and had hard times speaking and learning but, with hard work their weaknesses became strengths.
I'll write you a hand written letter today. Fix my spelling and grammar in this e-mail haha. I’m getting worse and worse at English after studying Spanish all day.
I love you guys so much and pray for you all the time!
Love
Elder Mouritsen
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