Hi family,
Yes I got my luggage tags a long time ago. Sorry for not telling you. I thought I did but, I guess I didn't. I got your package yesterday and I got one from Kortney. I have so much food now it’s awesome! It was a great day for mail yesterday. I love my fall colored tie it will make me look festive haha. Ya, I hope the phone card works. It most likely will I just hope they still have pay phones at the airport. I have never used a pay phone in my entire life. I don’t even know what to do. Preston left this last week but Nate is still here. He is struggling with his companion I guess. I feel very blessed that I got a great companion we have become very good friends. I have become very good friends with all the people in my district. They are all like the brother I never had. I feel closer with them than some of my closest friends that I had in high school. I will miss all of them when I leave but hopefully we can all meet up again after the mission and hang out and speak Spanish with each other. I am a little nervous for the field not going to lie. I have finally gotten used to the MTC and now we are changing it up again. You can never get to settled as a missionary because then things become easy to you and people start slacking. I am very ready to get out of here though. It is hard to stay focused in here now and I feel like things are getting out of control. Mostly other districts in our zone are just going crazy. It’s like they are still in high school and they don’t have any idea what they are supposed to do so they just start doing things that 19 year old guys would do. I hope they figure out their priorities.
I think Whitney will have a boy.
This week is flying by. I have no idea where the time has gone. Yesterday was quite the day it was the last class time we had with Hermano McKinney so we all wrote him a letter saying how great a teacher he was and how much he taught us. I really enjoyed him as a teacher. We were his first district he ever taught so of course we were his favorite and probably always will be but, he loves us and we loved him. He taught me a lot about how to be a good teacher. He gave us all a tie that he had worn on his mission and wrote a little message in our journal so we would remember him. He is the teacher that served with Mitch Jones and he plays golf so maybe I can play golf with him when I get back, if I can even swing a club after my mission.
Last night was also Hermano McPhersons last night. We started class by teaching him for the last time. He has always been really hard to teach but I think he just likes to challenge us so we can be great teachers out in the real field. He is one of the most inspirational people I know. He ended the night by telling us his conversion story and it was pretty compelling. He is the only person in his whole entire family that is a member of the church, including even his extended family. He became a member when he was a senior in high school and never had any missionaries teach him. He was dating a girl that was about the only member in his whole school because he lived in a small town in Washington. He went to church with his girlfriend a few times and one of the times he went he was given a lesson on the plan of salvation and he was asked where we came from? He really pondered this question and knew what the teacher was saying was true and he could feel a Spirit talking to him. He then read the Book of Mormon in three weeks and went to the bishop and said “how do I get baptized”. He was baptized and his mother wept for hours he said, she is a super catholic. He is an only child and his mom’s miracle baby because she wasn't supposed to have kids. But, he knew that this church was true and no one could change his mind, not even his mother. It was a powerful story. He later served a mission and said it was the greatest experience he ever had. Of course I summarized the story but it was amazing to hear.
I love you family I have to go now.
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