August 12, 2017

Limbo, Bednar and Nada

Man I might struggle to keep you all entertained while reading this week's email. I'm finally in the groove here at the MTC and sadly, once you hit a groove, all the interesting things kinda stop happening. It's not boring here, just monotonous and boring to write about. Every morning I get up, eat food, go to class for 3 hours, eat more food, go to 3 more hours of class, eat again, exercise and of course have study time in between that all. So yeah that's what an MTC day looks like if you were wondering. And it happens every single day to the point that I couldn't tell what happened on Wednesday apart from Monday if you were to put my life on the line over it. They all just blurrrr together. It's like I'm living in this weird limbo state with no perception of time. 

There was one really noteworthy thing this week I guess. This last Sunday, the entire MTC watched a talk (prerecorded, not live) of Elder Bednar. It's called "The Character of Christ" and I 10/10 recommend it. It's incredible. The idea of it is that the Savior was perfectly selfless, and therefore in order to come to Christ and become converted to Him we need to be as selfless and charitable as possible as well. Anyways, after the talk we were asked to stay in our seats because Elder Bednar was there to do a surprise question and answer session with all of us. It was amazing. He had so many super insightful things to say and I loved it. I want you all to know that I know we are led by living prophets in the world today and I sustain them with both hands. They're inspired God-sent men. 

Well I guess my emails are getting worse and worse as the weeks go on. I can't for the life of me think of a funny story or something interesting to tell you all! Remember how I was supposed to teach for 45 minutes on Monday? Yeah, the lady didn't show up so that didn't happen. Don't worry though we did it on Thursday instead. Elder Fugal and I have gotten the point that 45 minutes in Spanish doesn't even phase us anymore. Only thing is we can only teach lesson. We have random people try to chit chat with us in Spanish and we never have any clue what they're saying or how to respond so there is definitely still room to improve (obviously).

I've literally sat and looked at this screen for five minutes trying to think of a story to entertain you all but I legit have nothing so I guess I don't have anything else to say. Sorry ‘bout that! I'll try and do something funny this upcoming week so my email isn't so lame. Also on a happy note I have ear plugs now so I don't have to worry about my tank of a roommate!!! Every now and then he overcomes the 33 decibels reduced by my plugs and I can still hear him so I guess that gives you an idea of how bad it actually is. I love you all and love hearing from you!!!

Hurrah for Israel!

Con amor,

Elder Nixon 

Here's the pics for the week. One is my district at the temple. The rest are all the people I've ran into during tours. It's kinda crazy seeing people I know but I guess when they invite all of Utah County to come to the MTC I'm bound to see a few people I know!

A mural in the MTC that Tucker loves.

Another MTC mural.