Week 2

Hello everyone! Week 2 done!

Elder Stephan and I did our very first companion teaching to a non-member earlier this week and it went pretty well. We taught about how God is our loving Heavenly Father, how to pray, and the Plan of Salvation. It was in English so it wasn't super rough. However, tomorrow we have to teach for 25 minutes...in Spanish, so that's gonna be fun.

"¡Qué bendición!" is just a phrase that means "What a blessing!" that my Spanish teacher says after anything really good or really bad happens, and all of us have adopted that phrase now too.

My district is muy fantástico. Everyone is on top of it in terms of having great testimonies and learning Spanish. Elder Stephan and I have been called as the Music Coordinators of our branch, which has to be the easiest calling ever; we just gotta pick hymns, a pianist (which is probably gonna be me every week cause no one else plays), and a conductor every week for sacrament. Also I never have time to play piano cause there's no such thing as "free time" so I'm sad.

The whole district is part of the MTC choir, which consists of about 700 missionaries, and we perform at every Tuesday devotional. So far we've sang More Holiness Give Me and Joseph Smith's First Prayer, which have quickly become some of my favorite hymns ever. Also the director, Ryan Egget, has to be the best teacher ever; he's basically a comedian/gospel teacher for 50 minutes, and then a choir director for the other 10 minutes of practice.

To wrap things up, it's been awesome being in this routine of going to bed at 10:30pm and waking up at 6:30am every day instead of going to sleep in the AMs and waking up in the PMs. Also, contrary to what some people say, the MTC food is great; it's very diverse and tastes pretty good (although it's always cold by the time you start eating). And I'm starting to eat regularly and in bigger quantities and then exercising it off so I'm feeling great.

That about does it for this week. ¡Hasta luego!

Elder Terry

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1. Spanish class