Today is my preparation day and all of the missionaries here are jealous and surprised because I only arrived on Wednesday. Most missionaries have to wait a long time. For example, Elder Jacob Ulrich had to wait about a week.
I arrived on Wednesday and I dropped off my stuff in my residence before proceeding to the classroom. When I got to the classroom, there was only one Elder in there. His face looked very familiar to me. After some talking, I found out his name is Elder Leonardo (Leo) Fuchs (Fooks). For my soccer friends, this is the same Leo that played forward for Utah FC. It was very nice to have someone that I vaguely knew and someone who had the same interests as me. Elder Fuchs is going to Mozambique Africa speaking Portuguese. We didn't see any other missionaries in our branch until later that night.
We are in an international district, which means that, in our classroom, there are 5 elders and 2 sisters, and the languages consist of these : English, Portuguese, Russian, German, Tagolag (?), Mandarin, French, Tongan, and another Filipino language. All of the lessons aretaught in English and there is no language study time bcause we are all "fluent" in our proselytin language. I am basically the only one that is not totally fluent.
Yesterday we had class time and some devotionals with our branch.
The biggest thing that has happened to me is that Elder Fuchs and I were made zone leaders. So, we get to do a lot of things for the other Elders.
Elder Underwood and Elder Fuchs
General information about the MTC:
-It is the greatest place I have ever been (besides the temple)
-There is no intimidation because everyone is genuinely nice and loving
-The food is good and we eat like kings
-We are very busy but I have been able to follow the schedule so far!
-Here, we are basically in class learning or in the cafeteria eating.
Things that I don't like:
-the toilet paper dispensers
-Elders that run around the hallways yelling at each other after lights-out
I have a lot of friends here in the MTC and I have basically seen about everyone I know. Yesterday I got to see Elder Jacob Ulrich. Elder Ulrich was the senior class president and worked closely with Marshall all last year. I don't have a card reader yet so I am not able to send pics. I will get one and I will have the other elders send pics to my mom. And they did :)
Elder Underwood and Elder Ulrich
I have found that the thing that I know of absolute surety is that God loves all of us. And because he loves us, he sent His Son to die for our sins and weaknesses and the power of God is here on the earth today.
I can already feel that my heart is changing. For the better.
Until next week!
Love,
Under Elderwood
P.S. Marshall also said in a separate email that because they don't have district leaders trained - yet - he hasn't received any of his letters that were written through dearelder.com - but he will probably get them today.
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