Hellllooooo Everyone,
Lets see.. This week has been so crazy. its gone so fast, yet so extremely slow. i am enjoying it though. i am getting the language better, and i'm able to understand what people are saying at least. lets see, i can pray, bear testimony, recite the first vision, and contact all in spanish so i am learning pretty quick considering i didn't really know anything before. i'm sitting in the laundry room right now next to my companion, Elder Lovett, from Canada/California, as if it matters. i don't know what to say. i did have a really amazing experience last night i could talk about. well a couple. first, i taught the first lesson on the restoration to two other Elders, and i didn't have time to look at the lesson so we went into it really quite unprepared, which was actually apparently the point. we started and when i started to talk, the spirit just hit so hard, and even though it was just roleplay, there was an amazing and powerful spirit which you could see in each other as we spoke and testified. i was amazed at how the story of the restoration still gets me, no matter how many hundreds of times i've heard it. second, one of our roomates, Elder Mills, finally went to his mission in mexico after 16 weeks in the MTC for visa issues. so last night, our entire floor, about 50 or so guys, crowded into a tiny room and we sang spanish hymns at the tops of our lungs, in reverance of course. the spirit there was so incredible as well, and it was cool to see so many great men gathered together as a chorus singing the lords hymns in a language that isn't even theirs. you don't see that anywhere else. thirdly, this one is funny. my companion snores like a bear, even worse than dad. so last night, after 2 hours of not sleeping and going insane i had had enough. I jumped off my top bunk, walked over to his bed and shook him. he did not even budge. so, being smart as i am not, i reached up and grabbed his nose and plugged it. he jumped about four feet in the air after realizing he couldn't breathe, and i just said, Elder, roll over or something, you are driving me insane. needless to say, the MTC is full of funny experiences which i wish i could share. i did get to go to the temple today, which was comforting seeing something familiar, and i bought a picture of our temple at home to make me feel better. i love this place, and i wish i had more time to tell you all about it. but i don't. so I love you all, and i miss you. Pray for the missionaries, please, cause there are guys who need it far far more than I.
Ps. mom my teachers are Hermana Borghalthaus, (from Boise) and Hermano Galan (from ecuador)
Adios familia y amigos,
Elder Larson
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