Hello everyone!  I hope you've all been having a great week!  I'm loving here at the MTC! Everyone is super nice and friendly, the food is decnet, and the basketball is actually very good! The Korean branch has 111 members so we have a lot of really good basketball players out of that group.  There are 9 other missionaries in my district.  My companions, four other elders, and three sisters.  I love them all so much! We always make sure that we study dilligently, but at the same time we have a lot of fun together, which is important for staying sane.  The other day we tried to have a Korean rap battle, which was difficult because we pretty much only know how to talk about the gospel...

A word of advice for everyone: Be diligent in all of your studies, both gospel, and not gospel.  When you are working hard with limited distractions it allows you to learn quicker and have the spirit as your teacher. And I've really felt that the last week.  Korean is tough but the progress I've made on the language while in the MTC is out of this world! I probably speak almost as much Korean as Spanish and I took that for 2 years...  It is such a beautiful language too, it flows nice, everything pretty much ends in imnida so it all rhymes, and it sounds smooth.  I teach in full Korean pretty much everyday now.  I also say all of my prayers in Korean.  I feel like because I have to think harder to say what I want it keeps my prayers from being repetitive and makes them more meaningful. I invite all of you to try it this week, it isn't too hard ;)

We also had two really good devotionals this week.  We got to hear from Brother Watson, he's is the man in charge of the MTC curriculum.  He invited a recent convert to get up and speak to us, and share his testimony, which was way cool, the spirit was so strong in the meeting when the convert was speaking.  We also got to hear from President Maynes of the Quorum of the 70.  He had a lot of cool experiences about missionary work, which was awesome.  One thing I really liked about his talk was he said that we have to have the courage to talk to and invite everyone to come unto Christ, and because of that I made it a goal to talk to random people that I see throughout my day.

I hope you all know I love you guys and you are all awesome!  Remember Christ is always there to pick you up when you're down.  He loves you so much and wants to help you.  Turn to him in everything you do and I promise it'll be easier!