Week 1 Provo MTC
On Jul 26, 2017
1:21 PM, "Tyler Layne Batty" <tyler.batty@myldsmail.net> wrote:"Arrived at the MTC, went through some orientation stuff and got my tag and id badge. For those of you who know steve barton is, i saw him and said hi. I met another kid from morgan that recognized me as the tight end from payson and we talked for a second about my ejection from the previous game. Now we have some time to write a brief email home but nothing too exciting has happened. I will keep you all updated as things pick up!"
July 29, 2017
Hola! Como estan todos?
So week one, not even a full week, is in the books! It's crazy how fast they dump you into everything, the first night I got here we taught investigators. Since then it's been days that seem like weeks but are awesome at the same time. We have already begun our language study, and our teacher hasn't said one word in english, so currently learning spanish is extremely hard and takes a lot of focus and patience. Especially since me and mi companero gave our first full blown lesson to an actual investigator in spanish last night. Her name is maria and shes from argentina, most of our lesson consisted of reading the outline we wrote but there were a few moments that We communicated in spanish without looking at anything that were totally awesome. We are consistently praying in spanish and can bear our testimony in spanish as well. It's brings in a cool spirit when you testify in a different language. The two days were extremely hard and now I understand why a lot of missionaries have troubles lasting a week, you have to stay completely focused on why you are here and the lessons they are teaching or else you get caught up in memories of home and it messes with your head. You really have to immediately adopt a new style of life and just GO TO WORK. But it's amazing how much you can learn and your mentality when your constantly focused on being in the service of others. My companion elder Randall is from Davis and is going to Spain, Malaga as well. Our roommates elder Christensen is from Nephi and is headed to Costa Rica along with elder Hansen who is from Denver. Last night we stayed up pretty late kinda telling stories and turns out elder Hansen is from a pretty wealthy area in Denver and has driven a guys in his neighborhood 458 spyder and hit like 140-150 in it on their toll road to the airport. To say the least I was jealous, then elder Randall chimes in and tells me that he drove his neighbors huracan 540 so I'm surrounded by a bunch of super car drivers but they're awesome guys. Yesterday we got exercise time so we went and played basketball 3-3 which was lame and you can't touch the rim or net or backboard. :/ today we get more exercise time as well and they actually have a small weight room with some dumbbells but they only go to 70 :/ and some benches but I'm grateful they have one. That's not the reason I'm here anyway, but Isaac rex one of our signees this year is here at the mtc and it was awesome to see him and there's quite a few other people I know but you don't get to see anyone to often because there are so many people here. It's nuts. The foods okay and I'm eating pretty healthy but this morning at the temple after our session I broke down and ate some cheesecake with my breakfast lol. Overall it's good, and I can't wait to get in the field.
I love all of you!
Adios
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