Ain't It Fun

Hello everyone, it is my first p-day at the MTC and it has been a crazy couple of days! I was dropped off on Wednesday after a pretty standard Provo morning (just the way I like it) and was immediately busy. When getting set up, one worker asked me if I had a brother serve in Southern California. I knew immediately that she was talking about my brother who served in Rancho Cucamunca, California a few years ago. She took a picture with me and said that her son served in the same place. It was really nice to have that piece of home to start my stay here. 

Speaking of here, the MTC has its ups and downs. First of all, it's way better than home mtc. I enjoyed being home, but the schedule and standards basically made it feel like it was just another apartment. Luckily, that one had my family in it. Now I'm on my own. Except I'm not, because I always have my companion with me. He's good when he gets going and we get along fine. My district is good too, and they kind of see me as a leader, which is funny because I am never the one to take charge. I was the only one with a map and schedule the first day, though, so I was able to get us where we needed to go, and almost on time too. I'm also the only one that's gone to college before the mission, but I'm somehow not the oldest.

A lot of missionaries say that the food is really bad here, but I think that it's fine. It's definitely better than anything I had in school. I've learned to not trust a lot of people here, especially some of the elders. There's a lot of yanked chains in the residence halls and I'm embarrassed to say I almost fell for some. Emphasis on almost. I did fall for one and it was the one that hurt the most. The chocolate milk is NOT infinite. There's lots of other drinks though.

Even though today was p-day, we have been super packed. We played soccer for a couple of hours this morning and we had a temple visit with 4 bus-loads of missionaries. It was long and I got a bit lost in the massive temple, but it was a good experience. 

When sitting on campus, lots of missionaries come up and speak to us in Spanish or Portuguese, and I actually understood a lot of both, which was pretty awesome. It may be my high school Spanish, but the gift of tongues is also very real here.

For a spiritual thought: we had a devotuonal with the mtc president about the character of Christ. They played a talk by Elder Bednar which said that the character of Christ is about looking outward when the natural man wants to look in. It means to sacrifice some of your cares and worries to help those of others. I am trying to apply that to my district and mtc experience and hopefully beyond, and invite all of you to do the same.

That's it for now, but not bad for my 3rd day. I'll keep you all informed and just know that any typos in this email is because the autocorrect on these phones is atrocious.

Ve con Dios,

- Elder Puzey

For picture(s):
The view from our classroom, pretty similar to the one from my college dorm just down the road



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