Companionship Trio: Elder Welker, Elder Jones & Elder Martin
Dear Family and Friends,
¡Hola! Everything has been just
great out here in the CCM, and I can´t believe how fast time has already
gone by. Just to get right to it though, this week has been full of
experiences. Elder Welker was sick for four or so days with a cold of
sorts, so it was mostly just me and Elder Jones in a normal duo
companionship. I was able to seal an anointing for Elder Welker though,
which was my first priesthood blessing ever. I´m not sure what I said,
but I know that the Spirit was saying stuff through me, and that was
quite the experience. It was a great way to serve my companion as well,
and he is feeling fine since yesterday! Indeed, spiritual blessings have
been abounding this week.
A few days ago, my Spanish Teacher came up to
me and promised me that if I was obedient and clean, I would be fluent
by the time I left the MTC. High praise, let´s hope I don´t make a liar
out of him! Reading the scriptures has been a whole new experience as an
Elder too, I have been learning everyday here. But otherwise, things
are going along rather normally, there´s not much else to say. Things
with the compañeros have been great, and we´re getting along really
well. I forgot to mention last time by the way that Elder Jones is going
to El Salvador and Elder Welker to Dallas.
I have been making friends
with other Elders in my Casa though, like Elder Ballard (no relation to
the apostle) from a small town in Utah who's a second degree black belt. We´ve had a lot of cool conversations about martial arts and history
and what not. He´s headed to NYC. Also, Elder Nelson, who is an author who is planning to publish his fantasy novels upon return from his mission. We´ve been
talking frequently about his plot lines and philology, and the creative
process in general. It seems I´m learning just about everything here
at the CCM! I´ve been making a bit of an impression on the place though.
Elder Jones is the most well known Elder here, he has that sort
of funny guy air about him and he
relates stuff I say to others, like the tradition of our "P-Day Eve" for
example. Last night we had a¨"Fiesta" in our casa as a P-Day eve party,
with everyone binging snacks they brought from the little store they
have here and sharing them (they give us a small amount of funds every
week, I save mine up for P-Day eve). Apparently the tradition is
spreading, as we were invited to another P-Day eve party a few days ago,
and it was quite fun. Ah, Missionaries, crazy, aren´t they?
This isn´t
to say I haven´t been working a bunch though, we have classes all day
from 8 to 9:30,
and we´re doing something at nearly every moment. Gym time is really a
nice break though, I´ve been getting a lot better at volleyball and
little bits of futbol. But I´m way stoked for Conference, we´re watching
every session and I´ll never get the chance to watch Conference from an
MTC ever again, so I´m gonna take full advantage of it. Feel free to
send me your own favorite thoughts from conference, I´d love to hear
them!
Regards,
Elder Martin
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