What a week!

It's been quite the week, 5 days in and my companion dislocated his shoulder, yep that's where I'm at right now. I'll get into the details a little later. Also I apologize for the lack of photos. I'm working on it, change takes time.


   This week has been a blast! I was so nervous coming in on Wednesday, just curious. I didn't know what was gonna happen. It turns out the MTC is super awesome! The environment is so happy and I can't help but smile. Our district is so close. Every time we meet up to share what we've learned, it gets so emotional. Everyone has their struggles and we're all learning from each other which is just so awesome. I absolutely love it here and will be sad to go, 

   I think it's so crazy that I've grown so close to people I've known for like 14 days, it's crazy how close you can get to people going through the same things as you. I'm convinced our district is truly amazing. I mean even our teachers and branch leaders are saying our group is special haha. 

   I love the meals here, there's so much to have and it's all pretty good. I don't know why most people don't like it, they kinda crazy. I've started eating a lot more than I did before so that's a pretty good start, I just can't wait to see what I look like in 2 years. I've had like 2 creamies everyday, that's probably not good, but it'll be fine I exercise everyday now. 

   My companion Elder Ross is so cool. He is so nice and is always thinking of others. He sets such an amazing example, except for the arm dislocation of course. He is so amazing. He is exactly what I needed for the MTC experience and I can't thank the Lord enough.

  OK shoulder story time: this happened Monday evening at the gym, it's not a super crazy story He kinda just fell on it, playing basketball. It happened at like 8:40 pm. We had to get it checked out at the MTC, then security took us to the ER and we had to wait a pretty long time to get my companion seen. His shoulder was way down just kinda chillin out of its socket. You couldn't tell by looking at it though, but the X-ray is pretty bad. It took a very long time to get done. That's just because the hospital was busy that night. He was really nice and open the whole time we were there. Even though he was in pain, he would still talk to everyone and even shared the gospel a little bit. He wanted to pray for everyone and just get to know all the people helping him. He had to get sedated to get it popped back into place, he was supposed to go to sleep but he just kept yapping on and on, so he wasn't asleep when they popped it backed into place but he didn't feel it. We got back at our dorms at 1:39 AM. We woke up at 6:30 AM so I was pretty tired but it's alright. This event is pretty odd I'd say, we're missing class tomorrow morning to go to some appointments for his arm. So that's kinda sad, but oh well it's fine 

   It's been so awesome but pretty rough at the same time, this is such a drastic change for me. I'm having a hard time improving, I do so good sometimes and other times its just a major step back. I just wish I could be myself and accept who I am but it's so hard sometimes. I really have learned so much but I worry I won't be ready to leave I'm just back tracking so much and I don't know what's up. I honestly don't know why I'm putting this in my email, I don't like to share these things but maybe I need to share, so I can grow and get stronger. 

   I miss my family so much and I can't wait to hug them, I know things get hard but I have greater faith in the Lord, He has a path for me and I'll do whatever it takes to get back to Him. He sees my potential and trusts me to achieve it. Cuz When things are easy you're not growing, trials make growth a possibility.....  I've just got to remember to smile.


Ya know I typed all this stuff earlier, fast forward 6 hours and I feel pretty great, I had a blast playing volleyball, ping pong, Jenga and what not. There's gonna be lots of ups and downs, I just need to take my time getting up the slopes. You really just can't rush perfection. Don't get too upset though cuz ya can't have it in this life ether.

I love yall

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