Week 1 at the Mexico MTC - I Made It To My First PDay!!

Ah man, the first week done in the MTC feels good.

 

Mexico is crazy! They do fireworks all through out the night and they went crazy on the Day of the Dead with music and fireworks.

 

The MTC isn't that bad, it definitely took some time to get adjusted, but now I'm in a groove and everything is a lot easier.

 

We basically wake up and have classes all day long until we go to bed! But I actually love learning Spanish. It is super satisfying to like construct your own sentence out of words that you learned and actually have it make sense!

 

Around 9 pm is my favorite time of the day. I go talk to the Latinos that live in our house in Spanish for like and hour and it is way fun and good practice... well I should say I try to talk to the Latinos lol. I help them learn English and they help me learn Spanish.

 

I play basketball almost every day here which is awesome! It is a huge stress reliever. I see Ryan Seal and Jake Fisher all the time which is so nice. The other day me and Ryan were able to sit next to each other during a meeting and it was way nice to catch up for an hour.

 

Despite how bad my sleep schedule was before my mission, the first night I was so tired that I fell asleep right at 10:30 and woke up at 6:25 a.m. I remember that when I woke up I checked my watch and saw it was 6:25 a.m.  and I just started laughing because I thought it was hilarious that I some how just showed up to the MTC already on the standard missionary sleep schedule!! haha So thanks a ton Mom your prayers have worked.

 

Despite how much we do throughout the day the days actually are starting to go by pretty fast. Also the food here isn't bad at all. They say the average weight gain here is like 10 or 15 pounds and I can see why lol.

 

I get to go to the temple at noon today which I am so excited for. It'll be nice to leave the walls of the MTC for like 5 hours. The temple is like 7 miles away and it takes an hour to get there because of how ridiculous the driving is here haha.

 

Anyways I love you all and I can't wait to update you guys again next week.

 

Elder Lignell