Elder L. Tom Perry @ MTC

Another great week at the MTC and my how it has flown by. So Sunday night awesome fireside by branch president Seamons talking about the importance of our name tag and who we represent! Then on Tuesday the great Elder L. TOM PERRY!!!!!!! It was so awesome you could feel his spirit and you knew the second he walked in that he is a man of God. He gave a great talk on the book of mormon and how it is the greatest missionary tool that we have. He also talked about having eye contact and that you wont convert anyone by looking at the floor. So that helped me out a ton. Spanish is coming along, some days I feel like a chicken running around with its head cut off but today i feel pretty good about it. I had TRC last week were we contacted in spanish which i slaughtered and forgot like everything and i was so nervous in the lesson. This week though I feel that Elder Hale and I have improved and we will rock the our lesson. Im really glad im going to a country that doesn't require a visa, so many elders are getting reassigned to other missions because they aren't getting them back. Two Elders that are going to Spain are supposed to leave this Tuesday but neither of them have their visas so they probably will end up getting reassigned. So i totally freaked President Shumway out when he came in to the residence hall and i was running around in my feetie pj's. I told him i was trying to be bold like everyone here tells us to be and that was my way of showing it. All the Elders got a kick out of it and Elder Schiller wants to get a pair too so we can freak out all the new districts that come in. He got here the same day as me but he knows spanish some so he's leaving in 5 weeks vs my 9. Which reminds me i saw Tyrell Bailey- I high school rodeoed with him, hes going to California. If you dont remember him he is the one I shared my extra cowboy prom date with, I told the Elders about that and they though it was pretty legit. I laughed so hard when i got the letter from Rae when Holly said i was a good gurl, gosh I miss her and Launa so much, they're gonne be so huge when i get home. I just hope and pray they remember me. It sounds like Katie is doing pretty good in rodeo, tell her not to pay too much attention to the snot nosed cowboys, she really cant have a bf till im home to approve. I miss home but i really surprised that I'm not as homesick as some of the other Elders have been, I just try to use it as fuel to work harder for the people of Chile. I love this work and I'm having a lot of fun in the MTC but i really wanna get to Chile, im gonna get some sweet white slippers when i get there! Oh and ill send home some bits and spurs if they have any, elder richins also said they have raw hide reattas or however you spell it. So Ill let everyone know what kind of goodies they have and start sending things home that you want. I really cant believe how fast this week has gone by, it's good though, the harder i work the faster it seems to go. I'm trying to do my best to look at it like President Malone said, "i only have 24 months to do this", which I now realize is so true. Oh go on lds.org and watch a testimony of the bom and joeseph smith by Elder Holland, that guy rocks my world with his amazing testimony, we watched it in class and i cried like a baby. I love you all so much, trust in the Lord, he takes such good care of all of us, especially in times of trial, the bom is true out of time i gotta go! Love you all!

Love,

Elder Chance Roy Hansen