Week 1 in the MTC

Your packages saved my life in a way!! Haha 20 minutes into the MTC I started to get a nasty cough. Next day I had lost my voice and my throat was on fire, but it got better by the end of the day and I assumed it was a 24 hour bug till about 3am the next morning when I rushed into the bathroom and spent the next 30 minutes throwing up! Haha it sucked pretty bad and I was so weak I couldn't get out of bed when everyone else woke up so I skipped breakfast and the first 3 hours of studying before general conference but then I felt too bad for my companion so I had him carry me out of bed and help me get my suit on so we could get to the auditorium and watch conference! It's definitely been hard these last couples of days on the physical side of things, but I have been soooo blessed and I'm actually in the top two of our whole chinese district! 

We got to teach our first investigator on Friday 100%% in chinese. I was so scared, but realized my companion was on the verge of peeing himself so I told him we were going to say a prayer in chinese and that I'd prove to him the gift of tongues was real(we hadn't learned how to pray yet). I dug deep and tried to remember what Peter Murray taught me back in August and the Lord did the rest because I gave a 2 minute prayer and his faith was restored! In fact he had so much faith that we taught the whole plan of salvation in chinese and they told us that had never been done before and that the Lord must love us a lot right now!! 

My zone leaders were in the same room as Clark and Lincoln before they left so they tell me stories all the time about my boys! They actually just landed in Taiwan last night and say it's the prettiest place they've ever seen!! So I know you guys told me I wasn't allowed to look good in the MTC and I believed you until I was one of the four elders NOT wearing skinny slacks and skinny ties. Haha if you could send all my skinny ties, a couple cardigans, (arctic circle and hard rock) crew necks, a nerf basketball net(for free time), gatorades( I stole a mini fridge for "Medical purposes and it's in our closet), and a bunch of cookies my way that would be the dream! I don't expect any of those, but if you could do that, it would make this dreadful MTC sickness ex[erience a little more cheerful when I'm alone in the room being dead haha.

 I got to talk allll about my family with my room last night (especially my sisters). Gosh I love you guys so much. I still haven't cried or anything yet so we're doing good!! Thank you again for the package!! Dear Elder letters are much appreciated!! I don't have dads email so tell him to write me so I can send him some stories I couldn't tell you guys! 

The guy in the picture with me is Ai Zhang Lao or correctly translated.. Elder Love! Haha his name is Elder Alenjo and he's from Chile! He taught himself English by watching the World Cup and watching movies on the plane ride over and somehow speaks english almost better than I do!! He's seriously amazing. Now he's learning mandarin on top of the english he JUST learned and is one of the best in his district. He's also been here four weeks so that might help a bit! Whenever I need help with the language or anything really, he's there to help and always gets a laugh outta me when he tells me he's gonna be flashing all these gang signs while he's serving down in SoCal! Well I've gotta go but I'll send some pics your way! Love you a lot!!!!!!!!! PS. I did not get to sing in the choir:/ PPS. If you could send my tennis shoes that would be great. Have a killer week and I'll talk to you soon!!