This Monday at 5am i leave for for the field!!! It's a 6 hour flight to DC, so wish me luck hahah. I fly out with a few of my fellow elders in my district and then we have like 20 other missionaries as well. Watch us convert the entire plane and then we could just fly it straight up towards heaven. But anyways I'm super excited to make it to the other side of the gates of the mtc and be back in the real world hahaha. No more prison food!!! Yall have no idea how excited i am to eat some real food. The moment it touches my taste buds will be glorious. In all seriousness though the MTC has been a great experience and i have grown to love my district so much and each of their unique personalities. Ill miss our little family in the MTC.
The past week we had a couple more lessons in spanish. We taught a lady named Elizabeth and the lesson went really well. She didn't talk much at all so we had to work pretty hard to get her to talk and asked a lot of questions and had scriptures to get her involved. We also taught another lady named Angela from Mexico. We were planning to teach her the restoration, but ended up taking it more into developing a relationship with God and about the Atonement. She had a TON of questions about the atonement and it was very difficult to explain some of the things in spanish. But Elder memmott and I did our best and I shared my testimony maybe 20 times with her cause I didn't know what to say some of the time. We both walked out thinking it went so rough because we got really deep into the atonement and didn't know the exact words to help answer her questions, but we got our review back and she gave us a perfect score for everything and said she felt a lot of peace and comfort and just good feelings overall, so that made us feel a lot better.
Since Elder Memmott and I are the zone leaders, this week Elder Memmott got to get to know the new districts in our zone. They are French speakers and Haitain speakers, which is so cool hahaha. They're a bunch of great guys and I'm excited for them.
We have been talking a lot with the native Spanish speaking district here at the MTC. They are seriously so funny! They teach us how to say some different phrases and slang and it's super helpful. It was also funny because one of the Hermana's and I have a mutual friend in Colorado so it was funny.
This week we also have been given the challenge to speak only in spanish. It has been so hard, and ngl we did really well for maybe the first two days but then it kinds feel apart after that. But I have noticed everyone's spanish sounds so much better. I know we have a long way to go but I'm proud of my district.
Nothing else has really going on this week, we're all just anxious to get out to the field. I can't wait to share my experiences with all you and about the people!!
PS: I know everyone knows what day it is and that you have all been anxiously waiting for this day. 20 years ago little baby Braxton was born. Yes crazy to think it's been 20 years. I'm happy today is my pday because we get to go to the temple and can do a few fun things instead of being in class all day, which is a wonderful blessing ahaha. Anyways thank you for the birthday wishes it means a lot!!:)
Here are the pictures from this week, we didn't have too many but after this weekend there will be many more I promise that will bless your eyes. SIKE I am uploading them rn and there are actually a ton so forget what i said.
1: me and Hermana Rodriguez (native speaker with mutual friend that I mentioned)
2. Just some missionary bonding with Elder Glover
3. Me working diligently in class
4 and 6: our district after 50 tries of getting photos but none really turned out but it's okay
5. District with our maestro, THE Hermano
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