Week 3!

Hey guys:

   My hands are really cold, so it is hard to type fast and accurate, especially because the more I learn spanish, the more I forget how to spell in English. It is funny because there is no caffeine here.
    Elder maeser in our district has weekly imports from his family of mountain dew, and it is like gold here at the MTC. Not once have I seen any rolled up sleaves, that's just not what you do here, and your not cool if you do do it. Lol. 
   A lot of missionaries here are very talented. They come from doing all sorts all college sports, and playing the piano their whole lives.. some are extremly good at violin. It's also funny because fashion doesn't exist here, besides how cool someones watch and tie are. Everyone looks exactly the same. Someone who was really cool or hipster before, you couldn't tell now. Also, the longer you are at the MTC, the cooler your are, and in a lot of ways, the older you are even though I'm older than half the people here. the fact that they have like 1 week on me makes them older and more wiser. 

    I have 4 investigators, one dropped :(, but one is going great, one is alright and one doesn't have much time. These are fake investigators though; but they feel real. Everytime you go into their room,  there is a lot of pressure to speak spanish perfectly. We are learning indirect object pronouns and direct objects right now in spanish ( for those who want to know). Its also funny because all the songs in the spanish hymn book are unknown to us, so we only know like 3 songs, and you sing two every day. There is a guy in our disrtict though who only reads his spanish hymn book. He's bad in Spanish, but he knows his hymns. 

   Every day when we go to our activities at 6 in the morning, its like in the 30's or something here, because my head after my shower is like an ice cube, which then cools my whole body. It is getting very cold here, but it hasn't snowed yet. The dear elders you guys send are great, but don't feel any pressure to write every day. The longer I'm here at the MTC, the less letters everyone gets. Someone got 8 though last night which is a record for us. Companion inventories are very awkward. especially with my companion. We are doing alright. but he expects way to much of himself. He always has his nose in his notebook, but in reality he is listening to us talk and make conversation in spanish. There is a lot of tension right now in our zone on who is going to be the next zone leaders. There are two per zone and they have to be companions. Everyone says it is going to be me and Holman, but I wish it wasn't yet. 

    The older district is leaving sunday and the other older district doesn't have much time left. which leaves us. Im so glad that Im reading the book of mormon again. I understand and learn so much from it now. I wish i could go back in time and re-teach my sunday school class all the stuff I have learned. I never realized how important it is to be reading the BOM. I go to the story about twice a week and get 160 flash cards. Every word that I don't know, I write it down and then put it on a flash card. So I'm shooting up in the class in regards to spanish. I feel bad though because some people are really struggling. Every other day we do this thing called story time. Its where our district tells stories and we laugh. it is very interesting. It's a good time to let our any anger or stress that you have too. Two people said that without story time, they would have left. I dont think I have stressed.

 How fun and awesome and IMPORTANT winning soccer is to our zone. Since we are doing district vs district, we take 15 minutes before the game to plan our strategy. We are all trying our hardest, and it gets real our there fast. During our sunday and tuesday devotionals, when the time is like 7:00 there are watches beeping everywhere, since the whole MTC is in one room. it is like a bomb of beeps going off. I think it is hilarious. For dinner the other day we had Navajo tacos. I think it is ironic that when we would have the missionaries over for dinner,. we would make navajo tacos and now I'm the missionary having them, but they are very good here. 

   The MTC doesn't serve anything spicy ever. even when it says hot wings. It's just so lame not even sweet and sour just fake sauce, but it's all good. I'm curious how people are doing from our ward. 

 Is it raining all the time there? It rains every other day here but then becomes sunny again. I do not like cold and everyone in my district insist on having the windows open. I hate it,  I dont know how these guys are going to stand Mexico. haha. Our personal time after each day is spent running around the dorms playing soccer, basketball, pelt ball, watergun fights, and telling storys. This all happens in the halls and dorms, so it is wild. No one ever obeys the 10:15 quit time and definitly not the 10:30 lights out. People go to bed at like 11:30 here every night. I dont know how they do it. I occasionaly will stay up talking but I always pay for it during every class and devotional. I can't remember the last time I didn't sleep through the tuesday wokshops. The temple was great today. we got to help fold the temple clothes. I saw Eric hosting. I think he leaves this sunday for 40 hours of travel time to africa. I guess thats all about i have to this time. Just make sure that you send me people address's have ellie collect them all on facebook and send them to me. I would love more people to write.I love you bYE!!  - Elder Ordway