Week 2 MTC - It's a small world and you never know who will know who.........

Well 2 weeks and I am already eager to leave the training center for Australia. Yesterday we saw a fireside by D Greg Droubay. He is in charge of a lot of the media for the church, and he showed us some "secret" stuff that is going to come out on Christmas.

The weather here in Utah is getting colder. In a few weeks there will be snow. There are orange plants growing on the mountains that make them look even more incredible.

For the most part, things here have been same old. We are studying the language hard. Last week I talked about how we were teaching a fake investigator. Well now we have a new investigator, and the old one is now our new language teacher. No one expected that. All the teachers are great.

In my last round of emails, I went over the time limit (one hour per week), and this time I am trying not to. So I am probably going to end up remembering stuff after I have written this letter. I will do my best to remember everything.

I found out a few days ago that an elder in my district, Elder Dallin Dorius, knows my aunt Verna's family. What a surprise. He is so funny, and I think we'll be friends for long after we leave the MTC.

Every day we get gym time, and a ton of people play four square. I learned how to play it and now it is my favorite thing to do during gym time. I usually get to be king at least once every day.

We got to do "service" a few days ago. We got the "fun" job of cleaning the bathrooms. Luckily I was with the sink crew. We got pretty good at it. First you have to spray this nasty chemical, then scrub, and then dump a bucket of water on all 4 sinks. We got creative with the last step. You have to try to cover all 4 sinks with one splash.

We are getting new missionaries in our district I think this Thursday. Our branch president's counselor showed us pictures of all of the new missionaries, and I recognized Sinclair Hancock from BYU Startalk. So that will be exciting.

We got to walk around the Provo Temple yesterday. It's so beautiful. And today we got to go in, and I got to see sealings for the first time. That was a neat experience.

Elder Dorius showed us a great talk called Safety for the Soul by Jeffrey R Holland. It is quite an amazing talk. It is on LDS.org. Definitely worth watching.


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Elder Jordan Andersen
DEC03 AST-MEL
2007 N 900 E Unit 19
Provo UT 84602