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hiya momma! i absolutely love it down here in mexico in the CCM (mtc) it used to be a school and just like a year and a half ago they converted it to the mtc! i live in a casa and not an apartment which is great because then i only have to share a bathroom and a room with 3 other people instead of 5! and we don{t have lots of time to shower! haha but my schedule is pretty busy from 6:30 am all the way until 9:30 pm13 hours of nonstop doing stuff! we wake up in the morning as 6 and my room goes running to the weight room and come back at 630 then we shower and get dressed and go to breakfast. the food here is absolutely the bomb i don´t know why people have told me they don´t like it i have never had a complaint about a meal! and i haven´t had any bathroom issues because of the new diet of food so i count that as a blessing! haha but then after breakfast we go to our classroom for personal study time, we study for about an hour then our teachers come in and we work on spanish! tell Kody Coltrin that studying spanish with dad is the best thing he could possibly be doing! literally everything that we went over with dad is being used down here and you need to know how to pray like the first day you get here! funny right? dad actually knows what he´s talking about when he teaches us haha ;) ha but then after that we have additional study time in the classroom and we pretty much stay in there and study from like 730 until 12 when we go to lunch! then we come back and have individual language study without the teachers until 2. then gym time! oh man oh man do i love gym time! it is one hour of the day where i just go crazy and have tons of fun! we play cage soccer and im actually pretty good! ive scored at least one goal everytime we´ve played! we also play volleyball and basketball and all sorts of stuff its tons of fun! then depending on the day we either go do a service project, usually cleaning, or we go back to class for additional study. we study and study and study from 330 to 5 or 530 then go to dinner where we have until 630 until we have to go teach our investigator! i know that he is actually a member because i saw his garments poking out of his shirt one time so there´s a little less pressure but i still try hard to teach him. he is a great actor haha, his name is pablo escobar and he´s so cool! they say that he is going to be our night teacher once were done teaching him so i´m excited for that! my companion elder jones, and i are doing pretty well teaching him. elder jones knows absolutely no spanish so i do most if not all of the teaching, let me say that the gift of tongues is an amazing thing!! elder jones is trying really hard to get the language and i think he´s starting to get it which is good! he knows how to pray and knows how to say some phrases, he doesn´t say much when we teach, but he invites the spirit which is key to helping teach! we got pablo to pray the second time we taught him which is a huge step because everyone in our district was trying so hard to get him to pray and he said no to all of them! you should have seen how happy elder jones was when pablo said he would pray with us haha! it was amazing! also now everyone expects me and him to be like super missionaries but its all joking in good fun. my district consists of eight people counting me and were all going to lima south! its amazing because we all have super different personalities but we all connect in such a way that is just so amazing that i know our district was inspired of God to be together. oh yeah and one little thing you might want to know is that im the district leader!!! im in charge of everybody making sure they are all living the mission rules and i have to lead all ofour discussions and classes and get the mail and go to a bunch of meetings and just be in charge. it is a lot of responsibility but it is so much fun i love it! im greatful for the opportunity ive been given to serve the members of my district and help them out! they ask me lots of questions about what we need to be doing and its funny because i pretty much only know as much as them but i can tell they look up to me so i need to be obedient to the rules and be the best example that i can be for them. they are all huge examples to me!
let me introduce the members of my district
Elder Jones: my companion... he´s awesome! you can tell that he is very nervous and timid and shy but he is such a cool guy! hes from joseph utah and he likes music a lot which is good because he connected with pablo because of music! i love my companion a ton! he is also a defensive guru when it comes to any sport. hes good at defense and is fun to be around
Elder Wabel: he is from heber city utah and he played water polo, he´s 6 foot 4 and he´s awesome! hes super funny and knows what to say always and has just these huge deep thoughts. he came from a group of friends where it wasn´t necesarrily cool to be part of the church so he´s a huge example to me because of his decision to serve.
Elder denton: he is from mesa arizona! he is a pretty smart intellectual guy! he knows spanish pretty well so me and him help out the rest of the district when they have questions. he is also very athletic he plays rugby and wrestles and he´s funny. he always has a different point of view on things, he thinks of things how i never would have viewed them before and he´s great to be around!
Elder Rogers :) oh man elder rogers! he has got to be my favorite hes from utah and he´s awesome! you might have seen him at the airport he had a big tan trench coat on with big glasses! he is always just so excited and has so much enthusiasm about everything. he is also drop dead hilarious. he made us laugh so hard one time that elder wabel peed his pants a little. hes just so awesome! he has what can be described only as a spiritual swagger about him! he´s da bomb. and he´s super athletic even though he doesn´t look it. he and i run the basketball team haha.
Elder leavitt: he is from canada and he´s so cool! he loves basketball and i talk basketball with him all the time. he also has me convinced that everyone from canada is like ripped and super buff. he has big time anaconda arms and he´s what i call instead of captain america captain canada haha. it came because he was wearing a captain america shirt when we went to gym time. he´s a little quiet but he´s just awesome!
overall my experience has been great! the devotionals are great! i absolutely love Elder holland and how he talks. im excited to be out here and can´t wait to get to peru and meet and serve the people there! Thanks everybody for all the love and support! i can feel your prayers and am greatful for all of you! Keep being the awesome people you are!
Love Elder Millward
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