Week 3 in MTC

Dear Mom and Dad,

Glad to hear you guys are doing well. Unfortunately my doctors

appointment at UVU got scheduled right in the middle of my P-day

emailing time so my companion and I came to the computers early so we

could still get some emails in. I miss you guys, and hope you are

doing well.

The MTC is like a prison, actually in prison you can have visitors so

its even worse in that sense. But Im learning so much and can feel the

spirit all of the time. Constantly, I’ve even been inspired to do

certain things and stuff and its great. Studying the scriptures is my

new favorite activity, they look like I’ve had them for years now and I’ve

got this color coding stuff going on and tons of those clear tags for

lessons and stuff and I write in them so much the margins are too

small. I’ve read probably sixty or so chapters of various books since

I’ve gotten here and they are all over the place and Joseph Smith

translation is awesome, so much more insight. Ive pretty much

memorized Abraham I’ve studied that so much and its amazing how much it

talks about temple symbolism and explains temple symbolism in that

book without explicitly saying anything. Including all the weird stuff

that grandpa even said he doesn’t get yet. Its all right there you just

have to look hard enough.

Been studying up on the plan of salvation to and the spirit has

confirmed some of my really cool theories to me and its just really

cool how everything makes sense.

Learning a lot and studying a ton. I got to hear a devotional from

Holland and Oaks to, those were awesome. Holland is crazy powerful in

person.

Oh yeah the district that I preside over is the best, I love em all

They’re all really cool and make the MTC so much more fun. It gets

pretty crazy at times haha. Theres one elder named Elder Moea'i who

reminds me a ton of Jack and he’s really funny haha. He shared a joke

with us that he came up with the other day that goes like this "How

can you know Adam wasn’t a black man?... Cuz aint no Black man gonna let

someone take his ribs" the funniest part though was that he came up

with it while watching the presentation of the endowment last friday

haha.

My zone is awesome though and X came in on wednesday and we hang out

at night with everyone so thats nice to.

Hope you guys are doing well.

Love Tay

Hey Everybody,

I dont have much time to email again this week unfortunately because I

have to go to UVU to get my pelvis and abdomen imaged in a little

while cuz of whatever the heck that thing was two weeks ago.

Im all good though. This weeks been really great. Im learning tongan

pretty well. Its going smoothly. I've taught six or seven lessons now

in Tongan and the last two were without any notes. We just had to talk

off of the top of our head. I think its going pretty well for me and

Im picking it up rather quickly. This monday we start TRC which is

teaching actual people in our mission language over the phone from

tonga, Im pretty nervous about that to be honest.

My zone is the best, they are all so much fun I love em all. My

district is awesome to I love those guys they make everything really

easy. Haha weve talked about all going in on a house to live in for

BYU when we get back, and then renting it out once we leave. We've

gotten pretty tight. I feel like I’ve known them forever. I guess thats

natural though when you spend seventeen hours a day with them for the

past what three weeks now almost.

X entered through the front gates on Wednesday into mission life and

so thats been nice to have him around. He's in my zone to so we have

the same schedule and classroom buildings and residence and stuff so

thats nice.

The provo temple is really cool. Probably one of the ugliest temples I

know of, but its actually really awesome and there’s a painting in

there of I think Moses performing an ordinance and the Tabernacle that

is really cool just to see how nothing has changed since then besides

animal sacrifices because of Christ’s Atonement and what not. Its

really cool.

Oh yeah also Tongan is pretty funny to, its soo easy to mess up and

say something thats sooo off from what you’re trying to say haha.

For example usually all of the missionaries say welcome to the MTC on

Wednesdays to the newbies but they don’t know tongan so its fun to say

other things to them like We're going to smash you and just smiling

and waving and what not. But haha So I’ve been Saying Te U Ta'e

thinking it meant that when actuality Te U Taa'i means that, and so

I’ve been telling all of the new missionaries that I’m going to take a

dump* hahaha. Also Fakalele we’ve been saying for atonement but that

actually means diarhea, atonement is Fakalelei. And one of the elders

in his lesson was trying make small talk with the investigator and

said Feimoa which means to dance, but moa is actually a really old

word for dance and now it means boyfriend or girlfriend so instead he

asked the investigator how their love life was hahahaha.

Anyway overall doing well. Having fun. How are all of you guys doing?

Love Ya'l, Tay