3rd MTC Letter

Mom. Real quick. It's technically p-day right now just cuz they give us a little extra time today to write and email cuz we have service during email time on real p-days. I need a watch. I didn't even think about it beforehand, but i mucho need one if that's possible. I also need a backpack. I would buy one from here, but it only has a shoulder strap. I want both straps so I can wear it like a backpack. Just not too big. If you can't find one, don't worry. Thank you so much for all the letters, they are awesome and I'm doing my best to answer all of them back but it would be so much easier to answer back to just one a week from you guys. Individual letters, I mean. I have enough time to write to both of you, but just one letter a piece please haha. I also want to let you know that I get to call you from the airport. I don't know which airport. I leave from here at 8:30, fly to Georgia, then to Peru. I'm not sure when I call you, but be expecting a call on Wednesday, November 3rd. Oh yeah and Richard G. Scott spoke to us on Tuesday! It was so amazing!!!! I wish I had time for details, but just know that it was awesome. He exercised his authority of apostleship and blessed the whole crowd with the gift of tongues. Needless to say, I'm not worried about spanish anymore. I love you all. Elder Emett

2nd Letter from MTC

Kolby drew some great pictures that I need to scan ad put on here. Maybe I will get to it someday. In the mean time, here's his 2nd email letter:
Mom

I'm so glad everything is going so well! I get letters every day and I'm allowed to read them every day, but I can only write back and email on P-days. Every tuesday is a P-day for me here, but it might be different when I go to peru in a week hahahaha. I'm super stoked Zac carved a pumpkin for me! I think about that guy so much. I miss him. I'm glad the primary program went so well, and I know dad will do amazing in his new calling! I'm gonna send you a letter today with a check in it i need deposited along with the check from the Otts. Could you please tell them THANKS!!! It's so hard to write everyone. Speaking of everyone, the thank-you cards I wrote are all in the back pocket of the passenger seat in your van. I'm stoked Ben and Laura are still getting along, I miss both of them a ton haha. I got a letter from Laura this week and I just wrote her back today. Tell Ben I give him full rights to reading that letter himself if he feels so inclined. I can't think of much else to say right now except for I love it here. I have never felt the spirit so strongly in my life. Every time I teach the story of the restoration of the gospel, I cry. Joseph Smith was telling the truth. I love my district so much. We are so much closer than I every imagined us being. We have district prayer and story time every single night and it has made us inseparable. We are all going to the Lima CCM together which is good. I'm a little scared to go, but I know if I couldn't do it, then the Lord would not send me there. Please tell Ben to start preparing now. Tell him to mark his scriptures in a way that he can easily find scriptures he is looking for. Tell him to keep on keepin on with spanish. I don't remember if he is still taking it, but tell him that I took a year of French when I was a sophomore and it has helped me more than I ever imagined it could. I love you all. I miss you all so much. I have the family picture up on my desk and everyone says, "Woah! Big Familia!" I'm so proud of you all for doing so good right now. Tell all the in-laws and little kids and Branson I say hola.

Elder Emett

First Letter from MTC

Hey Family!!

I am having the time of my life here! The MTC is so much better than I expected it to be. Everyone here is nice and full of the spirit. The spirit of all the meetings is so strong it's hard to sit still. After you dropped me off I went and got all my new spanish books and meal card and stuff then went to my dorm for a few minutes to put stuff away. Immediately after that, I was in our designated classroom (barely big enough for fifteen people) and started studying spanish. The teachers are awesome! I met my companion as soon as he showed up. His name is Elder Norman. He is from Eagle Mountain, Utah. 5'10. Skinny. Very easy to get along with, and he knows why he is here. No one ever told me this, so I will tell you in case you don't know. The MTC is organized by districts and zones. My district includes ten (now nine, one Elder went home the 2nd day) Elders who all got here the same day as me, all called to serve in the Lima, Peru mission. All nine will be leaving the Provo MTC on November 3rd, just like me. Our zone consists of 3 different districts I think. Everyone in the zone is going to a spanish speaking mission. Half of them leave tomorow and turn us into one of the smallest zones in the MTC. Of everyone in my district 3 of us are going to the North mission - Elder Franks, Elder Hendricks, and I. Three to the west mission- Elder Rowley, Elder Kennington, and Elder McQuoid, and three to the central mission- Elder Lieshman, Elder Telaroli, and my companero Elder Norman. The food here isn't terrible, but I don't like it. A lot of Elders get sick here and I blame it on the food. Sorry it just sounds like I'm rambling on but I have so much to say and only fifteen minutes left of computer time for another week. My schedule is starting to become a routine. I wake up, pray, shower, get dressed, go to the classroom for personal study, breakfast, back to the classroom to hear from a spanish teacher, lunch, back to the classroom for four hours of personal, companion, and language study, dinner, back to the classroom for three or so hours of lectures from a spanish teacher, mostly talking in spanish, plan for the next day, back to the dorms, write in my journal, pray, sleep, repeat. It sounds so boring, but it's so excellent! I was called to be the district leader on the second day here. That means I conduct all the district meetings and I go to tons of meetings about leadership and stuff on sundays (without my companero). I personally interview all the senior companions every sunday, also. I love being the district leader! Mom- read D&C 84:80. This is going to sound so stupid coming from me, but SEND LETTERS! Letters are the missionaries source of fuel out here. The spirit provides the real energy, but the letters definitely have a boost effect so don't be scared to send me a little letter. I'm so sorry my p-day wasn't until today or I would have written you a lot sooner. I can only write letters on p-days (tuesdays here) and I will write you guys a letter with everything I forgot in this email. Tell the family I love them. It's kinda hard to see how much I care about you guys when you're right there, but it's so easy here. I pray for you in spanish every night haha. Tell Beckham happy birthday and tell Scoot I will be in Peru on his birthday. Tell Jake he would be the oldest looking kid here. I love you all. -Elder Emett