Elder Bowen is serving in the Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission. He is teaching in the Spanish language.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Last email from the MTC!

Hola! This week has been a pretty good week.  It seems to be going by kinda slow though, but that is kind of expected when it is impossible to not count down a little bit.  I dont have my travel plans again, but I will tell you when I call so you can follow it if you want.  This week was great though overall.  Monday we committed our progressing investigator to baptism so that was good, and we have been having our best lessons lately.  Only one more lesson with him before we go.  Tomorrow is technically our Preparation day, but since our email is scheduled for today we are doing it during our break from infield orientation.  But to continue on with the week.  Wednesday was our hosting day.  That was tons of fun.  I waited a while until I saw a gold Lexus.  Sure enough it was Ryan, and I had to chase him all the way down, because they told him to go to the end.  It was awesome.  I met his brother, mother, and father.  Then I took him in.  He seemed pretty excited and I see him everywhere now, along with Elder Pugh.  When I got back I just picked an opened space and a white Yukon drives up.  Through the glass I see some hands waving so I think, great they are excited to be here.  The door opens and Sister Joost gets out.  We took a couple pictures and everyone said their goodbyes and me and this Elder from New Zealand took Sister Joost to the Sisters to be taken care of.  So that was all exciting.  I proceeded to host 2 more Hermanas and then I was off to gym.  So I guess you can say that the hosting day was a successful day.  Yesterday was a good day too, but it seemed to drag on forever.  One of our teachers, Hermano Davis, he is getting married on August 4th.  He tells us nothing at all about his life, but we all really admire him and want to get to know him.  Whenever we would bring it up he somehow successfully would change the subject.  Well so we somehow found out his fiances name and we wrote proabably 200 girl names on the board before he got there and wrote next to it, Hermano Davis is getting married to... So he told us her name was up on the board twice.  He actually told us and erased all the names but hers.  He erased the first one, and then turned to us and we were super tense.  He talked for a little bit, then turned around to erase the other one, and we had put it on the board in permanent marker, so when he did it, it didnt come off.  It was SOOOOO great.  We all started busting up laughing and he kept saying, ¿Como Saben?Diga me! it was so funny.  For translation that means how do you know, tell me.  He kept bringing it up and we changed the subject just like he does to us all the time.  It was a great class, and it was fun to joke around with him.  So that actually happened Wednesday.  We have had a lot of fun with him.  Today has been all about in field orientation.  We have all been in the main building with everyone else leaving in the next week, and we are talking specifically about stuff we dont get in class, and we learn a little more about what the field will be like.  It has been pretty good overall.  It should last all day, so we will be really busy.  Tomorrow we get to start packing and to do our finally laundry and whatnot.  Just get ready to leave.  It will be a crazy day tomorrow.  Even crazier will be Tuesday waking up at 3 AM, but I am really excited to get going.  Sunday we will sing in sacrament and the rest will be normal.  Monday we have class, but if there are anythings we need to do, we are allowed to go out and do it when our teacher says we can.  Then that night as a zone we will sing Para Siempre Dios Este Con Voz, which is the Spanish God be with you till we meet again. Im pretty sure thats what it is called.  Its a pretty cool thing.  We have already sang it 7or 8 times since we got her to people leaving.  Some full districts, and some missionaries just going to different MTC´s.  Finally its our turn.  I´m greatful for the opportunity I have had to be in the CCM and all that I have learned here to prepare me for the rest of my mission.  Next you´ll hear from me will be in the airport, and then when I´m in Florida.  I´ll let you know how humid it is, haha.  se que el evangelio de Jesucristo es verdadero.  La iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días es la iglesia de Dios, y que José Smith fue un profeta y tenemos un profeta hoy, Thomas S. Monson.  I love you all and I cant wait to go.  Love you bye!

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