So my P-Days are on Thursdays!
Seriously we have no time to email. Please send stuff for letters so that I can
write about all of my stories that I want to tell you.
About Gavin, I thought we have
learned to never trust people with camp outs? Conner will do fine and I totally
understand what he is saying. Every single one of my teachers has said that we
have no idea what we have in store for us. My President here at the MTC is a
genius. He has the scriptures memorized and it’s amazing how much more powerful
your teaching is when you have a scripture to back up everything that you say.
I love learning SPANISH! My
companion and I are the best at it. BTW, my companion is a 6.5 handsome man
from Salt Lake and is going to play basketball on a scholarship somewhere. He
is the best companion and loves that I am his companion. The Latinos are my
favorite people and they think that I am the funniest white boy ever. I have
sung my songs for them in Spanish and they laugh at how much Spanish I know.
Cameron left the day after Conner got home!!
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| At the Phoenix Airport before flying to Argentina MTC |
Classes are awesome. Learning how
to preach the gospel in Spanish also helps with learning. Plus, we aren’t
allowed to speak English most of the time so we are learning fast. For lessons
and talks, I have to memorize everything and I don’t like that because it doesn’t
give me a chance to adapt to what the investigator needs. I sort of just
manipulate them into saying what I want them to say. The hardest thing is definitely
learning how to be myself in a new language. One of the reasons why I think I
am good at preaching the gospel is because I know what I’m saying and know that
what I’m saying is true and it frustrates me when I know how to help someone,
but don’t know the words to say it. Please send me materials to write letters
because I seriously have so much more to say but no time. We are all crammed in
here. Everything we use is broken down and besides for the temple, the MTC is
the nicest building around. I don’t know how some of these people here manage
to live their lives. It was different getting here not knowing what everyone is
saying and feeling like the minority. Whenever I think about all of my
stressful things or problems that I’m having here, I just remember what my
favorite teacher, Hermano Avila, said...This mission is not about you. So stop
making it about you. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he died for you. The
least you could do is stop worrying about yourself while you are here and worry
about God’s children who have never had the opportunity to know what you know, nor
experience what you have experienced in your 18 to 19 years of your life... I
know that I’m doing the right thing by being here and I don’t miss you. I love
it here and there is too much for me to do to miss you or want to come back.
Love you all so much!
Elder McRae
Sorry for the typos and all that...
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