Week 1! July 6-13th, 2016

Hey Family!

Week one has been pretty good. The first few days were pretty tough. Everything was so new and strange, and I was kind of sick in addition to that! I had a headache and sore throat and things. It has gone away now, but I am still so tired and fall asleep within like 10 minutes of sitting down if it is quiet.

Our trio!

My companions are awesome! I am part of a trio! It is me, CS and ZG together.  We are the only three in our residence room. We all get along really well. We are all 6'1" and like sports! They are both super patient and loving and agreeable. And very dedicated and good missionaries! Elder S is from Pleasant View, Utah, and went to Weber High. Elder G is from Layton, Utah, and went to Layton High.

The Best District! :)

My district is all male. We have 9 elders: Elder J from Holiday, Utah, Elder J from Boston, Massachusetts, Elder S from New York, Elder W from Hong Kong, Elder B from Pleasant Grove, Utah, Elder H from Chicago (He is District Leader); and then our trio! We all get along really really well. We have a ton of fun every day in class. Elder S and Elder H both learned general Korean growing up in their homes, but they are better at English than Korean. They help us all a ton with our Korean.

(Nate did not explain this picture... :)

We have taught 3 lessons so far to an "investigator," KES, and tonight is our fourth. It can be pretty difficult. We have hardly any idea what he is saying most of the time, and we just try and search up what he is saying in our Vocabulary/Phrases books and respond. Luckily he is pretty patient ;)  Korean is sooooo hard. Allie, I am starting to feel your pain. It is so different! That is the best way to describe it. We copied down Yorabun Mokchok, which is our missionary purpose, and it seriously translates so random. I am looking hard for patterns, but as soon as the sentence becomes anything more than very simple, I can't quite figure out why it is the way it is. But we are learning!

Cafeteria food!

The food here is way better than everyone says. Just saying. They have the best chocolate milk that I drink frequently. And also you can go get wraps almost everyday that are super good. And the main line has pretty good food, haha. 

The devotionals are pretty great, too! Last night we heard from Bruce C. Hafen. He talked about cowboying up and hanging on. Our testimonies are built as we are consistently true to them and from a lifetime of experience, he said. He talked about the pioneers, and how they were glad to pay the price they did to know God. So that was super neat. And at the end they played "Come, Come Ye Saints" by MoTab. It was really neat!

I haven't been able to be in the MTC choir yet; our branch wasn't invited because the main big building is under construction, so they don't have a whole lot of room. I have seen so many of my friends so far!  I see Brevin Elsholz almost every day; Christian Kelley's residence is on the same floor as mine; I have seen Trenton a few times, and I saw Colton Adams a couple of times before he left on Monday! I also have seen a few kids from Tooele. And today, Benton Tripp, Dillan Rowley, and Tytan Thurgood should be coming in!

Christian Kelley & Nate

Nate & Colton Adams

Today for p-day we went to the temple, we are doing lunch and laundry after this, then exercise, and then teaching a lesson tonight.

I have the BEST family! And thank you so much for writing to me on dearelder.com. They really mean SO MUCH to me.

I love you all! Until next week...I love you, and remember how important love is to the Gospel! It is the center of everything we should do and what God does.

Allie loved this picture at the MTC, and even named the lady in it! Nate found the picture, yay!

Nate and Trenton at the famous MTC map!

Nate & Brevin