Hola! Comin at you straight from the Guatemala MTC! I arrived on the same day as 50 other missionaries! I didn't sleep on the plane rides here, so I had been awake for 2 days at the end of day 1, which was by the way the longest day of my entire life. School 3 times in a row every single day is a little death. Buuut I'm doing great now. This place is nicer than I was expecting, nice bedrooms with my own desk, hot showers, and washers and dryers. I sleep on the top bunk of my bed. There are 3 beds in my room, so 6 people total. This week was a huge change for me. And I mean Huuuuuge, no exaggeration! The schedule here is sooo strict! There is always a specific thing planned for every minute of every day. This place actually reminds me of the T.V. show Prison Break. Ha, ha. Just the way we line up to get our food in the cafeteria and we even have our own prison groups/clicks in here! This place is surrounded by walls and barbwire fences. There's even a net above the basketball courts! There's always armed guards in front of the gates too! My companion is Elder Larsen. He's from Salt Lake and he played basketball for Highland High. It's so funny, he is like a combo of me mixed with Landon Labrum, personality and looks! I'd like to say we're the cool kids of the MTC. The view through the window of my room es muy bonito. There are buildings shooting out of the jungle! I can always hear horns going off, almost like New York. The food here is sooo good, except for the breakfast. They feed us these watery eggs and rock hard toast almost every morning. The lunch and dinner are really good though. This might be bad for me but I've had mango juice for every meal so far! It's just too good. Same with the choco cones. It's definitely tough here. We have to prepare a lesson and a talk every single week. In sacrament they call 6 random names to go up and give their talks. It's skeeeetchy. All the classes are in Espanol. I'm definitely progressing but I'm no where near fluent. We live 16 hour days up in here. My district is super cool. Everyone has their own unique personality that provides the funniness and funness. My district leader, he's my age, is really strict. I was outside of the bathroom waiting for my companero and he was like "You have to be able to see your companion at all times." To eres loooco! Playing basketball has been my favorite part. We only get 30 minutes a day but it's soooo fun. My companero y yo have been teaching a fake investigator in Espanol. His name is Brian and he's also one of my teachers. We basically just read to him out of Preach My Gospel because we aren't good enough at Spanish yet.I had to teach a lesson on Sunday and it was pretty easy. That's probably the most spiritual it's been so far. Mostly I'm just learning Espanol. I'm able to talk to the Latinos fairly easily now and it's actually really fun. At night we go down to Elder Fletcher and Elder Hill's room where our whole district chills until about 10 o clock. I've been here for a month now and... wait never mind it's only been a WEEK!!! The days go really slow, but they get faster every day as I adapt to it. I am starting to like it here more y more. There is a night club that blasts music on Saturdays, which is pretty nice because I've been hearing only church songs lately. I hear sirens about every 20 minutes which just lets me know how dangerous it is out there. Honduras is even more dangerous than here. Guuulp! I'm learning Spanish pretty quick and I really hope this MTC trains me for the field. I love my companion and my district and I'm guessing it's gonna be a sad day when we part our ways. We went to the temple today and I took some pics but I can't send them for 5 more weeks unless I somehow get the wifi password here. I love you guys and thanks for reading this (if you even got this far). Feel free to email me and send pics too if you want. Adios amigos!
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AuthorElder Christian Sullivan Archives
July 2019
CategoriesComayaguela, Honduras Mission
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