Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Halfway through the Missionary Training Center! 3 weeks left!

How is everyone doing? so Yesterday we hit our half way day in the MTC! It is crazy how time flies by! its probably because we are without phones and what not. Last night at the devotional we had a speaker named James B Martino of the seventy and his talk was awesome! He had served in central America for 9 years of his life! he said the first flight there from the MTC he couldn't understand a word that the flight attendants were saying lol. he also said he was asked a question in Spanish the first night and he froze and said nothing! the question was what time is it haha. i can already imagine similar experiences happening to me the first few nights in Italy! well everything is just awesome here. I am starting to feel a bit more fluent when i speak but its not even close to how much i should know by the time i get out there!! in our classes we have been learning all sorts of grammar and such! So this week everyone in my zone found out that i hate spiders so of course they have all been catching spiders and surprising me with them. its a normal guy thing to do i guess. but anyway this bug they caught was like the size of my finger and it was so nasty! and i knew they would put it on my bed or something! so i decided to find a way to kill it..... without touching it! so the guys all had it in a bag and this Elder Kenney said he would eat it for 5 bucks!!! I called it a deal! so he ended up eating the thing like some kind of fear factor event and we all rounded up a couple bucks to equal 15 dollars! His said the only thing that was going through his head was that he had to build a huge fence in the summer for 9 dollars an hour and he figured if he could make fifteen for the bug that was no big deal!! Man the Missionaries here are awesome People! Oh and the other night we had a bunch of Nerf guns so we had this huge war!!! right in the middle of it there was this old security guard who came and some elders shot him lol! he didn't think the foam bullet war was very funny and he actually collected all of our guns lol. well no more Nerf gun fights haha! for more of the spiritual things we talked about following the promptings we have. We watched a short film about following these and how president Thomas S Monson once followed a prompting to go visit someones house so he did. he didn't know why but it turns out it was this woman's birthday and no one had said anything to her or written her any cards. the woman was so happy to have a visitor! The President Monson said admitting that he didn't know but God did! i love this story because we don't always know why we are told to do something but we know we must follow these promptings in life and we will be blessed! Ive been so blessed to be called as a servant and as a missionary for the church of Jesus Christ! I love and miss everyone i hope everyone is doing great! id love to hear from you all!

I know that Satan is good at pushing buttons.... that's something we learned about this week. and also i helped with a blessing for a girl in our district, she was really sick and dizzy and stuff so we gave her a blessing!  It was really spiritual, I just hope she has enough faith to be healed which i know she does! I don't have much time, I have to go to eat and go to the temple! love you! tell everyone hi from me!

Love - Anziano Goode

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