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Week 3 In the MTC!

This week has been really good, but I am starting to get tired of the MTC schedule and am eager to get to the Philippines. Let's see This week started of with an amazing Tuesday Night Devotional with Moms favorite Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of The Quorum of the 12 Apostles! He is such a loving man, and as soon as he walked into the room I could feel the spirit he carried with him. He talked about missionary work and its importance! It was such an amazing talk and got me absolutely pumped to get into the field.

Next up, a member of our district has sadly headed home. Elder Finch is a great great man and it was sad to see him leave, but he had some important stuff to take care of. He said he would see us in the Philippines and I don't doubt it. 

But honestly not much has happened this week. My testimony of our Father in Heaven and His Son Jesus Christ is growing exponentially, and I love it. Though in the dorms it has been getting crazy! Buzz cuts, water gun fights and much much more that I won't get into the details too much for y'alls sake haha. But there have been "Choir and The Spoken Word" concerts every night in the showers with spiritual thoughts, most of the time it is appropriate church songs, but they will have the occasional Katy Perry or Post Malone in there as well! Let's just say a bunch of 18 year old boys are starting to get bored of the MTC schedule and are finding very, very creative ways to stay occupied haha. 

Other than that Elder Cope, my companion, and I are getting to the point where we are just about able to get our points across while teaching others in Tagalog. We have been practicing with everyone all the time. We love doing it! The lessons are fun because we don't know a lot of Tagalog, so it makes us switch off teaching every sentence or so, which makes our teaching go a lot smoother actually. We are able to feel out when the other is wrapping up their thought, and when they finish the other will hop right into it almost seamlessly making it flow pretty well actually! It is fun to see the little progress we have been making with our hard work!

But that's about it. I love and miss you guys! Talk to you soon!

Elder Morgan

These pics are of the laundry room and where I look out to ponder during personal study everyday! Elder cope and I love this view because it's the only place that is quiet and peaceful during our personal study. It is actually quite hard to find quiet places in the MTC but this spot never fails.




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