Hey Family and Friends!
Oi! Como vai!? Thats about all the Portuguese I know... haha
I sent you a letter on my second day here, but if you didn't get that
here's the scoop:
I will be here for 6 weeks, and if my visa hasn't come by then I'll be
reassigned somewhere stateside. My appoximate departure date (for whereever I'm
going) is August 12th. So far, only one Elder in the last 2 districts to leave
has gotten his visa before being reassigned. The people being reassigned are
going all over the place in the US, so I have no idea where I'll be.
Sorry I haven't email for 9 or 10 days, our P-day is on friday, but the
first friday that I was here (I got in on wednesday, July 3rd) we didn't get our
P-day because we didn't really have any laundry to do and the was "not a need to
prepare or recover from anything." I would disagree, because the first couple
days were crazy! After a flight delay and then having to borrow a stranger's
phone to find my cousin, I arrived at the Missionary Training Center where I got
my badge and schedule and put in a room with the 900 other missionaries that
arrived that day, the biggest arrival group in MTC history (this week was about
700 and traditionally they were more like 400). After that we went to our
classroom to meet our district and our teacher. If I can figure out how to
attach pictures before my time is up, you'll be able to see all of them. On the
4th of july we watched the movie 17 miracles at night and then got ice cream and
watch the fireworks at the stadium of fire (from the MTC). Other than that, the
days have all been pretty typical.
My companion is Elder Andersen from Blackfoot, Idaho. He's a great guy,
fresh out of high school with an enthusiasm for missionary work. We've been able
to work well together. Surprisingly, it hasn't been that weird or hard adjusting
to having someone with me 24/7. My district hase 6 elders, including myself, and
we are all squeezed into a room that was built for 4 people. That means that I
have 1 drawer and half a closet for all my clothes, so I store most everything I
have in my suitcases under my bed.
A typical day at the MTC is wake up, shower and get ready (no time to
exercise because the line for the showers is too long), go to breakfast, then go
to our classroom for personal study, then we do more studying, teach our
"investigator," "Amadeu" (in portuguese!) then lunch. Then we come back to the
classroom for more studying, then dinner, then our teacher teachers us for a
couple hours (Brother Durfee, who served in Brasilia 2 years ago. He's awesome),
then more studying, then we go back to our dorm and iron our shirts and read our
scriptures and go to sleep. So basically we live in our classroom on the 3rd
floor of 18M for more than 8 hours every day. But time flies when we're
studying, and there's more to learn than we have time for. For the first couple
days we didn't get any gym time but recently we have, so its nice to be able to
get out of the classroom.
My time is running short and I have yet to add pictures, so if you have
anymore questions, send them to me through Dear Elder (that is the best way to
contact me for the next 5 weeks, I get them the day of and I can write letters
at night, sooo yeah, I'd like to hear from anyone and everyone!) (I'll reply to
everyone's individual emails by letter, since I'm out of time!)
Overall, I really do like it here, but I'm just anxious to be out in the
mission field!
Tchau!
Elder Carr
"Perfection. Let's Go To Work!"
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