Today is my last P-Day in the MTC! YAY! I really like the MTC, but this past week is like having Senioritis. Everyone in my district is all so excited to just arrive in the field. Only a few more days! I have to be at the Travel Office here at 5 AM :( and my flight leaves at 8:40 AM. I don't know when we will be arriving at the airport on Tuesday, but we will have enough time to call home. Do you want me to call home or someone's cell phone or what? I am super excited to call home! I am super excited to ride on an airplane too! First airplane ride ever!
During my time here, I have met a few people from the Carlsbad area. There is this girl in the Bookstore here that lives in Temecula, and she said the weather is perfect all the time and the people are really nice too. I have also met a few others Elders from that area (including one in my zone!) and they said the weather is perfect, it rains like, once or twice a year and the people are super nice! I am so excited to get to Carlsbad! Another person told me, after telling him I was going to Carlsbad, that Carlsbad wasn't a mission; it was a vacation! It was really funny and just got me even more excited to get there. I am super excited to speak in Spanish too! These past few weeks, during the Progressing Investigator, while I was teaching and listening, I realized how much fun it is to be speaking and learning Spanish! I am super excited!
I don't remember what I have told you in previous emails, so hopefully this isn't a repeat of stuff you already know. Hermilo got baptized! YAY! And Hermano McKinney (Hermilo) left to go to school at BYU-Idaho :( So, there's one less teacher we have :( and Hermano Hardy got a new district and he left too :( so, yesterday we got two new teachers. Hermano Harris and Hermano Bailey. Hermano Harris served in New York where James is right now!
On New Year's Day, for the Devotional, Kelly Mills of the Missionary Department came and spoke. Him and his family are all singers, so they sung a couple songs and him and his wife gave really good talks. He quoted something from Henry Eyring that I really liked. "The call to serve is the call to change." With our missions calls, we are called to serve to change other people's lives. While changing other people's lives, our lives are also changed in the process.
The Devotional on Tuesday night was Elder O. Vincent Haleck of the Seventy. It was our last Tuesday Devotional :( :( :( His talk was really good. He talked about the Christlike attributes and how to apply them in life and in missionary work.
And that's really all that happened this week! I have really enjoyed the MTC these past two months, but I am just so excited and ready to get out into the field. I am glad there are some in my district going to Carlsbad with me. I have made a lot of good relationships here in the MTC, and it's sad to leave them all. But, we all know that we are here to serve missions and to learn about how to teach. Getting really good friendships is just one of the benefits. I have learned more in the MTC about Spanish and the Gospel than I have my whole life. I wish I would have learned more about the Gospel before my mission. There is just so much that the Gospel has to offer and if we don't look for it, we will never find it. Heavenly Father wants us to learn for ourselves. He will never give us any knowledge if we don't work for it. That works for Gospel related subjects and other subjects too, like Spanish. He won't give us fluent Spanish, unless we work for it. I am going to work my hardest to serve God for the next two years, because two years isn't a whole lot of time. I have been here for two months. Some days it feels like a lot longer and others it feels like a lot shorter. I am running out of time now, but I just want to say that I love and miss you all. I cannot wait to talk to you in a few days! Have a wonderful day!
Love, Elder Hunt
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