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England MTC

England MTC

Hey everybody what a crazy but awesome week it has been. So first off I showed up at the Provo MTC and right when I got there I got pulled aside they told me that my visa came and that I was leaving for the Preston MTC at 4 am the next morning. 

We flew all day Thursday and showed up at the Preston MTC at about 11 am here in england so it was like 4 am at home. That makes 24 hours of traveling it was kinda ruff but at least I had Elder Albertson and Elder Balser for company. 

We got to the MTC and they let us shower and then we went straight into the lessons. Holy cow greek is just something else but I can now say that the gift of tounges is totally real. Our second day here we gave our first lesson in greek to Margerita. It was cool it was just our teacher acting as an investigator but it was still very cool. 

Room

Then we had Sunday and wow I really needed that there were no language classes but just a normal church schedule in the morning. Then a devotional in the afternoon. Then we went for a walk and as soon as we left the MTC grounds someone pulled over and started screaming at us and telling us we were crazy and swearing at us it was actually pretty funny after he drove off. We had a good laugh. Then at night we did family night and we played a game with preach my gospel. I won a bag of snickers which were really yummy.  Then we watched a church video with all the people in the MTC because there is only like 40 people here. 

Greek Name Tag

Yesterday was a pretty spiritual day and I was able to get a reaffirmation on why I am here and that I am where I am supposed to be.

It is 3:30pm here. This morning we went to the temple which was super awesome because the spirit is so strong in the temple. Then after the temple we were able to go into Chorley town. That was cool. It is really packed in the market center and there are so many people there isnt much to see but there are some cool churches. I will send some pictures. We were able to meet some members from Chorley which was cool because they were so nice to us and everyone was giving us weird looks because we were all in our mission clothes but it was pretty fun to get out into town. And yeah that is about it for the week but always remember that the Lord never gives us challenges that are to hard for us to handle.

Love,

Elder Halverson

Elder Albertson and Elder Halverson