Elder Vogt's Nicaragua Mission: 1st Week at the MTC

Hey everyone, I'm here at the MTC. So yeah my P-day is Wednesday, at least for the next 5 weeks. Man it's only been a week, but it's felt like half my mission has already gone by. Okay maybe not that bad, but at least a couple of months.

So to recount the week, I arrived at Wednesday, having to wake up early in the morning at 3:30am for the plane ride, so I had a 16 hour day of completely new everything on only 3 hours of sleep (including the plane ride.) It was hard to stay awake. But I got my companion and my district and on that day started learning Spanish.

So as some of you may have heard, they start you in on a foreign language instantly. Like that first night we got in our class, and I'm in the beginner class, So our teacher. Hermano Cook, is only teaching in spanish. He is only supposed to speak in Spanish except for a couple small instructional words. Like if you say Que Significa then one of the words he said, he'll tell you the english translation.

Side note, these computers won't let you right click words to fix them with spell check. So excuse all my lower case proper nouns.

But yeah so I've gone from knowing no Spanish, to having taught 4 lessons only in Spanish to our investigators. It's really hard, but we have super great resources, and a wonderful teacher. On another side note, Brother Cook is 21 and Very White. So he gets our struggle. He had to go through the same thing.

On both Sunday and last night we have had devotionals given to us by people. But where as the past 2 weeks 3 Apostles have spoken, we had the President of the 70, and one of the Branch Presidents here.

Well my laundry is almost done so I need to move on to my other emails.

Sincerely

Elder Vogt