I have lived in the MTC for almost a month! It's pretty dang crazy that I haven't moved out of like a 1/2 square mile for that long! Life is good though, this past week was somewhat grueling just because I've been way tired for some reason. Chinese is still going pretty dang well though! This past Sunday I bore my testimony in Chinese, and I seriously impressed myself. The gift of tongues is zhenda (real). MTC food is beginning to quickly become less and less appealing so if anyone wants to send me food/treats.... So a quick spiritual experience for all y'all. There's a certain elder that I'm roommates with who has been extremely negative and has been complaining a ton and it's really annoying and detracts from the spirit. The rest of my district has been trying to help him out this whole time, but he doesn't take our advice which is again, very frustrating. Anyways, Elder Duffin and I are zone leaders now so we get to conduct interviews with people. So last Friday I was so fed up with this Elder and I was ready to just speak my mind to him and tell him that he needs to pull his crap together. So I brought him into this room and I was pretty dang annoyed with this guy, but I just looked at him and couldn't say what I was going to say. I then proceeded to bear my testimony to him that I know why I'm here (to serve other people and the Lord), and I promised him that if we all learn to forget ourselves, then the Lord will take care of us. The spirit was real real, and tears were shed lol. I don't know why I said this and I don't know if it'll solve anything but I seriously felt like a tool in both slang terms and spiritual terms. I felt like a tool (in slang terms) because I what I wanted to say was gonna be pretty rude and wouldn't have solved anything. I felt like a tool (spiritually) because I felt like God was working through me to tell this Elder things he needed to hear. The MTC is awesome. Other than that, nothing crazy has happened! This Wednesday we get like 26 new missionaries in our zone and it's gonna be wild! Elder Duffin and I get to orient (or is it orientate?) them so that'll be fun! Love all you guys and I love hearing from you! Have a swell week!
Elder Porter in the "Sacred Grove" behind the temple where we take lil' naps during temple walk.
For my BYU friends - They're in the other Mandarin speaking zone and I hung out with a couple of them before the mish but we're all real homiez now!
This is Elder Parker from Australia! He is literally the coolest guy I have ever met. He just left the MTC, but we'll see each other in Taiwan! My tie is really fat.
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