Elder Dallin Espiritu: Week Three in the MTC

July 31, 2019

What's up everyone!

This week was a lot of language study even more than last week. We started immediate core which is a huge step up from basic core. We're learning how to construct sentences which is sweet. But it's still pretty mahirap (difficult). I love it.

The teachers for our district are so helpful. We have 3 teachers. Bro Ballon, Bro Sulestre, and Sister Lapay. They're all so kind and helpful. Bro Ballon is super blunt which is great cause it helps me learn a lot better hahaha

I really like our teachers. Our district are all getting along well. We're basically with each other 24/7. I'm making a lot of new friends here!

The senior LTM's (language training missionaries) are done with the MTC and left to go to the field today.There was a lot of Senior LTM's I looked up to that have help me a lot. So because they're leaving us Junior LTM's are becoming the Senior's. I'm so pumped.

Throughout the week I sometimes get discouraged about the language. Because of that I would get negative and hard on myself. One day during my personal scripture study I was still discouraged. I opened up my scriptures to a random page in The Book of Mormon. I picked a random verse. The scripture I pointed at was Alma 46:8 "Thus we see how quick the children of men do forget the Lord their God, yea, how quick to do iniquity, and to be led away by the evil one."

This was a huge eye opener to me. We all need to continue to remember our Heavenly Father and know He's watching over us. It's easy to get distracted in life and forget what our purpose is and let satan lead us astray, but we need to stay faithful to our loving Heavenly Father. As we continue to be positive and remember our Heavenly Father, especially when we're sad and discouraged He will send His love and comfort to us.

Just wanted to end with that. I love you guys! I hope everyone is doing alright ;)

Ingat!
-Elder Espiritu