EMAIL: WEEK 1 MTC

WEEK 1   August 3rd 2016

Hey Family!

As you guys know I made it to the MTC safe and sound! This week has been amazing! Cant believe its been over a week now! The days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days haha. My companion is super fun, his name is Elder Miller. He's from Vernal, Utah. We are always giving eachother funny mexican nicknames. When we got here on last tuesday the language hit all the new elders like a brick wall. No one here at the MTC speacks very good english at all. We all thought the food was so good but then after a couple of days we figured out why all the other elders and sisters were sticking to nuteala on toast haha. The cooks here dont really know how to cook anything other than mexican food so this morning we had fajita chicken and bell peppers for breakfast. It rains here every. single. day. at three on the spot. The language is coming along pretty nicely, its really hard to speak fluently but i can have a conversation, by the second day we were praying in spanish! The fist couple of nights were really hard to sleep through cause all we hear is gunshots and fireworks and sirens. I also didnt sleep well cause its a new bed and my feet hang off the bed so i just put them through the little square that the latter for the bunkbed. We get active time every day. On Friday we got our first active time so me and my companion went and found the weights, tyler would have been proud of me haha. My short little companion wasnt so exited for it but his was more that happy to come with me and get gainz. Sunday was interesting. Each of us have to prepare a five min talk in sanish every week cause the talks for sacrament are picked by random. Our district has had the hardest time with spanish because we dont have any latinos or sisters, just elders. Last night was a super spiritual experience.Three elders in our district have been having a hard time with feeling comfort and having a hard time with homesickness so we as a district came together in one room and gave blessings to them. It was so neat. The whole room just felt like it lit up. 12 elders standing in a circle, all holding the priesthood and giving a blessing to three people that we love and care for. It was quite a testimony biulding experience.

Im running out of time but I thought id let all of you know that im ding great and that i feel so comforted knowing that what im doing is what im suppose to be doing. Love you all! thanks for all your love!

P.S thanks for the package. My companion and the other elders in my room had a little fiesta.

Love you lots!

Elder Marz

Here are some pictures

Our Elder Marz and his MTC companion Elder Miller

At the SLC Airport. All heading to the Mexico MTC :)

Elder Marz (center) and his district (all elders).