MTC | Week 1 & 2

Miss and love everyone so much! Hope you are all doing great, I have been doing amazing and I'm learning so much. I feel like the more I put into my experience here the more I get out of it. One thing that I've learned from experience in being here is that you can't put a crumb on the throne of God without getting a whole loaf of bread back. It's really hard to explain how giving up so much can bring so much happiness, but I have found so much peace and happiness in aligning my will with Heavenly Father's. I have one companion and his name is Elder brown. We room with three other guys in the MTC. We are all in the same district and have the same schedule, so we have really come close these past two weeks! The food has been good to some and not so good to others. We have all had some really good laughs. Even though not everything is easy, I've found that when I turn outwards when I naturally want to turn in towards myself that life is so much more enjoyable. Even if there is a good reason that I am angry, when I turn outwards and look to help someone else, and forget about myself I am way more happy than when I sit and brew up anger or contention inside me. I've found that when I forget about my needs and wants, and lose myself in the service of others I am able to find myself and who I want to become. Don't even know where to start with what you guys want to know, it wasn't to let you all know that I'm not suffering in here, even though it is hard work and I'm tired all the time, I have gotten so much more out of this than I would have expected. This next Monday I have to be up for my flight to DC at 2:30 am. We go to Minneapolis and then to Washington DC, I'm super excited, we get in around 2:30pm.