MTC week 1 pictures

MTC week 1

well its awesome hear the only time i have cried is because i felt the spirit really strong! mi espanol is muy mal but its come in along i guess today is pday and i got my laundry done last night so today I'm just chilling basically mi companieros name is elder beagley well since 10 o clock today I'm in a trio because a kid in our district had to go home for personal reasons he lived in the same casa as me so now theres just three of us so now we have alot of room so I'm liking that my two companieros our muy smart there super nice and they make me laugh so that's good there about 4 rooms in a casa and 4 people to every room i have already made tons of new friends mi favorito is probably elder del toro and elder carter they both wrestled in southern Utah me and the older elders are pretty tight there super cool but they leave next week they told me when i got here that every day is a week and every week is a month and oh man its true!! so the first day we got off the plane and a bus picked us up it was actually a nice bus but it was muy caliente the bus driver defiantly drove crazy though haha and it was a little bit of a culture shock we drove through the heart of the city and we pull in to this drive way thing and there's big white gates and we go in and there's all this security and stuff and it is absolutely beautiful here im blessed just to be in the ccm every day there's about 80 acres of land that's 's all surrounded by big walls with fences we got off the bus and theres was a bunch of elders and hermanas that helped us with our bags and then we got our name tags and they took us to our casa and then we went to dinner and then had the rest of the night to unpack the next day was the toughest the older elders told us if we can make it to Sunday then were good so for the first day march 5th i wrote in my journal today was my first day and it was pretty long i am happy though the hardest part for me is going to be the espanol but i know that i just need to have a good attitude and i need strive to have the spirit constantly i already want too learn the language and feel the spirit all the time and its just the first day its muy loco  its crazy i barely remember the first day i just remember i didn't hear inglesia all day long and it was loco my teacher is super cool maestra i seriously love her like i think if i would have any other teacher it would be alot harder for me shes the nicest hermana ever and she really works with me because i suck at the language haha march 6th i wrote in my journal well today was mucho mal haha very bad we taught our 1st investigator and it was very hard because i didn't understand him but i could feel the spirit so strongly we talked in espanol read out of a book most the time but defiantly the hardest part for me is when I'm teaching a lesson to the investigator and I'm not going to be able to know whats hes saying back to me i had such a love for this guy i could understand what he was feeling just not what he was saying today we got 50 minutes to work out and i played volleyball with the elders and hermanas it was super fun and good to get my mind off of things  march 7th Saturday i wrote today i did a work out with two elders elder del toro and carter and there shredded haha it was so nice it was like my get away we taught fransisco for the 2nd time and my espanol is not good but i did a good job of communicating how i feel towards him this is the most humbling thing i have ever done anyone that hasn't gone on a mission has no idea the feelings you have all day its a constant battle with your mind and with the language and trying to be obiedent and follow the rules because you will not have the spirit if you are not obedient  march 8th so i made it too Sunday it was so good we had church with are district and i couldn't understand anything in sacrament cause it was all in espanol but after sacrament we had a devotional by jeffrey r holland it was just a recording of one he talked at in the provo mtc a couple years ago but man does that guy spit some fire it got me going and made me want to be the best missionary i can i think one thing that i have defiantly learned is i don't miss anything worldly like i thought i would i have so much more important stuff that i have to worry about that i don't have time my number one goal is just too be humble and not to help my self but too have the spirit so i can help other people just in one week i feel like i have already changed for the better i miss all my family but i pray for them in all mi oracions when your praying for other people your prayers are alot more heart felt the only thing that i ask for my self is that the people i teach can feel the spirit  march 9th Monday i wrote in my journal i said i love this gospel muy mas i have been here for about 5 days now! the amount of prayers oracions i have offered is unreal i honestly just want to be the most obedient missenero i can be humbling myself is the hardest part here that's why the ccm is so hard every decision you make here is either a decision that will help you grow closer to the spirit or tear you apart from it god is loving that's for sure perfection is hard in the mission but having a good attitude and loving the people I'm around is easy for me my new word is humble hahaaha if you cant tell I wrote if i can be as humble as mi familia then i will be a good missenero we taught fransisco again tonight and it was bien i wrote out my whole testimony of repentance and then i had a latino help me translate it and the spirit was so strong there i read it to him and i just prayed that he could feel something and by the time i was done he was crying but it was all through god i had nothing to do with it the hardest part for me is when i can make someone feel that way and then they ask me stuff back and i have the spirit and have something that i can share with him but i cant cause my espanol is very bad but hey its only been a week right;) marzo 10 Tuesday i wrote tonight was the best so far we had a devotional but i didn't feel the spirit as much as other times but its okay because it was still good it rained there was like 2 feet of water every wear we had to run from the class to the casa and it was hailing  it was the best though there was lightning and thunder and it reminded me of back home everywhere was flooded so all the elders went out and were playing in the rain were not supposed to but every single person here was doing it haha i was super hard on my self today because everyone else is progressing in the language and I'm not but then i got a dear elder from millie and it basically said don't worry about the language worry about learning the gospel and she gave me bunch of scriptures that really helped i felt so much better after that and it just made me realize how blessed i am i love this gospel and i know that god knows what i need in my life  marzo 11 Wednesday i wrote well tomorrow is pday hallelujah today was a service project and we lucked out because are district got chose to welcome the new misseneros every week so that was super fun and awesome so now we don't have to do any servicio besides helping the elders and taking them to dinner and showing them to their casa and stuff so basically after 1 week im already considered an older elder haha our investigator fransisco is super que padre he he said he would be baptizmo tonight haha then after we found out he was fake but its still super cool haha i wrote I'm super disappointed in myself i suck so bad at Spanish but tonight i found out how much our teacher loves us and especially me :) I'm basically the comedian of the clasa because i suck at Spanish but its okay because I'm working my hardest and mostly just trying to learn the gospel and learn to teach with the spirit because that's the most important  this is defiantly a humbling experience but i wouldn't want it any other way this is my life and i love it and i have only been here a week i have a testimony that if we can humble ourselves and be obedient and strive to have the spirit that we will be much happier people and we will have a love for not only this gospel but for our families and we will know the true reason why were here and we will be better people because of it i thought i would hate the mtc but its the best thing for me and i need it so much in my life i love everyday that I'm here and i love mi familia and my friends very much :):):):):):) Elder Tams  ps everyone write me dear elders i get them everyday and i can check the mail when ever send me packages and stuff that's the best thing hear no more donuts mom i ate like 5 of them haha :)